Pronunciations (2)
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/dʌmp/
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[dɐm̥p]
Noun
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
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a toxic waste dump
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
Usage- Internet
An act of dumping, or its result.
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The new XML dump is coming soon.
A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
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an ammo dump
a munitions dump
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
Usage- Slang
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This place looks like a dump.
Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
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"Okay," he said. "We'll check out of this dump tomorrow."
‘What on earth,’ he asked, ‘is a girl like you doing in a dump like this?’
An act of defecation; a defecating.
Usage- euphemistic
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- with the verb "take"
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I have to take a dump.
A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
Usage- plural-normally
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[…] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
[…] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]
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March slowly on in solemn dump […]
Absence of mind; reverie.
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They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.
A pile of ore or rock.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
Usage- Obsolete
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Tune a deploring dump […]
O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.
An old kind of dance.
Usage- Obsolete
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- Historical
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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.
A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
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The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.
Mass displays to move goods in bulk are dotted here and there throughout the store, particularly at the ends of the gondolas, and considerable use is made of dump displays.
Although they may have a lot of clutter in promotional cardboard dump displays, that factor is likely to change.
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I remember that Bill made a little cardboard dump, with boots and a whip, for the bookstore displays, and the people in the chain stores were so outraged by this dump they threw it in the trash.
Verb
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
Usage- Transitive
To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
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The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
Usage- Transitive
To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
Usage- Transitive
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to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
Usage- Transitive
To end a romantic relationship with.
Usage- Informal
- Transitive
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Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
To knock heavily; to stump.
Usage- Scotland
- Obsolete
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To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
Usage- Transitive
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We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Usage- US usage
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Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
Usage- Australia
- Transitive
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Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
Noun
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
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The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
Noun
A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
Usage- Northern-England
Noun
a coarse term for defecation
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he took a shit
a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
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a place where supplies can be stored
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an ammunition dump
Verb
throw away as refuse
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No dumping in these woods!
sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
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The company dumped him after many years of service
She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man
sell at artificially low prices
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drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
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The truck dumped the garbage in the street
fall abruptly
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It plunged to the bottom of the well
knock down with force
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He decked his opponent