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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dump \Dump\, n. [See {Dumpling}.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dump n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: {shit}] 2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: {garbage dump}, {trash dump}, {rubbish dump}, {wasteyard}, {refuse heap}] v 1: as of refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" 2: get rid of unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service" 3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: {underprice}] 4: drop in a heap or mass 5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: {plunge}] 6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck}, {coldcock}, {knock down}, {floor}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: 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 (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: dump1. 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)
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