dump
noun
- place where garbage ends up
verb
- to release waste, often in an improper manner
- get rid of
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dʌmp/ / [dɐm̥p]
name
Etymology: From dump, as a pun on Trump.
- Donald Trump.
noun
Etymology: Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).
- A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
- To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.”
- To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
“to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge”
- To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- To end a romantic relationship with.
“Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.”
- To knock heavily; to stump.
- To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
“We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.”
- To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
“Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]”