I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bicycle pump (= for putting more air in a tyre )
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Where’s the bicycle pump?
a fuel pump (= a machine that forces fuel into an engine )
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The car's fuel pump was leaking.
a petrol pump (= a machine for putting petrol into cars at a petrol station )
air pump
heat pump
parish pump
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parish pump politics
stomach pump
suction pump
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a suction pump
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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Some pubs, mainly in the Midlands and the North, use electric pumps to draw the beer to the bar.
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Residents say several concerns must be addressed immediately: The noise problem could be helped with the installation of an electric pump .
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An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.
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He added the city apparently decided on diesel because electric pumps cost more.
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As the peat shrank further, more powerful electric pumps and diesel pumps became available.
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A high capacity electric pump flooded the engine and no return for excess fuel was fitted.
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Examples of different types of electric pumps .
hydraulic
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Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump .
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It was originally operated by steam-powered hydraulic pumps , but is now driven electrically.
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This was originally done by steam engines with hydraulic pumps .
submersible
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These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump .
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The project involves initial drilling and completion of 86 oil and 20 water-injection wells and installing a submersible pump system in each.
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Because most submersible pumps are not designed to cope with solids.
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Then a submersible pump , concealed in a sump, conveys it back up to a blockwork filter filled with Canterbury spar.
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Some submersible pumps have a very small discharge and so it is important to judge the water flow required before shopping around.
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Installation of a submersible pump is quite simple, for, as described earlier, it is merely placed in the water.
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The ring is attached to the outflow of a submersible pump .
■ NOUN
action
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They recovered a pump action shotgun.
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Trigger sprayers: These hand sprayers easily recognisable by their trigger pump action are known widely to gardeners.
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Baillie then confronted McCubbin armed with a cut throat razor and a pump action shotgun.
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Your favourite Wella Shockwaves Gel-Sprays and Hairsprays are now in handy pump action bottles with a new advanced spray mechanism.
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He worked the pump action frantically to eject the spent cartridge and reload.
air
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The equipment need only be a sponge filter, air pump and heaterstat.
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His other suggestions were in respect of a chemical pump and an air pump.
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When connected and adjusted, an air pump needs very little attention.
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At the same time the air pump removes waste water and air from the separate condenser thus maintaining a vacuum in it.
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His undergravel filter, therefore was best powered by an air pump rather than powerheads.
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Good features Most air pumps are cheap and efficient.
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Which you choose, an air pump or alternative means, is a matter of personal choice.
fuel
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In the event of a fuel pump failure the same reserve holds good.
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The fuel pump gave out and left us sitting by the side of the road in the heat to consider our options.
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There is a filter on the inlet side of the fuel pump which may be partially blocked and obstructing fuel flow.
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The main engines and fuel pumps are removed and sent for refurbishment.
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Since then I have replaced the old leaky fuel pump which has given me a perplexing problem.
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It makes control of the fuel pump that much more precise.
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However a special fuel pump had to be found to make the tractor suitable for farm work.
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It began by not going up hills and it was suggested it might be the fuel pump .
gas
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She perches herself on the tiny pink chair near the gas pumps , making sure customers can see her.
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There were long lines at the gas pumps , a permanent downturn in the economy, Carly Simon on the radio.
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I actually thought of credit cards on gas pumps way before it happened.
hand
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In some pubs fake hand pumps serve gassy beer.
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The hand pump on the other hand supplies a basic human need required by all people, clean water.
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Air was supplied by hand pump .
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The book includes a bag of balloons, a hand pump and easy-to-follow instructions.
parish
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Perhaps the articles turned out badly because his heart wasn't really in that kind of parish pump , chatty writing.
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There was a paper, the Villager, but a parish pump periodical wasn't really what the place needed.
petrol
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Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.
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It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances.
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An on/off switch on the dashboard controls the petrol pump , and a hand-operated gas-valve regulates the gas flow.
