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Definition dump

Etymology 1

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)).

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

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.
4. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
5. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
8. (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
9. (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
10. Absence of mind; revery.
11. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
14. (historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
3. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
4. (transitive, computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
5. (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
6. (transitive, informal) To end a relationship with.
7. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
8. (transitive, US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
9. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Etymology 2

See dumpling.

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

1. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
2. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

Etymology 3

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

1. (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

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