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💧 Starting water flow 💸 Stimulating economy
pump priming

pump priming

6.5
Adding water to a machine that moves water so it seals and starts working
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : preparación de la bomba
  • Without proper pump priming, the device can be damaged by running dry.

Examples

  • The engineers performed pump priming before starting the irrigation system.

  • Regular pump priming ensures that the equipment operates efficiently.

  • The pump priming process is crucial for effective irrigation.

  • We need to focus on pump priming to ensure the system works.

  • The engineers performed pump priming before starting the irrigation system.

  • Regular pump priming ensures that the equipment operates efficiently.

  • Without proper pump priming, the device can be damaged by running dry.

Surface Forms

pump priming singular
pump primings plural

Morphology

pump + priming

The phrase evokes the concrete image of priming a pump (injecting to start a flow), and the components 'pump' (inject) + 'priming' (preparing) reasonably suggest injecting resources to stimulate activity, so a learner who knows both words can infer the general idea. However, its specific economic sense — a technical policy of government spending/investment to stimulate the economy — is a metaphorical, jargon-like extension and not fully predictable without some prior exposure.

Etymology

Pump priming comes from the simple act of pouring water into a pump to prime it so the pump fills with water and can start working. So, it means putting water into a pump to get it going.