dump

1 a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: shit]

2 a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: 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

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: ditch]

3 sell at artificially low prices [syn: underprice]

4 drop in a heap or mass

5 fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: plunge]

6 knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck, coldcock, knock down, floor]

English

Pronunciation

• dʌmp

  Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

   A toxic waste dump.

2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. An act of dumping, or its result.

   The new XML dump is coming soon.

5. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
6. An unpleasant, dirty or disreputable place.
7. An act of defecation.

   To take a dump.

8. 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. --

   I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.

9. Absence of mind; revery.
10. A pile of ore or rock.
11. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

    Tune a deploring dump.

    Play me some merry dump. --

12. An old kind of dance.
13. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

Verb

1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
3. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
4. (informal) To end a relationship with.
5. To knock heavily; to stump.
6. 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.
7. To precipitate (esp. snow) heavily.

Derived terms

• dumping car, dump car
• dumping cart, dump cart

Translations

noun

• Spanish: depósito, basurero

verb - discard

• Spanish: tirar a la basura, arrojar

verb - computers

• Spanish: volcar en memoria

Dump may refer to:

• Landfill, a site for the disposal of waste (see also: ocean dumping)
• Dump (program), a Unix program for backing up file systems
• Core dump, the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed)
• Database dump, a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database
• Dump (band), an alias for the solo recordings of James McNew
• Tape delay (broadcasting)
• Relationship breakup
• Defecation (taking a dump), or feces (a dump)

See also

• Dumping (disambiguation)
• Dumped

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