ALL meanings of dump
dump
D d - noun Technical meaning of dump (operating system) 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. 1
- noun dump rubbish tip 1
- noun dump unpleasant, dirty place 1
- transitive verb dump discard: rubbish, trash 1
- noun dump A site for depositing garbage. 1
- intransitive verb dump responsibility: offload 1
- transitive verb dump end a relationship 1
- noun dump computing: copying data to memory 1
- noun dump storage place 1
- transitive verb dump product: price low 1
- transitive verb dump drop, let fall 1
- transitive verb dump empty container 1
- transitive verb dump tip out of container 1
- verb with object dump to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here. 1
- verb with object dump to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning. 1
- verb with object dump to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning. 1
- verb with object dump to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract: The first baseman was dumped from the team after hitting .210 for the first half of the season. 1
- verb with object dump to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly: Don't dump your troubles on me! 1
- verb with object dump Boxing Slang. to knock down: The champion was dumped twice but won the fight. to lose (a match) intentionally: a bribe to dump a fight. 1
- verb with object dump Commerce. to put (goods or securities) on the market in large quantities and at a low price without regard to the effect on market conditions. to sell (goods) into foreign markets below cost in order to promote exports or damage foreign competition. 1
- verb with object dump Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer's internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails. 1
- verb with object dump Slang. to kill; murder: threats to dump him if he didn't pay up. 1
- verb without object dump to fall or drop down suddenly. 1
- verb without object dump to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc. 1
- verb without object dump Commerce. to offer goods for sale in large quantities at a low price. to dump below-cost goods into foreign markets. 1
- verb without object dump to release contents: a sewage pipe that dumps in the ocean. 1
- verb without object dump Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one's problems: He calls me up just to dump. 1
- verb without object dump Slang: Vulgar. to defecate. 1
- noun dump an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc. 1
- noun dump Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited. 1
- noun dump Military. a collection of ammunition, stores, etc., deposited at some point, as near a battlefront, for distribution. the ammunition, stores, etc., so deposited. 1
- noun dump the act of dumping. 1
- noun dump Mining. a runway or embankment equipped with tripping devices, from which low-grade ore, rock, etc., are dumped. the pile of ore so dumped. 1
- noun dump Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable. 1
- noun dump (in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale: Fifty copies of the best-selling paperback novel were in a dump near the checkout counter. 1
- noun dump Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer's internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium. 1
- idioms dump dump on (someone), Informal. to attack with verbal abuse; criticize harshly: Reporters never tired of dumping on certain public figures. to unload one's problems onto (another person): You never phone me without dumping on me. 1
- verb dump If you dump something somewhere, you put it or unload it there quickly and carelessly. 0
- verb dump If something is dumped somewhere, it is put or left there because it is no longer wanted or needed. 0
- countable noun dump A dump is a place where rubbish is left, for example on open ground outside a town. 0
- countable noun dump If you say that a place is a dump, you think it is ugly and unpleasant to live in or visit. 0
- countable noun dump A dump is a place where an army stores food and weapons temporarily while it is stationed in a particular place. 0
- verb dump To dump something such as an idea, policy, or practice means to stop supporting or using it. 0
- verb dump 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. 0
- verb dump If you dump someone, you end your relationship with them. 0
- verb dump If you say that a parent dumps a child with someone, you are criticizing the parent for leaving the child to be looked after by that person. 0
- verb dump To dump computer data or memory means to copy it from one storage system onto another, such as from disk to magnetic tape. 0
- countable noun dump 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. 0
- verb dump If someone dumps on you, they treat you very badly and unfairly. 0
- verb dump to drop, fall, or let fall heavily or in a mass 0