Betekenis van pump In het Nederlands

• 0 a piece of equipment that is used to cause liquid, air, or gas to move from one place to another:

  • a water/bicycle/fuel pump

  • a petrolpump

• 1 a type of flat shoe, like a ballet dancer's shoe, worn by women

• 2 to force liquid or gas to move somewhere:

  • Our latest machine can pump a hundred gallons a minute.

  • The new wine is pumped into storage tanks.

  • The heart pumps blood through the arteries/round the body.

• 3 to keep asking someone for information, especially in a way that is not direct:

  • She was pumping me for details of the new project.

• 4 (of music with a loud, continuous beat) to be played loudly through speakers:

  • Reggae music pumped from the stereo.

  • Not everyone likes having music pumping and an instructor shouting at them when they're exercising.

• 5 a piece of equipment used to cause liquid, air, or gas to move from one place to another:

  • a gas/water pump

• 6 a women’s shoe with no fasteners

• 7 If you pump money into something, you spend a lot of money trying to make it successful:

  • We’re pumping millions into this new program.

  • I pumped him for details about the deal.

• 8 to collect oil or gas by making it flow out of the ground:

  • It was the only nation with the capacity to pump more oil.

  • We need to pump an extra 2 million barrels a day.

• 9 used to refer to the cost of fuel for cars when sold to the public:

  • The dramatic drop in oil prices was not immediately reflected at the pump.