The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), n. [See Dumpling.]
   A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by
   boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dump \Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull,
   low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E.
   damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v.
   t.]
   1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low
      spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; --
      now used only in the plural.
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            March slowly on in solemn dump.       --Hudibras.
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            Doleful dumps the mind oppress.       --Shak.
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            I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.
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   Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word
         did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation
         of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps'
         after the battle of Cann[ae]." --Trench.
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   2. Absence of mind; revery. --Locke.
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   3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.]
      "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."
      --Shak.
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   4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] --Nares.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dump \Dump\, n.
   1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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   2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
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   3. That which is dumped.
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   4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

dump \dump\ n.
   a coarse term for defecation.

   Syn: shit.
        [WordNet 1.5]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf.
   Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush,
   dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.]
   1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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   2. 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. [U.S.] --Bartlett.
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   Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart,
      the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; --
      called also dump car, or dump cart.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dump
    n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn:
         shit, dump]
    2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn:
       dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump,
       wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite]
    3: (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer
       storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
    4: a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump"
    v 1: throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"
    2: sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or
       irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of
       service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love
       with a rich man" [syn: dump, ditch]
    3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: dump, underprice]
    4: drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage
       in the street"
    5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
       plunge, dump]
    6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck,
       coldcock, dump, knock down, floor]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

dump

    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)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

dump
 n.

    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 hex 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 flavor.

    2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations.