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Dump

noun
/dʌmp/
Word Frequency: 3.0

Definitions

1.nounA place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
"A toxic waste dump."
2.nounA car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3.nounThat which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4.nounAn act of dumping, or its result.
"The new XML dump is coming soon."
5.nounA formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
6.nounA storage place for supplies, especially military.
7.nounAn unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
"Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump."
8.noun(often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
"I have to take a dump."
9.noun(usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
10.nounAbsence of mind; revery.
11.nounA pile of ore or rock.
12.nounA melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
13.nounAn old kind of dance.
14.nounA small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
15.nounA temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
16.verbTo release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
17.verbTo discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
18.verbTo sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
19.verbTo copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
20.verbTo output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
21.verbTo end a relationship with.
22.verbTo knock heavily; to stump.
23.verbTo 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."
24.verbTo precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Synonyms

garbage dumprubbish dumpwasteyardplungefloordeckcoldcockknock downshitunderpricerefuse heaptrash dump

Rhymes With

plumpthumpclumpjumpslumphumptrumppump
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