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Once the gas flow is adequate, the petrol pump is switched off.
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On a hill, the petrol pump is switched on and the gas valve is switched off.
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Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female, though it took a few seconds to realise it.
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Many want to see the return of petrol pump attendants because of the difficulties with self-self service.
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What did the robot say to the petrol pump ?
water
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An extra water pump in the form of an internal power sponge filter will be necessary for good water circulation.
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Jack leant against the stone surround of the village water pump .
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An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.
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Water pump stolen A £100 water pump has been stolen from the garden of a house in Long Lane, Rayne.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foot pedal/brake/pump etc
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He then, with a foot pedal, activates the wire-cutter.
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I also use a Boogie and split the signal from a foot pedal to two amps usually.
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I hear the rat-ta-ta-tat of the foot pedal, as she stitches along.
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The amount of push, and therefore the direction the nose points, is controlled by pushing the foot pedals.
prime the pump
put/pump/pour money into sth
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Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
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First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
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I too had put money into the hat.
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If the possible reward is very high, I would put money into a business that could fail. 4.
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In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
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Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
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The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
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This, he says, accounts for developers fighting shy of putting money into the city.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pair of blue leather pumps
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A visitor treks to the pumps from the darkened viewing room of the aquarium by opening an unmarked door.
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After two miles he came to a garage on the left, a small affair with old-style hand-operated pumps and a little office.
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At once, Poole could hear the throbbing of the pumps as precious air was sucked out of the lock chamber.
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But just as likely, his brief time alongside the men at Midvale ran together with his years at the pump works.
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The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run.
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The leak was reportedly from a pump in the plant.
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These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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He would pump away until he was exhausted, as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed.
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He held my head as I pumped away .
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Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over.
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Karen is pumping away , unsmiling, just beginning to break a sweat.
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Feel your body, feel that crimson muscle inside your chest, and those frothy pink bellows of yours, pumping away .
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Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
in
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Air pumped in as the warning sirens died away.
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The patient is awake throughout, and must lie absolutely still when the drug is pumped in .
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The dip liquid is pumped in from a vacuum tanker.
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They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion, her head still pumping in and out.
out
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It is no good reducing interest rates on their own, because there is no point in just pumping out credit.
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Here, 300 workers are busy pumping out solar panels.
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My enjoyment was only tempered by my fear of pumping out .
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The amount of paper pumped out in those warrens was awesome.
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The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die.
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But a lot of the water being pumped out of the ground is as nonrenewable as oil.
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Berlusconi's television empire pumps out nothing but self-serving propaganda.
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It requires putting a protective cover on the site, pumping out the contaminated substance, and then treating it.
up
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Flak began to be pumped up one searchlight beam: bombs meant bombers.
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Viscosity of the waste stream is not critical unless it prevents the material from being pumped up to the required operating pressure.
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A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen.
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Time soured the high feelings pumped up by a winning, if inconclusive, war.
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A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down.
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When he and his friends used skiing to pump up their egos I encouraged them.
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He was still pumped up after the brief battle.
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But pumped up to the density required for a robot, circuit strangeness becomes indelible.
■ NOUN
adrenalin
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It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.
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The adrenalin which had been pumping into her bloodstream since early the previous day had burned up all her reserves of energy.
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The adrenalin was pumping but I knew that I could control it, knew that it was necessary to a good performance.
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Impossible. Adrenalin was pumping round me.
air
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This bladder inflated when air was pumped into the suit at a pressure of 26 kPa.
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The size of the inner diameter regulates the amount of sample, reagents, water, and air pumped into the system.
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However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.
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Then air is pumped into the area, forcing the water out.
blood
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Cut clean, the blood still pumping .
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However, the amount of blood pumped by the heart remains the same.
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It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood , sending adrenalin pumping through his system.
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A bright-red liquid, redder than blood pumped from the human heart, flows from this mixture.
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Her mouth went dry, and her blood began to pump hot and thick through ultra-sensitive veins.
