n. | 1. | A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. | |||
1. | A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; - now used only in the plural. | ||||
2. | Absence of mind; revery. | ||||
3. | A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. | ||||
4. | An old kind of dance. | ||||
v. t. | 1. | To knock heavily; to stump. | |||
2. | To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it;
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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. | ||||
1. | a coarse term for defecation. |
Noun | 1. | dump - a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" Synonyms: shit |
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3. | dump - (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | |
Verb | 1. | dump - throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" |
2. | dump - 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" Synonyms: ditch | |
3. | dump - sell at artificially low prices Synonyms: underprice | |
4. | dump - drop in a heap or mass | |
5. | dump - fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" Synonyms: plunge | |
6. | dump - knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" |
(operating system) | dump - 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
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). |