How many syllables in Pump
Word
Pump
How many syllables?
1 Syllable
How it's divided?
pump
Definition
- n. - A low shoe with a thin sole.
- n. - An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or
transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston
working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly
placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven
through them by the action of the piston.
- v. t. - To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
- v. t. - To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means
of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
- v. t. - Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money,
by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in
order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
- v. i. - To work, or raise water, a pump.
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