Dump


[duhmp] /dʌmp/

verb (used with object)
1.
to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly:
Dump the topsoil here.
2.
to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning.
3.
to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning.
4.
to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract:
The first baseman was dumped from the team after hitting .210 for the first half of the season.
5.
to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly:
Don’t dump your troubles on me!
6.
Boxing Slang.

7.
Commerce.

8.
Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer’s internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails.
9.
Slang. to kill; murder:
threats to dump him if he didn’t pay up.
verb (used without object)
10.
to fall or drop down suddenly.
11.
to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc.
12.
Commerce.

13.
to release contents:
a sewage pipe that dumps in the ocean.
14.
Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one’s problems:
He calls me up just to dump.
15.
Slang: Vulgar. to defecate.
noun
16.
an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
17.
Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited.
18.
Military.

19.
the act of dumping.
20.
Mining.

21.
Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable.
22.
(in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale:
Fifty copies of the best-selling paperback novel were in a dump near the checkout counter.
23.
Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer’s internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium.
Idioms
24.
dump on (someone), Informal.

/dʌmp/
verb
1.
to drop, fall, or let fall heavily or in a mass
2.
(transitive) to empty (objects or material) out of a container
3.
to unload, empty, or make empty (a container), as by tilting or overturning
4.
(transitive) (informal) to dispose of
5.
(transitive) to dispose of (waste, esp radioactive nuclear waste) in the sea or on land
6.
(commerce)

7.
(transitive) to store (supplies, arms, etc) temporarily
8.
(intransitive) (slang, mainly US) to defecate
9.
(transitive) (surfing) (of a wave) to hurl a swimmer or surfer down
10.
(transitive) (Austral & NZ) to compact (bales of wool) by hydraulic pressure
11.
(transitive) (computing) to record (the contents of part or all of the memory) on a storage device, such as magnetic tape, at a series of points during a computer run
noun
12.

13.
a pile or accumulation of rubbish
14.
the act of dumping
15.
(informal) a dirty or unkempt place
16.
(military) a place where weapons, supplies, etc, are stored
17.
(slang, mainly US) an act of defecation
/dʌmp/
noun
1.
(obsolete) a mournful song; lament
v.

early 14c., “throw down or fall with force,” perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. Danish dumpe, Norwegian dumpa “to fall suddenly”). The sense of “unload en masse” is first recorded in American English 1784. That of “discard, abandon” is from 1919. Related: Dumped; dumping. Dump truck is from 1930.
n.

“place where refuse is dumped,” 1865, originally of mining operations, from dump (v.). Meaning “any shabby place” is from 1899. Meaning “act of defecating” is from 1942.

noun

verb

Related Terms

core dump, take a dump

[origin uncertain; perhaps related to a Scandinavian term meaning ”to fall suddenly,” the connection being the tipping out of a load from a cart]

operating system
1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hexadecimal or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by “groveling over” a dump (see grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term “dump” now has a faintly archaic flavour.
2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large time-sharing installations.
Unix manual page: dump(1).
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-01)

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    noun 1. a free-standing unit in a bookshop in which the books of a particular publisher are displayed 2. a container in a shop in which goods are heaped, often in a disorderly fashion

  • Dumpcart

    [duhmp-kahrt] /ˈdʌmpˌkɑrt/ noun 1. a with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.

  • Dumped on

    modifier Maligned or somehow abused; also, criticized severely •From dump meaning ”defecate”: dumped on by her sister

  • Dumper

    [duhmp] /dʌmp/ verb (used with object) 1. to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here. 2. to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning. 3. to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning. 4. to be dismissed, […]


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