Dump

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English

Noun

Dump (plural Dumps)
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
    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. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
    The new XML dump is coming soon.
  5. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  6. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
    This place looks like a dump.
    Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
  7. (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating.
    To take a dump.
  8. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
    March slowly on in solemn dump. -- Hudibras.
    Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --William Shakespeare
    I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --John Bunyan.
  9. Absence of mind; revery.
  10. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
  11. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    Tune a deploring dump.
    Play me some merry dump. --William Shakespeare
  12. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
  13. (historical) (Australian) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

Verb

Dump (third-person singular simple present Dumps, present participle Dumping, simple past and past participle Dumped)

  1. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  3. (transitive) (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  4. (transitive) (informal) To end a relationship with.
  5. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
  6. (transitive) (US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
  7. (transitive) (US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

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Thesaurus

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Etymology

Akin to Old Norse dumpa (to thump) ( > Danish dumpe (to fall suddenly))

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dʌmp/, SAMPA: /dVmp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Translations

Noun

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Dutch

Verb

Dump

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dumpen.
  2. imperative of dumpen.