Pumps is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUMPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PUMP, to propel liquid by a motor
• force (liquid, gas, etc.) to move by or as if by means of a pump
• move in spurts as though driven by a pump
• fill (something such as a tyre or balloon) with liquid or gas using a pump
• shoot (bullets) into (a target)
• very enthusiastic or excited
• move vigorously up and down
• apply and release (a brake pedal or lever) several times in quick succession, typically to prevent skidding
• try to elicit information from (someone) by persistent questioning
NOUN:
• a mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move liquids, compress gases, or force air into inflatable objects such as tyres
• an instance of moving something by or as if by a pump
• an active transport mechanism in living cells by which specific ions are moved through the cell membrane against a concentration gradient
• a sports shoe; a plimsoll.
• a light shoe for dancing.
• a court shoe.
• a man's slip-on patent leather shoe for formal wear.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cause to flow by means of a pump (a device for moving fluids)

Words related to PUMPS

pump10 pumped13 pumping14

Words that contain PUMPS

repumps13 footpumps18 overpumps18 sandpumps16 micropumps20

How to use PUMPS in a sentence

• Soon the pumps were choked and could be no longer worked.
• Pumps, air, proper proportions of, single and double acting.
• There were fields of alfalfa, fruit-trees, corrals, windmill pumps, irrigation-ditches, all surrounding a neat little adobe house.
• He is neatly dressed, and has pumps with bows on his feet.
• It was dark, but certain sensations and the splashing of his pumps warned him that the water was deeper in there.
• The mercury pumps now in use, whether those of Geissler, Alvergniat, Toepler, or Sprengel, although possessed of considerable advantages, have also serious defects.
• We left the ropes for the pumps and the pumps for the ropes.
• The pumps are now reversed and the process of exhaustion begins.
• The bicycle pump is the best known of all compression pumps.
• The pumps were manned, and Captain Kean, and with every man not working the pumps, with feverish haste shifted the cargo to the starboard side and aft.
• For some time the pumps were kept going, but the water gained on them, and all hands had to take to the rigging.
• It is tapped at the points where are situated the several sets of hydraulic pumps.
• When Pumpmen are sufficiently numerous to admit of working the pumps with one-half their force, they should compose two divisions, to be called 1st and 2d Pumpmen.
• Where these can not be had, and springs or streams are not at hand, wells and pumps must be provided, in as much convenience as the circumstances of the case will admit.
• As he came over the rail he cast a glance aloft at the tall masts, and, next, at the pumps.
• The water is served by three large steam fire pumps, which throw the water above the roof.
• Let his crew be as willing as they would, there was no doubt that this murderous work at the pumps could not be kept up for a voyage to England.
• For two hours the crew worked at the pumps, taking a spell of ten minutes every half-hour, Otway, the American captain Burr, and Mr.
• The leak has taken up, and you can go on deck and see your husband working at the pumps like a number one chop Trojan.
• At the Empire shaft, in the Schuylkill coal region, there is a very fine pair of these engines, with 80 inch cylinders, working 24 inch pumps.
• From the center of the cross head, a link runs to the main pump-bob, which operates a double line of 16 inch pumps, 10 foot stroke.
• All were sent to the pumps, for the water in the hold was rising with ominous rapidity.
• Her seams opened, and she was making more water than could be controlled with the pumps.
• Though the sea went down even more quickly than it had arisen, the pumps kept us fairly busy.
• How could they get the water out? Pumps were of no use.
• The point of a rock was reported to be through the well, rendering the pumps useless.

Similar words containing PUMP without suffix s

pump10 pumped13 pumper12 repump12 pumpers13 pumping14 pumpion13 pumpkin17 repumps13 footpump17 overpump17 pumpable16 pumphood18 pumpings15 pumpions14 pumpjack27 pumpking19 pumpkins18 pumpless14 pumplike18 repumped15 sandpump15 footpumps18 micropump19 overpumps18 pumphoods19 pumpjacks28 pumpkings20 repumping16 sandpumps16 pumphouse18 micropumps20 overpumped20 wampumpeag22 pumphandle20 pumphouses19 overpumping21 pumpkinseed22 wampumpeags23 pumphandled22 pumphandles21 pumpernickel24 pumpkinseeds23 pumphandling23 pumpernickels25

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