dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmp/
ipa: [dɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: dumps
Etymology: From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
Senses: examples: text: a toxic waste dump
glosses: A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
glosses: A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
glosses: That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
glosses: That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
examples: text: The new XML dump is coming soon.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An act of dumping, or its result.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
examples: text: an ammo dump
text: a munitions dump
glosses: A storage place for supplies, especially military.
examples: text: This place looks like a dump.
text: Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
glosses: An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
examples: text: I have to take a dump.
glosses: An act of defecation; a defecating.
raw_tags: with the verb "take"
examples: text: […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
text: March slowly on in solemn dump […]
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
examples: text: They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 45, page 125:
glosses: Absence of mind; reverie.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A pile of ore or rock.
examples: text: Tune a deploring dump […]
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
glosses: An old kind of dance.
examples: text: Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
ref: 2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66:
glosses: A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
examples: text: The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.
ref: 1958, Milton Alexander, Display ideas for super markets, page 211:
text: Mass displays to move goods in bulk are dotted here and there throughout the store, particularly at the ends of the gondolas, and considerable use is made of dump displays.
ref: 1959, Agenda: Co-operative Management Magazine - Volumes 7-8, page 68:
text: Although they may have a lot of clutter in promotional cardboard dump displays, that factor is likely to change.
ref: 1985, Product Marketing for Beauty Industry Retailers & Manufacturers:
text: I remember that Bill made a little cardboard dump, with boots and a whip, for the bookstore displays, and the people in the chain stores were so outraged by this dump they threw it in the trash.
ref: 1996, Anne Rice, Michael Riley, Interview with Anne Rice, page 76:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
Coordinate terms: sense: act of defecation
word: leak
Derived terms: ashdump
block dump
blumpkin
brain dump
core dump
crashdump
crash dump
cumdump
down in the dumps
dumpbin
dump bin
dump cake
dumpcart
dump core
dump dinner
dumpish
dump job
dump months
dumpsite
dump stat
dump store
dump tackle
dump truck
dumpy
dumpyard
garbage dump
heat dump
info-dump
infodump
in the dumps
mag dump
megadump
memory dump
minidump
pump and dump
redump
rubbish dump
screen dump
stump dump
take a dump
trauma dump
Related terms: sense: obsolete Australian coin
word: holey dollar