dump

Meanings

Noun

• A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
• A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
• That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
• An act of dumping, or its result.
• 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 unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
• An act of defecation; a defecating.
• A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
• Absence of mind; revery.
• 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.
• A thick, ill-shapen piece.
• A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
• A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Verb

• 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.
• 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
• To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
• Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Origin

• From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (whence Danish dumpe).
• See dumpling.
• Cognate with Scots dump, Norwegian dump, German Low German dumpen, Dutch dompen.