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Pump can be a verb or a noun.
pump used as a verb:
- To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
"I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes." - (often followed by up) To fill with air.
"He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres." - To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
"I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race." - To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
"I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through." - To be going very well.
"The waves were really pumping this morning."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
pump used as a noun:
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
"This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute." - An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
"It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres ; he did 50 pumps of the weights." - A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
"This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one." - A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
"She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike." - The heart.
- A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
- A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes.
"She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps." - A dancing shoe.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is pump?
- Verb usage: I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
- Verb usage: He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
- Verb usage: I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
- Verb usage: I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
- Verb usage: The waves were really pumping this morning.
- Verb usage: Last night's party was really pumping.
- Noun usage: This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
- Noun usage: It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres ; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
- Noun usage: This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
- Noun usage: She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
- Noun usage: She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pump are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pump, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
