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    AIR PUMP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A pump that moves air in or out of somethingplay

    Synonyms:

    air pump; vacuum pump

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("air pump" is a kind of...):

    pump (a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "air pump"):

    condensation pump; diffusion pump (vacuum pump used to obtain a high vacuum)

    inflater; inflator (an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire))

    ion pump (a vacuum pump that removes gas by ionizing the atoms or molecules and adsorbing them on a metal surface)

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