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
- But I think I have enough of a brain dump for now!
- So “someone” is suggesting that Palin dump Todd and go after Chuck Norris?
- If both Tony and her label dump her, the only thing she’ll be left with is tears.
- The day she squats in Times Square and takes a dump is the day she deserves media coverage.
- I also keep what I call a "dump" file for each project and whether I am actively working on it or not, I capture ideas and information there.
- Technologically advanced landfills - the word "dump" now applies only to old-school holes in the ground - are expensive to design and operate.
- Since Sanford obviously didn't dump is soul mate during the NY trip, what did his "spiritual advisor" tell him - "oh yeah keep cheating on your wife cause your soul mate is much nicer".
- But I have just come from a roundtable discussion with some seniors and some people involved in the process, a corporate executive who is from Caterpillar who assures me that corporations have no intention -- if there's a Medicare reform bill signed by me, corporations have no intention to what they call dump retirees into a system they don't want to be dumped into.
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