A reservoir that receives drainage; a drain or receptacle for hydroponic nutrient solutions used for growing cannabis.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
sump (noun)1.
a pit or reservoir serving as a drain or receptacle for liquids as
a) - cesspool
b) a pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (as the oil-circulating system of an internal combustion engine)
c) chiefly British - oil pan
2.
British - crankcase
3.
German literally, marsh, from Middle High German
a) the lowest part of a mine shaft into which water drains
b) an excavation ahead of regular work in driving a mine tunnel or sinking a mine shaft
4.
something resembling a sump - sink
Sump (Wikipedia)
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Sump may refer to:
- An infiltration basin used to manage surface runoff water and recharge underground aquifers
- Sump (cave), a permanently flooded section of a cave, where an underground flow of water exits the cave into the earth such that the caver must submerge under water to reach the other side
- the lowest point in a basement, which collects water that enters from outside and can be moved back out with a sump pump
- the sump at the bottom of an internal combustion engine, where oil pools
- Sump (aquarium)
- A sump section below the mouthpiece of a diving snorkel
- the sump in a nuclear power plant's reactor housing that collects any overflow of primary loop coolant
- In a shaft sinking, the water handling facility of the mine often at its lowest point
- the bilge of a boat
- the vitreous humour, which serves a minor role as a metabolic sump of the human eye
- a grenade sump in a foxhole
- the sump, the center of the cosmos in medieval cosmology
Sump (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- sumph (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump from Old Saxon *sump, from Proto-West Germanic *sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Doublet of swamp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʌmp/
- Rhymes: -ʌmp
Noun
sump (plural sumps)
... Read Morereservoir, basin, catchment, cistern, collection chamber
