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dump

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What does dump mean?

noun

  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
More meanings (28)

noun

  1. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
  2. An act of dumping, or its result.
  3. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
  4. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  5. (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
  6. (slang) An act of defecation; a defecating.
  7. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
  8. Absence of mind; reverie.
  9. A pile of ore or rock.
  10. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
  11. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
  12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
  14. (historical) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
  15. (archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  16. (archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

verb

  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. (informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
  7. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
  8. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
  9. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
  10. (obsolete) To knock heavily; to stump.

proper noun

  1. A city in Toledo District, Belize.
  2. (derogatory, slang) Donald Trump.
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I guided the lines with one hand and steadied the scraper with the other as I drove up on the dump.
James J. (James John) DavisThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItProject Gutenberg ebook #1297
Juozapas was away raking in the dump a good part of the time, and Elzbieta and Marija were hunting for more work.
Upton SinclairThe JungleProject Gutenberg ebook #140
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We sat by the margin of the dump and saw, far below us, the green treetops standing still in the clear air.
Robert Louis StevensonThe Silverado SquattersProject Gutenberg ebook #516
A party was sent back to Dump Camp, near the ship, to collect as much clothing, tobacco, etc., as they could find.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
Across the flats, at the fringe of the town, were the dump heaps, the figures of a few Chinese rag-pickers moving over them.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165