Usually means: Device for moving or compressing fluids.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pump: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pump, pump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pump, pump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pump, pump: Wordnik
  7. pump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pump: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. pump: Wiktionary
  10. pump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pump: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pump: Dictionary.com
  14. pump (1), pump (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pump (Water), Pump (album), Pump (disambiguation), Pump (film), Pump (skateboarding), Pump (water), Pump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pump: Rhymezone
  20. pump, pump (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pump: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pump: Free Dictionary
  24. pump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pump: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. pump: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pump: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pump: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. pump: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pump (v.): Cats
  2. PUMP: Acronym Finder
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  4. pump: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PUMP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pump, pump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pump: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. the pump: Urban Dictionary
  6. Pump: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pump: Body Building
  2. Pump: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. PUMP: The Home Appliance Page
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Pump: Latitude Mexico
  8. PUMP: Power Engineering
  9. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
noun:  An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
noun:  A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
noun:  (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
noun:  (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
noun:  (US, slang) The heart.
noun:  (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The vagina.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
verb:  (transitive) To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
verb:  (obsolete) To put (a person or part of the body) under a stream of water from a pump, as a punishment or as a form of medical treatment; to force a pump of water upon or on someone.
verb:  (transitive) To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang) To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
verb:  (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
verb:  (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
verb:  (bodybuilding) To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
verb:  (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
verb:  (US, intransitive, slang) Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
verb:  (sports) To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
verb:  (British, slang, vulgar) To pass gas; to fart quietly.
verb:  (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
verb:  (colloquial) To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
noun:  (British) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
noun:  (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
noun:  A dancing shoe.
noun:  A type of shoe without a heel.

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