Pump vs Plumb - What's the difference?
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A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
(bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
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(colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
(US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
To fill with air.
To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
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To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
(slang) To be going very well.
(sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
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(Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.
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(computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
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(British) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
(chiefly, North America) A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes.
A shoe.
A type of shoe without a heel (source: Dictionarium Britannicum - 1736)
truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line
(cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.
In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
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(informal) Squarely, directly; completely.
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
(nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
To attach to a water supply and drain.
To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of .
To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
(dated) To seal something with lead.
To work as a plumber.
(rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
(US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
(nautical) To position vertically above or below.
In intransitive terms the difference between pump and plumb
is that pump is to use a pump to move liquid or gas while plumb is to work as a plumber.As nouns the difference between pump and plumb
is that pump is a device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas while plumb is a little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.As verbs the difference between pump and plumb
is that pump is to use a pump to move (liquid or gas) while plumb is to determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.As an adjective plumb is
truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.As an adverb plumb is
in a vertical direction; perpendicularly.pump
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pumpe, possibly from (etyl) . Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and (etyl) pompe.Noun
(en noun)- Want a skin-stretching pump ? Up the volume by using high-rep sets.
- A great pump is better than coming. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Verb
(en verb)- But pump not me for politics.
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- People never pumped , just never never, but sometimes ye got smells.
Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext - The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.
Etymology 2
The etymology of the term is unclear and disputed. One possibility is that it comes from "Pomp" (i.e. ornamentation), claimed in Skeat & Skeat's A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language'' (ISBN 9781596050921), and another is that it refers to the sound made by the foot moving inside the shoe when dancing, suggested as a probable source in Chambers's etymological dictionary (James Donald - Published by W. and R. Chambers, 1867). The Oxford English Dictionary claims that it appeared in the 16th century, and lists its origin as "obscure". It has also been linked to the Dutch ''pampoesje , possibly borrowed from Javanese "pampus", ultimately from Persian (papush) / Arabic (babush) (International archives of ethnography: Volume 9 - Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie; Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië - Ter Lands-drukkerij, 1870).Noun
(en noun)References
* [http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-22,GGGL:en&q=pumps%20shoes&sa=N&tab=wi] Some images. * 1591' "Gabriel's ' pumps were all unpinkt i' th' heel" -- The Taming of the Shrew, William ShakespeareSynonyms
* (shoe) plimsoll (British), sneaker, trainerDerived terms
* air pump * backpump * forepump * hand pump * petrol pump * price at the pump * pumped * pump fake * pump iron * pump room * pump up * stirrup pump * sump pump * under the pump ----plumb
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (truly vertical) perpendicularAdverb
(-)- Plumb down he falls.
- It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.
- Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.