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I could feel the blood pump through her chest.
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The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die.
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His skin was bursting, stretched almost to transparency by the blood pumped down into it.
gas
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The hot gas is pumped to a coil in the indoor unit where cooler indoor air is blown across the hot coils.
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Evcn the coyote chained to a stake near the gas pumps to entertain the tourists understands the meaning of injustice.
hand
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The man who was now pumping my hand with just a little too much fervour was completely bald.
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Laz pumps my hand in a blustering manner that sends his straight hair bobbing over his ruddy face.
heart
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He whirled from the door, heart still pumping madly from his encounter in the basement.
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Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
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Sometimes it would modulate to a hum and at others rise to a shriek according to how hard his heart was pumping .
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High blood pressure means the heart is straining to pump blood.
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Doyle moved quickly along the gardens, crouching slightly, eyes keen for movement, heart beginning to pump .
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Ultimately, that defect prevents the heart from pumping well.
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I rest on the top of the wall, my hands shaking, my heart pumping hard.
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This makes it hard for the heart to pump blood into the adjacent organ, causing the heart to enlarge and weaken.
leg
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When she saw him, she started running, fat legs pumping .
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His little eyes struggled in the early sunlight, his pudgy, over-burdened legs pumping on the sand, craving asphalt.
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Her legs were pumping and her fingers were wild at her throat.
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My legs still pumped but became heavier, denser, as the water in my body boiled into the air.
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Their bare legs pump bicycle pedals, they clatter on wooden-soled sandals into the dazzling light over the work benches.
money
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Unless they pump in more money , they stand to be forced into massive write-offs.
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Simply pumping more money into the public education system only would perpetuate the status quo.
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They are prepared to force ministers to pump more money into keeping bills down.
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However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.
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The central bank promised to pump more money into the system if there were any further signs of instability.
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Villanova ultimately severed ties with du Pont even after he pumped enormous amounts of money into their wrestling program.
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Though the Fed pumped money into the banks, the money supply seemed not to budge much.
oil
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They will probably pump more oil in coming months.
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Rough weather has all but stopped efforts to pump that oil out of the upside-down hull.
stomach
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On pumping her stomach , they find 27 varieties of semen in her.
suction
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Then, their ears protected against the piercing whine, they activated the suction pump .
water
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As no water is pumped through the unit, no flow rate restrictions apply.
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The water is pumped 60 miles and climbs more than 3, 000 feet to reach the city.
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A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen.
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But a lot of the water being pumped out of the ground is as nonrenewable as oil.
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Thames Water has agreed to reduce the amount of water it pumps from its boreholes during winter by 60 percent.
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When the water is pumped out if there is much oil in it the crew knows the casks are leaking.
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The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
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A stream of water is pumped into a hot reactor, where it boils and is heated to very high temperatures.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foot pedal/brake/pump etc
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He then, with a foot pedal, activates the wire-cutter.
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I also use a Boogie and split the signal from a foot pedal to two amps usually.
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I hear the rat-ta-ta-tat of the foot pedal, as she stitches along.
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The amount of push, and therefore the direction the nose points, is controlled by pushing the foot pedals.
put/pump/pour money into sth
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Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
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First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
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I too had put money into the hat.
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If the possible reward is very high, I would put money into a business that could fail. 4.
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In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
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Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
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The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
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This, he says, accounts for developers fighting shy of putting money into the city.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He pumped away furiously.
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We were able to pump clean groundwater from several of the wells.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually, Cotton needs pumping about as much as Charles Barkley needs prompting.
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As you know, blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around.
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Emergency crews were called to pump water from 7 houses.
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I pressed in, remained, pumped.
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They have not pumped up taxes; personal and corporate income taxes have remained at reasonable levels.
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Up to 60, 000 temporary jobs are expected to pump an estimated $ 2 billion in wages into the local economy.
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When the water is pumped out if there is much oil in it the crew knows the casks are leaking.