dump.
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
Meaning & usage
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
a toxic waste dump
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
An act of dumping, or its result.
The new XML dump is coming soon.
A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
an ammo dump
a munitions dump
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
This place looks like a dump.
Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
An act of defecation; a defecating.
I have to take a dump.
A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
Absence of mind; reverie.
A pile of ore or rock.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
An old kind of dance.
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
To end a romantic relationship with.
Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
To knock heavily; to stump.
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
Where this word comes from
See dumpling.
A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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