ALL meanings of pumping
pump·ing
P p - noun pumping 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 pumping 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 pumping Biology. an animal organ that propels fluid through the body; heart. 1
- noun pumping 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 pumping to raise, drive, etc., with a pump. 1
- verb with object pumping to free from water or other liquid by means of a pump. 1
- verb with object pumping to inflate by pumping (often followed by up): to pump a tire up. 1
- verb with object pumping to operate or move by an up-and-down or back-and-forth action. 1
- verb with object pumping to supply with air, as an organ, by means of a pumplike device. 1
- verb with object pumping to drive, force, etc., as if from a pump: He rapidly pumped a dozen shots into the bull's-eye. 1
- verb with object pumping to supply or inject as if by using a pump: to pump money into a failing business. 1
- verb with object pumping to question artfully or persistently to elicit information: to pump someone for confidential information. 1
- verb with object pumping to elicit (information) by questioning. 1
- verb without object pumping to work a pump; raise or move water, oil, etc., with a pump. 1
- verb without object pumping to operate as a pump does. 1
- verb without object pumping to move up and down like a pump handle. 1
- verb without object pumping to exert oneself in a manner likened to pumping: He pumped away at his homework all evening. 1
- verb without object pumping to seek to elicit information from a person. 1
- verb without object pumping to come out in spurts. 1
- idioms pumping prime the pump, to increase government expenditure in an effort to stimulate the economy. to support or promote the operation or improvement of something. 1
- idioms pumping pump iron. iron (def 29). 1
- noun pumping Pumping is any method of making a fluid move. 0