Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [puhmp uhp]
- /pʌmp ʌp/
- /pʌmp ʌp/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [puhmp uhp]
- /pʌmp ʌp/
Definitions of pump up words
- noun pump up an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes. 1
- noun pump up Engineering, Building Trades. a shore having a jackscrew in its foot for adjusting the length or for bearing more firmly against the structure to be sustained. 1
- noun pump up Biology. an animal organ that propels fluid through the body; heart. 1
- noun pump up Cell Biology. a system that supplies energy for transport against a chemical gradient, as the sodium pump for the transfer of sodium and potassium ions across a cell membrane. 1
- verb with object pump up to raise, drive, etc., with a pump. 1
- verb with object pump up to free from water or other liquid by means of a pump. 1
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Origin of pump up
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English pumpe (noun); cognate with German Pumpe, Dutch pomp
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Pump up
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pump up popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pump up usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pump up
verb pump up
- activize — to make active
- blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.