[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.", "Engineering, Building Trades.a shore having a jackscrew in its foot for adjusting the length or for bearing more firmly against the structure to be sustained.", "Biology.an organ that propels fluid through the body; heart.", "Cell Biology.a system that supplies energy for transport against a chemical gradient, as the sodium pump sodium pumpfor the transfer of sodium and potassium ions across a cell membrane."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to raise, drive, etc., with a pump.", "to free from water or other liquid by means of a pump.", "to inflate by pumping (often followed byup):to pump a tire up.", "to operate or move by an up-and-down or back-and-forth action.", "to supply with air, as an organ, by means of a pumplike device.", "to drive, force, etc., as if from a pump:He rapidly pumped a dozen shots into the bull's-eye.", "to supply or inject as if by using a pump:to pump money into a failing business.", "to question artfully or persistently to elicit information:to pump someone for confidential information.", "to elicit (information) by questioning."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to work a pump; raise or move water, oil, etc., with a pump.", "to operate as a pump does.", "to move up and down like a pump handle.", "to exert oneself in a manner likened to pumping:He pumped away at his homework all evening.", "to seek to elicit information from a person.", "to come out in spurts."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to inflate.to increase, heighten, or strengthen; put more effort into or emphasis on; intensify:The store has decided to pump up its advertising.to infuse with enthusiasm, competitive spirit, energy, etc.:The contestants were all backstage pumping themselves up for their big moment.", "to inflate.", "to increase, heighten, or strengthen; put more effort into or emphasis on; intensify:The store has decided to pump up its advertising.", "to infuse with enthusiasm, competitive spirit, energy, etc.:The contestants were all backstage pumping themselves up for their big moment."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a lightweight, low-cut shoe without fastenings for women.", "a slip-on black patent leather shoe for men, for wear with formal dress."]}]