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Air pump: Definition and part of speech

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Air pump

  1. A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air.
  2. A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Air gun: Definition and part of speech

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Air gun

  1. A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Air hole: Definition and part of speech

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Air hole

  1. A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
  2. A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.