dump in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "dump"

    • A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
    • 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.
    • A storage place for supplies, especially military.
    • An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
    • (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating.
    • A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
    • Absence of mind; revery.
    • (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
    • (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    • (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
    • (historical) (Australian) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
    • (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.
    • noun
      A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
    • noun
      A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
    • noun
      That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
    • noun
      (computing)
      An act of dumping, or its result.
    • noun
      (computing)
      A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
    • noun
      A storage place for supplies, especially military.
    • noun
      An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
    • noun
      (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take")
      An act of defecation; a defecating.
    • noun
      A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor ( usually plural).
    • noun
      Absence of mind; revery.
    • noun
      (mining)
      A pile of ore or rock.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      An old kind of dance.
    • noun
      (historical, Australia)
      A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
    • noun
      (Britain, archaic)
      A thick, ill-shapen piece.
    • noun
      (Britain, archaic)
      A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
    • verb
      (transitive, computing)
      To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
    • verb
      (transitive, informal)
      To end a relationship with.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To knock heavily; to stump.
    • verb
      (transitive, US)
      To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
    • verb
      (transitive, US)
      To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
    • a place where waste or garbage is left
    • to release
    • to discard, to get rid of
    • to copy data from a system to another place or system
    • to end a relationship
    • A site where garbage is collected and buried.
    • A binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger to analyze the cause of the crash. It contains the contents of the memory when the crash occurred.
    • (become) dump
    • noun
      a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit"
    • noun
      a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
    • noun
      a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump"
    • noun
      (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
    • verb
      drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"
    • verb
      fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well"
    • verb
      knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"
    • verb
      sell at artificially low prices
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"

    Synonyms of "dump" in English dictionary

    trash dump, site, fling are the top synonyms of "dump" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of dump

    • dump, dumped, dumping, dumps
    • dump ( third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)
    • dump ( plural  dumps)
    • dump (plural dumps)
    • dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)
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