dolo amber
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:08 PM
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What the hell is a "sump"?? |
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As in "sump pump"? :shrug:
Aside from sounding like something I hope not to come into contact with until I'm elderly and it's unaviodable :scared:, I have no idea what this means.
Yes, I know it apparently keeps water out of your basement, but wouldn't it just be easier to call such a contraption a "basement pump"?? :wtf:
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:09 PM
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The apartment I lived in when I first got married had one of these. Damn thing was really loud too. :mad:
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:09 PM
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1. A low-lying place, such as a pit, that receives drainage. 2. A cesspool. 2. A hole at the lowest point of a mine shaft into which water is drained in order to be pumped out. 3. The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal-combustion engine.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:10 PM
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4. Who asked you, Mr. Webster |
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:11 PM
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:12 PM
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What a cnut I must seem... :blush:
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:13 PM
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11. I had no idea you were royalty! |
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:20 PM
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15. He's whipping your ass Dolo. |
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:32 PM
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That's fucking beautiful. :7
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:39 PM
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Cnut, Cnut, Cnut! It's fun to say! :7
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:10 PM
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3. "A pit, well, or the like, |
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in which water or other liquid is collected." Dictionaries are not your enemy.
My parents' old house was in an area with a moderately high water table. Water would collect under the basement floor; it drained into the sump: a 3-foot-deep round hole in the concrete floor.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:10 PM
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with leaves and debris in it, it acts as a sort of filtering device.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:11 PM
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sump ( P ) Pronunciation Key (smp) n.
1.A low-lying place, such as a pit, that receives drainage. 2.A cesspool. 3.A hole at the lowest point of a mine shaft into which water is drained in order to be pumped out. 4.The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal-combustion engine.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:11 PM
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8. Spending time in Wisconsin, are ya ? |
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:silly: I knew what that was ... grew up listening to one run every night in the basement under my bedroom.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:38 PM
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20. Wisconsin is the sump hole of the Upper Midwest |
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but they drain their excess fluids towards Chicago, so I guess Chicago is where you would stick the sump pump.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:12 PM
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10. a low-lying place, a cesspool |
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sump (smp) n. 1. 1. A low-lying place, such as a pit, that receives drainage. 2. A cesspool. 2. A hole at the lowest point of a mine shaft into which water is drained in order to be pumped out. 3. The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal-combustion engine. {Middle English sompe, marsh, from Middle Low German sump, or from Middle Dutch somp. Sense 2, from German Sumpf, swamp, sump from Middle High German, swamp.} More: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sump%20
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:16 PM
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Sump ( P ) Pronunciation Key (smp) n.
1. 1. A low-lying place, such as a pit, that receives drainage. 2. A cesspool. 2. A hole at the lowest point of a mine shaft into which water is drained in order to be pumped out. 3. The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal-combustion engine.
In homes in which the groundwater might be above the floor level of the basement, they are designed to drain excess water into a sump - which, as you can see from the definition, is a hole, and which when building is put into the basement floor - so that the water won't drain through the walls or other onoxious paths.
So, a sump pump is the pump that pumps from the sump. A basement pump would be a pump that sits on the basement floor, perhaps, and pumps out flooding, but would not sit in a sump, because then it would be a sump pump.
if a person were really worried (like my aunt, who lives in a swamp), you might want a sump pump AND a basement pump, to get twice as much pumpage in the heavy rainfalls. My aunt had an awful time wshen they first moved into their house, because it was ONLY a basement for almost three years before they put a house on it, and flooded constantly.
That basement still floods, 60 years later. because, as I said, she lives in a swamp.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:26 PM
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16. "a sump pump is the pump that pumps from the sump" |
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Strange, but I'd really love to hear KRS-1 say that.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:27 PM
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17. KRS-1? What/Who is that? |
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It is quite a sentence, isn't it?
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:34 PM
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19. Rapper. Boogie Down Productions. Great Shit. n/t |
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:18 PM
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is a designed hole in the floor of one's cellar located so that water leaking into the basement flows into it. A pump (sump pump) turned on and off automatically by the water level in the (sump) pumps the water out of the cellar.
In our house the pump is called a bilge pump because I am a sailor.
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Wed Apr-06-05 09:19 PM
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... that it hasn't become a slang term yet.
--p!
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