dump
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Akin to Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) ( > Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”))
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
dump (plural dumps)
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
- A toxic waste dump.
- 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.
- The new XML dump is coming soon.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
- This place looks like a dump.
- Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
- (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- To take a dump.
- A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
- March slowly on in solemn dump. -- Hudibras.
- Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --William Shakespeare
- I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --John Bunyan.
- Absence of mind; revery.
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
- Tune a deploring dump.
- Play me some merry dump. --William Shakespeare
- (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
- (historical) (Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
- 2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66,
- Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
- 2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66,
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
- (obsolete Australian coin): holey dollar
Translations [edit]
a place where waste or garbage is left
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Verb [edit]
dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
- (transitive) (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) (informal) To end a relationship with.
- (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
- (transitive) (US) 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.
- (transitive) (US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:junk
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to release
to discard, to get rid of
to copy data from a system to another place or system
to end a relationship
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