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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUMP, n. [G.]
1. A dull gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart.
In doleful dumps.
2. Absence of mind; reverie.
3. A melancholy tune or air. [This is not an elegant word, and in America, I believe, is always used in the plural; as, the woman is in the dumps.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: perhaps from Middle Dutch dompen to immerse, topple; akin to Old Norse dumpa to thump, fall suddenly Date: 1784 transitive verb 1. a. to let fall in or as if in a heap or mass <dumped his clothes on the bed> b. to get rid of unceremoniously or irresponsibly <got dumped by his girlfriend> c. jettison <an airplane dumping gasoline> 2. slang to knock down ; beat <the man rushed out and dumped him — John Corry> 3. to sell in quantity at a very low price; specifically to sell abroad at less than the market price at home 4. to copy (data in a computer's internal storage) to an external storage or output device 5. a. to hit or throw short and softly <dump a pass to a running back> <dump a bunt down the line> b. to hit (a puck) deep into the opponent's zone in ice hockey intransitive verb 1. to fall abruptly ; plunge 2. to dump refuse II. noun Date: 1784 1. a. an accumulation of refuse and discarded materials b. a place where such materials are dumped 2. a. a quantity of reserve materials accumulated at one place b. a place where such materials are stored <ammunition dump> 3. a disorderly, slovenly, or objectionable place 4. an instance of dumping data stored in a computer 5. often vulgar an act of defecation — usually used with take

U.S. Military Dictionary

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a place for depositing rubbish. b a heap of rubbish. 2 colloq. an unpleasant or dreary place. 3 Mil. a temporary store of ammunition, provisions, etc. 4 an accumulated pile of ore, earth, etc. 5 Computing a a printout of stored data. b the process or result of dumping data. --v.tr. 1 put down firmly or clumsily (dumped the shopping on the table). 2 shoot or deposit (rubbish etc.). 3 colloq. abandon, desert. 4 Mil. leave (ammunition etc.) in a dump. 5 Econ. send (goods unsaleable at a high price in the home market) to a foreign market for sale at a low price, to keep up the price at home, and to capture a new market. 6 Computing a copy (stored data) to a different location. b reproduce the contents of (a store) externally. Phrases and idioms: dump on esp. US criticize or abuse; get the better of. dump truck a truck with a body that tilts or opens at the back for unloading. Etymology: ME perh. f. Norse; cf. Da. dumpe, Norw. dumpa fall suddenly

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dump Dump, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped. 4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dump Dump, n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras. Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak. I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dump Dump, 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. 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. Dumping car or 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dumps, dumping, dumped) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you dump something somewhere, you put it or unload it there quickly and carelessly. (INFORMAL) We dumped our bags at the nearby Grand Hotel and hurried towards the market... VERB: V n prep/adv 2. If something is dumped somewhere, it is put or left there because it is no longer wanted or needed. (INFORMAL) The getaway car was dumped near a motorway tunnel... The government declared that it did not dump radioactive waste at sea. VERB: be V-ed, V n • dumping German law forbids the dumping of hazardous waste on German soil. N-UNCOUNT 3. A dump is a place where rubbish is left, for example on open ground outside a town. ...companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump... = tip N-COUNT 4. If you say that a place is a dump, you think it is ugly and unpleasant to live in or visit. (INFORMAL) N-COUNT [disapproval] 5. To dump something such as an idea, policy, or practice means to stop supporting or using it. (INFORMAL) Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election. = ditch VERB: V n 6. If a firm or company dumps goods, it sells large quantities of them at prices far below their real value, usually in another country, in order to gain a bigger market share or to keep prices high in the home market. (BUSINESS) It produces more than it needs, then dumps its surplus onto the world market. VERB: V n 7. If you dump someone, you end your relationship with them. (INFORMAL) I thought he was going to dump me for another girl... = ditch VERB: V n 8. To dump computer data or memory means to copy it from one storage system onto another, such as from disk to magnetic tape. (COMPUTING) All the data is then dumped into the main computer. VERB: V n into n 9. A dump is a list of the data that is stored in a computer's memory at a particular time. Dumps are often used by computer programmers to find out what is causing a problem with a program. (COMPUTING) ...a screen dump. N-COUNT

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