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Pumping vs Pushing - What's the difference?

pumping | pushing |

As verbs the difference between pumping and pushing

is that pumping is while pushing is .

As nouns the difference between pumping and pushing

is that pumping is the act by which something is pumped while pushing is the act by which something is pushed.

As an adjective pushing is

that pushes forward; pressing, driving.

pumping

English

(wikipedia pumping)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    *pumping iron

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pumped.
  • * 2010 , Nancy Mohrbacher, ?Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Breastfeeding Made Simple
    • Focus on the number of pumpings per day, not the time between pumpings.

    pushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
  • Aggressively assertive; pushy.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
  • *:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pushed.

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