dumps
noun
- 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
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- 3
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- 4
An act of dumping, or its result.
“The new XML dump is coming soon.”
- 5
A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
- 6
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- 7
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
“Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.”
- 8
(often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
“I have to take a dump.”
- 9
(usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
- 10
Absence of mind; revery.
- 11
A pile of ore or rock.
- 12
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
- 13
An old kind of dance.
- 14
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- 15
A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
verb
- 1
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- 2
To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
- 3
To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- 4
To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- 5
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- 6
To end a relationship with.
- 7
To knock heavily; to stump.
- 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
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
noun
- 1
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
- 2
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
noun
- 1
A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
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