dump

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Noun

1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
   • a toxic waste dump
2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
4. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
5. An act of dumping, or its result.
   • The new XML dump is coming soon.
6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
7. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
   • an ammo dump
8. 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.
9. An act of defecation; a defecating.
   • I have to take a dump.
10. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
11. Absence of mind; reverie.
12. A pile of ore or rock.
13. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
14. An old kind of dance.
15. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
16. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
17. ↑ Robert Nares, A Glossary, London: Robert Triphook, 1822, p. 141.

Verb

1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
   • to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
6. To end a romantic relationship with.
   • Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
7. To knock heavily; to stump.
8. 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.
9. To precipitate (especially snow or rain) heavily.
10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Noun

1. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
2. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

Noun

1. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

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