dump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
marketing
mathematics
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: dumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
pos: noun
examples: a toxic waste dump
gloss: A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: An act of dumping, or its result.
pos: noun
examples: The new XML dump is coming soon.
gloss: A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
pos: noun
gloss: A storage place for supplies, especially military.
pos: noun
examples: an ammo dump
a munitions dump
gloss: An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: This place looks like a dump.
Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
"Okay," he said. "We'll check out of this dump tomorrow."
gloss: An act of defecation; a defecating.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
often
slang
examples: I have to take a dump.
gloss: A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
[…] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]
March slowly on in solemn dump […]
gloss: Absence of mind; reverie.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A pile of ore or rock.
pos: noun
gloss: A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Tune a deploring dump […]
O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.
gloss: An old kind of dance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
historical
examples: 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.
gloss: A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
Although they may have a lot of clutter in promotional cardboard dump displays, that factor is likely to change.
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.
gloss: To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
gloss: To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
gloss: To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To end a romantic relationship with.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
gloss: To knock heavily; to stump.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
obsolete
transitive
gloss: To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
gloss: To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
Derived words: 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
rubbish dump
screen dump
stump dump
take a dump
trauma dump
redump
antidumping
book dumping
dumpable
dumpage
dump-and-bake
dump and burn
dumpee
dumper
dumping car
dump car
dumping cart
dump cart
dumping ground
dumping syndrome
dump on
dump one's load
dump out
dumpster
Dumpsville
fuel dumping
gastric dumping syndrome
granny dumping
homeless dumping
hump and dump
jump and dump
misdump
ocean dumping
undumped
water dumping
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