dump

/dʌmp/

noun

  1. 1

    A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

    A toxic waste dump.
  2. 2

    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

  3. 3

    That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

  4. 4

    An act of dumping, or its result.

    The new XML dump is coming soon.
  5. 5

    A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program

  6. 6

    A storage place for supplies, especially military.

  7. 7

    An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

    Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
  8. 8

    (often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.

    I have to take a dump.
  9. 9

    (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency

  10. 10

    Absence of mind; revery.

  11. 11

    A pile of ore or rock.

  12. 12

    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

  13. 13

    An old kind of dance.

  14. 14

    A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

  15. 15

    A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

verb

  1. 1

    To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

  2. 2

    To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.

  3. 3

    To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.

  4. 4

    To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

  5. 5

    To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.

  6. 6

    To end a relationship with.

  7. 7

    To knock heavily; to stump.

  8. 8

    To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

    We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
  9. 9

    To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

noun

  1. 1

    A thick, ill-shapen piece.

  2. 2

    A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

noun

  1. 1

    A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

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