Pump Action

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Pump Action

Definition: Pump Action

Pump Action

Noun

1. Action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Pump Action

Synonym: slide action (n). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Pump Action

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher. (Aliens; writing credit: James Cameron; David Giler)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Pump Action

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Enjoy a day in the field with dogs and shotguns, during a break in their training at the Yeoman Training School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, circa 1944-45. Shotguns include one pump action and one semi-automatic model. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Anagrams: Pump Action

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-p-p-t-u"
	-2 letters: aconitum, panoptic, pupation.
	-3 letters: apomict, appoint, auction, campion, caption, caution, maintop, manitou, opuntia, paction, panicum, pantoum, potamic, ptomain, tampion, timpano, tinamou, utopian.
	-4 letters: action, amount, anomic, atomic, atonic, atopic, camion, cation, catnip, conium, impact, manioc, manito, manitu, mantic, muonic, optima, outman, pitman, potman, tampon, toucan, tunica, utopia.
	-5 letters: actin, amino, amnic, amnio, antic, campi.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-p-p-t-u"
	+4 letters: mercaptopurine.
	+5 letters: mercaptopurines.
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Alternative Orthography: Pump Action

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 75 6D 70 41 63 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110101 01101101 01110000 00100000 01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#117 &#109 &#112 &#32 &#65 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0075 006D 0070 0041 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508779822356986758180

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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