dump
English
/dʌmp/
noun
Definitions
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
- (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- (usually) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
- Absence of mind; revery.
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
- (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
- (historical) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English dumpen derived from Old Norse dumpa (thump).
Origin
Old Norse
dumpa
Gloss
thump
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Dumpsville English
- ash English
- ashdump English
- bedimple English
- cart English
- crash English
- crashdump English
- cum English
- cumdump English
- dimple English
- dimplement English
- dimpleplasty English
- dimply English
- dumpable English
- dumpage English
- dumpcart English
- dumpee English
- dumper English
- dumpish English
- dumpishly English
- dumpishness English
- dumpsite English
- dumpyard English
- info English
- info-dump English
- megadump English
- minidump English
- site English
- undumpable English
- undumpish English
- yard English
- dumpen Dutch, Flemish
- domper French
- ダンプ Japanese
- dumpen Middle English
- dympull Middle English
- dumpa Old Norse
- dimpol Cebuano
- domp Westrobothnian