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dump

  [duhmp]
Use dump in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
2. to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning.
3. to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning.
4. to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract: The first baseman was dumped from the team after hitting .210 for the first half of the season.
5. to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly: Don't dump your troubles on me!
6. Boxing Slang.
a. to knock down: The champion was dumped twice but won the fight.
b. to lose (a match) intentionally: a bribe to dump a fight.
7. Commerce.
a. to put (goods or securities) on the market in large quantities and at a low price without regard to the effect on market conditions.
b. to sell (goods) into foreign markets below cost in order to promote exports or damage foreign competition.
8. Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer's internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails.
9. Slang. to kill; murder: threats to dump him if he didn't pay up.
–verb (used without object)
10. to fall or drop down suddenly.
11. to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc.
12. Commerce.
a. to offer goods for sale in large quantities at a low price.
b. to dump below-cost goods into foreign markets.
13. to release contents: a sewage pipe that dumps in the ocean.
14. Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one's problems: He calls me up just to dump.
15. Slang: Vulgar. to defecate.
–noun
16. an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
17. Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited.
18. Military.
a. a collection of ammunition, stores, etc., deposited at some point, as near a battlefront, for distribution.
b. the ammunition, stores, etc., so deposited.
19. the act of dumping.
20. Mining.
a. a runway or embankment equipped with tripping devices, from which low-grade ore, rock, etc., are dumped.
b. the pile of ore so dumped.
21. Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable.
22. (in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale: Fifty copies of the best-selling paperback novel were in a dump near the checkout counter.
23. Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer's internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium.
—Idiom
24. dump on (someone), Informal.
a. to attack with verbal abuse; criticize harshly: Reporters never tired of dumping on certain public figures.
b. to unload one's problems onto (another person): You never phone me without dumping on me.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME (in sense “to fall suddenly”) < ON dumpa strike, bump; modern senses as transit. v. and n. (not known before 19th cent.) perh. < another source, or independent expressive formation

Related forms:
dumper, noun
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dump   (dŭmp)   
v.   dumped, dump·ing, dumps

v.   tr.
  1. To release or throw down in a large mass.
    1. To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle: dumped the load of stones.
    2. To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.
    3. To get rid of; discard: a fine for dumping trash on public land; dumped the extra gear overboard.
    4. Informal To discard or reject unceremoniously: dump an old friend.
    1. To get rid of; discard: a fine for dumping trash on public land; dumped the extra gear overboard.
    2. Informal To discard or reject unceremoniously: dump an old friend.
  4. To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.
  5. Computer Science To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.
  6. Slang To knock down; beat.
v.   intr.
  1. To fall or drop abruptly.
  2. To discharge cargo or contents; unload.
  3. Slang To criticize another severely: was always dumping on me.
n.  
  1. A place where refuse is dumped: a garbage dump; a nuclear waste dump.
  2. A storage place for goods or supplies; a depot: an ammunition dump.
  3. An unordered accumulation; a pile.
  4. Computer Science An instance or the result of dumping stored data.
  5. Slang A poorly maintained or disreputable place.
  6. Vulgar Slang An act of defecating. Often used with take.

[Middle English dumpen, dompen, to fall suddenly, drop, of Scandinavian origin.]
dump'er n.
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Dump

Dump\, n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart.

Dump

Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan. dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.]

1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras.

Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak.

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

Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cann[ae]." --Trench.

2. Absence of mind; revery. --Locke.

3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." --Shak.

4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] --Nares.

Dump

Dump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.]

1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

2. 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. [U.S.] --Bartlett.

Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

Dump

Dump\, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

3. That which is dumped.

4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : dump
Spanish: dejar,
German: hinplumpsen lassen,
Japanese: どさりと落とす
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dump

n.
1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by `groveling over' a dump (see grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term `dump' now has a faintly archaic flavor.
2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations.
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dump  (v.)
c.1300, "throw down or fall with force," from a Scand. source (cf. Dan. dumpe, Norw. dumpa "to fall suddenly"). The sense of "unload en masse" is first recorded in Amer.Eng. 1784. The noun "place where refuse is dumped" is attested from 1865, originally of mining operations. Meaning "act of defecating" is from 1942. Dumpy "short and stout" is attested from 1750, but the connection is unclear.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: dump
Function: transitive verb
: to sell in quantity at a very low price; specifically : to sell abroad at less than the market price at home
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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dump operating system
1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hexadecimal or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump (see grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour.
2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large time-sharing installations.
Unix manual page: dump(1).
[The Jargon File]
(1994-12-01)

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