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Complete Definition of "dump"

English

Pronunciation
IPA|d�mp
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�mp|-�mp

Noun
en-noun

  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for #Verb|dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

#: A toxic waste dump.

  1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  2. That which is #Verb|dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  3. computing An act of #Verb|dumping, or its result.

#: The new XML dump is coming soon.

  1. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  2. An unpleasant, dirty or disreputable place.
  3. vulgar An act of defecation.

#: To take a dump.

  1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).

#: March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras.
#: Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak.
#: I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.

  1. Absence of mind; revery.
  2. mining A pile of ore or rock.
  3. obsolete A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

#: Tune a deploring dump.
#: Play me some merry dump. --Shak.

  1. obsolete An old kind of dance.

#obsolete Australia A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
Usage notes
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 Cannae.

Verb
en-verb

  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 computing To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  4. transitive (informal) To end a relationship with.
  5. transitive To knock heavily; to stump.
  6. 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.

Derived terms
dumping car, dump car
dumping cart, dump cart

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Translations
noun
Spanish: depósito, basurero m

verb - discard
Spanish: tirar a la basura, arrojar

verb - computers
Spanish: volcar en memoria

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