Dump
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dump
n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn:
{shit}, {dump}]
2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn:
{dump}, {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
4: a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump"
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: {dump}, {ditch}]
3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: {dump}, {underprice}]
4: drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage
in the street"
5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
{plunge}, {dump}]
6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck},
{coldcock}, {dump}, {knock down}, {floor}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 (8 July 2008)
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).
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-01)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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