dump
IPA: dˈʌmp
noun
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
- (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
- (UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- A city in Toledo District, Belize.
verb
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
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Examples of "dump" in Sentences
- The pantechnicon dumped the girls.
- The trio dump the body in a landfill.
- Dump the liquid into a pail of sawdust.
- The blizzard dumped of snow on the town.
- Dumping 500 of of them into the article is not.
- The allegation of dumping is without foundation.
- The air exiting the turbine is dumped overboard.
- He now is the dump manager, and enforces the code of the Dump.
- By ocean dumping one understands the disposal of waste on the water.
- Once likely waste materials have been garnered from the dump, they are taken to a workshop where skilled craftsmen work their magic.
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