Dump

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), n. [See {Dumpling}.]
     A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by
     boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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 or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; --
        now used only in the plural.
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              March slowly on in solemn dump.       --Hudibras.
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              Doleful dumps the mind oppress.       --Shak.
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              I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.
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     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.
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     2. Absence of mind; revery. --Locke.
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     3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.]
        "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."
        --Shak.
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     4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] --Nares.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dump \Dump\, n.
     1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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     2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
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     3. That which is dumped.
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     4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dump \dump\ n.
     a coarse term for defecation.
  
     Syn: shit.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), 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.
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     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.
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     {Dumping car} or {Dumping 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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dump
       n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: {shit}]
       2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: {garbage
          dump}, {trash dump}, {rubbish dump}, {wasteyard}, {waste-yard},
           {dumpsite}]
       3: (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer
          storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
       v 1: throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"
       2: 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" [syn: {ditch}]
       3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: {underprice}]
       4: drop in a heap or mass
       5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
          {plunge}]
       6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck},
           {coldcock}, {knock down}, {floor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  350 Moby Thesaurus words for "dump":
     Augean stables, Parthian shot, abandon, abase, abasement, abash,
     abjure, abundance, accumulation, affront, amassment, ammo dump,
     archives, armory, arsenal, artillery park, aspersion,
     atomic arsenal, atrocity, attic, back answer, backlog, bank,
     basement, baste, batter, bay, beat, belabor, bin, bog,
     bonded warehouse, bookcase, bordello, box, break bulk, brickbat,
     bring down, bring low, brothel, budget, buffet, bunker, buttery,
     cargo dock, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cathouse,
     caustic remark, cede, cellar, cesspool, chest, chuck, chuck out,
     clear the trade, clip joint, cloaca, cloaca maxima, close out,
     closet, collection, colluvies, comeback, comedown, commissariat,
     commissary, compost heap, conservatory, contempt, contumely,
     convert, convert into cash, cornucopia, crack, crate, crib, crush,
     cumulation, cupboard, cut, cut under, cutting remark, debase,
     debasement, deep-six, deflation, degrade, demean, den,
     den of thieves, deposit, depository, depot, descent, despite, dig,
     diminish, disburden, discard, discharge, disgorge, disgrace,
     dispense with, dispose of, ditch, dive, do without, dock, drain,
     drawer, drop, drub, dump on, dunghill, dustheap, effect a sale,
     eighty-six, eliminate, embarrassment, empty, enormity, exchequer,
     fleer, fleshpots, flout, flouting, foolery, forgo, forswear,
     garbage dump, get along without, get quit of, get rid of,
     get shut of, gibe, gibing retort, give away, give up, glory hole,
     godown, gun park, gyp joint, hammer, hangdog look, have done with,
     heap, hoard, hold, hole, hovel, humbled pride, humiliation, hutch,
     indignity, injury, insult, inventory, jab, jape, jeer, jeering,
     jest, jettison, jilt, job, joint, junk, junkyard, kiss good-bye,
     kitchen midden, lair, lam, lambaste, larder, leg-pull, letdown,
     library, liquidate, locker, lower, lumber room, lumberyard,
     magasin, magazine, make a sacrifice, make a sale, manure pile,
     market, marsh, mass, material, materials, materiel, merchandise,
     midden, mire, mixen, mock, mockery, mortification, move, munitions,
     off-load, offense, offload, outrage, park, part with, parting shot,
     pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, pile, plague spot, plenitude, plenty,
     provisionment, provisions, put down, put-down, put-on, quagmire,
     quip, quitclaim, rack, rations, recant, reduce, refuse heap,
     reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renounce, repertoire,
     repertory, repository, resell, reservoir, resign, retail, retract,
     rick, rookery, rubbish heap, rude reproach, sacrifice, scoff,
     scrap, scurrility, self-abasement, self-abnegation,
     self-diminishment, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out,
     sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale,
     septic tank, set down, setdown, sewer, shame, shamefacedness,
     shamefastness, shelf, short answer, sink, slam, slap, slough, slum,
     spare, sporting house, stable, stack, stack room, stews, stock,
     stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store, storehouse,
     storeroom, stores, sty, sump, supplies, supply base, supply depot,
     supply on hand, surrender, swamp, swear off, swipe, take down,
     tank, taunt, tenement, terminate the account, the slums,
     throw away, throw down, throw out, throw over, throw overboard,
     throw up, tip, toss out, toss overboard, trash pile, treasure,
     treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trip up, tumbledown shack,
     turn into money, turn over, twit, unburden, uncomplimentary remark,
     undercut, undersell, unlade, unload, unpack, unship, vacate, vat,
     vault, verbal thrust, waive, wallop, warehouse, warren, wasteyard,
     wholesale, whorehouse, wine cellar, yield
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  dump
       
           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).
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-01)