Definitions for dump
dʌmpdump

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shit, dumpnoun

   a coarse term for defecation

   "he took a shit"

2. dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsitenoun

   a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

3. dumpnoun

   (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

4. dumpverb

   a place where supplies can be stored

   "an ammunition dump"

5. dumpverb

   throw away as refuse

   "No dumping in these woods!"

6. dump, ditchverb

   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"

7. dump, underpriceverb

   sell at artificially low prices

8. dumpverb

   drop (stuff) in a heap or mass

   "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"

9. plunge, dumpverb

   fall abruptly

   "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

10. deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floorverb

    knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dumpnoun

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

   A toxic waste dump.

2. dumpnoun

   A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

3. dumpnoun

   That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

4. dumpnoun

   An act of dumping, or its result.

   The new XML dump is coming soon.

5. dumpnoun

   A storage place for supplies, especially military.

6. dumpnoun

   An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

7. dumpnoun

   An act of defecation; a defecating.

   To take a dump.

8. dumpnoun

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

9. dumpnoun

   Absence of mind; revery.

10. dumpverb

    To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

11. dumpverb

    To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.

12. dumpverb

    To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

13. dumpverb

    To end a relationship with.

14. dumpverb

    To knock heavily; to stump.

15. dumpverb

    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.

16. dumpverb

    To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

17. dumpnoun

    A pile of ore or rock.

18. dumpnoun

    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

19. dumpnoun

    An old kind of dance.

20. dumpnoun

    A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

21. Etymology: Akin to Old Norse dumpa (> Danish dumpe)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DUMPnoun

   Etymology: from dom, stupid, Dutch.

   1. Sorrow; melancholy; sadness.

   Sing no more ditties, sing no mo
   Of dumps so dull and heavy;
   The frauds of men were ever so,
   Since Summer first was leafy. William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing.

   Visit by night your lady’s chamber window
   With some sweet consort: to their instruments
   Tune a deploring dump; the night’s dead silence
   Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. William Shakespeare.

   Funerals with stately pomp
   March slowly on, in solemn dump. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 1.

   The squire who fought on bloody stumps,
   By future bards bewail’d in doleful dumps. John Gay, Pastorals.

   2. Absence of mind; reverie.

   This shame dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company. John Locke.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DUMP

   Deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP), also known as deoxyuridylic acid or deoxyuridylate in its conjugate acid and conjugate base forms, respectively, is a deoxynucleotide. It is an intermediate in the metabolism of deoxyribonucleotides.

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1. dump

   A dump refers to a site for depositing waste materials. It can also refer to the act of disposing of waste materials or getting rid of something unnecessary or undesirable. In computing, it can refer to copying raw data from one place to another with no processing involved.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dumpnoun

   a thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing

2. Dumpverb

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

3. Dumpverb

   absence of mind; revery

4. Dumpverb

   a melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune

5. Dumpverb

   an old kind of dance

6. Dumpverb

   to knock heavily; to stump

7. Dumpverb

   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

8. Dumpnoun

   a car or boat for dumping refuse, etc

9. Dumpnoun

   a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc

10. Dumpnoun

    that which is dumped

11. Dumpnoun

    a pile of ore or rock

12. Etymology: [See Dumpling.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dump

   dump is a Unix program used to back up file systems. It operates on blocks, below filesystem abstractions such as files and directories. Dump can back up a file system to a tape or another disk. It is often used across a network by piping its output through bzip2 then SSH. A dump utility first appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dump

   dump, v.t. to throw down: to unload.—n. a thud: a place for the discharge of loads, or for rubbish: (pl.) money (slang). [Cf. Dan. dumpe, Norw. dumpa, to fall plump.]

2. Dump

   dump, n. dullness or gloominess of mind, ill-humour, low spirits—now only used in the pl.: (Shak.) a melancholy strain, any tune.—adj. Dump′ish, depressed in spirits.—adv. Dump′ishly.—n. Dump′ishness. [Prob. related to Old Dut. domp, mist; or Ger. dumpf, gloomy.]

3. Dump

   dump, n. a deep hole in a river-bed, a pool. [Prob. Norse dump, a pit.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 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.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dump

   A temporary storage area, usually in the open, for bombs, ammunition, equipment, or supplies.

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1. dump

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2. DUMP

   What does DUMP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DUMP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Beat
   • Computer Science
   • Copy
   • Defecation
   • Discard
   • Drop
   • Get Rid Of

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'dump' in Verbs Frequency: #830

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dump in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dump in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of dump in a Sentence

1. Charles Krauthammer:

   If she had come clean-- which, of course, has never happened in the history of the Clintons-- they might have been able to do a document dump at the beginning, get it out of the way, a month or two ago, but now, they've been ordered by a judge, and there’ll be a release every other week, I think, for weeks and weeks, which keeps the story going forever, even if there isn't any smoking gun in any of these individual releases.

2. Donald Trump:

   They dump the cars and the VCRs and everything else.

3. Siobhan Morden:

   It is a price risk for holdouts, if they dump (all their bonds) at the same time, it is their loss.

4. Elisha Frank:

   We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis.

5. Jamaica Lambie:

   We were getting people out of cars. It had a net positive, now it has this huge net negative. It's not right to see bikeshare and micromobility as something a tech company can come in and dump on a city and pull away.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dump
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dump
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dump
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dump
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dump
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dump
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Dump
10. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
    https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf