Dump
[dʌmp]
Definition
(noun.) a place where supplies can be stored; 'an ammunition dump'.
(noun.) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.
(noun.) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped.
(verb.) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; 'The truck dumped the garbage in the street'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) throw away as refuse; 'No dumping in these woods!'.
(verb.) sell at artificially low prices.
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Definition
(n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
(v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
(v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
(v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
(v. t.) An old kind of dance.
(v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
(n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
(n.) That which is dumped.
(n.) A pile of ore or rock.
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Definition
n. a deep hole in a river-bed a pool.
n. dullness or gloominess of mind ill-humour low spirits—now only used in the pl.: (Shak.) a melancholy strain any tune.—adj. Dump′ish depressed in spirits.—adv. Dump′ishly.—n. Dump′ishness.
v.t. to throw down: to unload.—n. a thud: a place for the discharge of loads or for rubbish: (pl.) money (slang).
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Examples
- Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A chearful countenance infuses a sensible complacency and serenity into my mind; as an angry or sorrowful one throws a sudden dump upon me. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The hay can be gathered by any number of sweep rakes and dumped near the stacker, which will stack on any side and in any shape. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Five barges of clay had been dumped in the river over this point to make a roof for the tunnel, but the fluid clay could not be controlled, and crept through the doors of the shield. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Large mechanical mixers are used, and, as it is made, the mixture is dumped into tanks, from which it is conveyed to a distributing tank on the top, or roof, of the form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Coal cars are dumped into hoppers under the tracks and the coal carried to the top of the piles by conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What is young Thomas in the dumps about? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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