Word: dump Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /dʌmp/, [dɐm̥p] 1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. Example: a toxic waste dump 2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. 4. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. Labels: Internet 5. An act of dumping, or its result. Example: The new XML dump is coming soon. 6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program. 7. A storage place for supplies, especially military. Example: an ammo dump Example: a munitions dump 8. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place. Labels: slang Example: This place looks like a dump. Example: Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump. 9. An act of defecation; a defecating. Labels: euphemistic, often, slang Example: I have to take a dump. 10. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency. Labels: plural-normally Example: […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […] Example: […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […] 11. Absence of mind; reverie. Example: 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. 12. A pile of ore or rock. 13. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. Labels: obsolete Example: Tune a deploring dump […] Example: O, play me some merry dump to comfort me. 14. An old kind of dance. Labels: obsolete 15. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar). Labels: Australia, Canada, historical Example: 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. 16. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold. Example: 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. Example: 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.