dump
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (6)dumps, dumped, dumping
- throw away as refuse“No dumping in these woods!”More general discard, fling
- 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”Synonyms: ditchMore general get rid of, remove
- sell at artificially low pricesSynonyms: underpriceMore general sell
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass“The truck dumped the garbage in the street”More general drop
- fall abruptly“It plunged to the bottom of the well”Synonyms: plungeMore general dropSimilar dive, plunge
- knock down with force“He decked his opponent”Synonyms: deckcoldcockknock downfloorMore general beat
Noun (4)dumps
- a coarse term for defecation“he took a shit”Synonyms: shitType of defecation, laxation
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumpedSynonyms: garbage dumptrash dumprubbish dumpwasteyardwaste-yarddumpsiteType of site, land siteKinds garbage heap, eitchen midden, toxic waste dump
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programsType of copy, written matterKinds core dump
- a place where supplies can be stored“an ammunition dump”Type of storehouse, depot
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Translations
Noun a place where waste or garbage is left
Verb to end a relationship
- French
- larguer
- German
- verlassen
- Italian
- scaricare
- Portuguese
- largar
- Dutch
- dumpen
- Swedish
- dumpa
- Greek
- παρατάω parátao
- Korean
- 차다 chada
- Vietnamese
- đá
- Portuguese (PT)
- largar
2 more languages
- Finnish
- tehdä bänät
- Romanian
- da papucii
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: See Dumpling.
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. British Benjamin H. Smart
Origin: 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, transitive verb
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.
March slowly on in solemn dump.—
Doleful dumps the mind oppress.— William Shakespeare
I was musing in the midst of my dumps.— John Bunyan
☞ 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 Cannæ.” Abp. Richard Chenevix Trench
2. Absence of mind; revery. John Locke
3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. obsolete “Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.” William Shakespeare
4. An old kind of dance. obsolete Rob. Nares
Origin: 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. dialect (England) James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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. John Russell. Bartlett
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.
1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped.
4. Mining A pile of ore or rock.
a coarse term for defecation. Syn. — shit.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<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)
The Jargon File
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.