Dump

Definition: Dump

Dump

Noun

1. A coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit".

2. A piece of land where waste materials are dumped.

3. (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.

Verb

1. As of refuse; "No dumping in these woods!".

2. Get rid of unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service".

3. Sell at artificially low prices.

4. Drop in a heap or mass.

5. Fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well".

6. Knock down with force; "He decked his opponent".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dump" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Dump \Dump\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Dumped; Dumping.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Aerospace

Energy

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Military & Defense

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dump

Ejection

Unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane.

Crosswords: Dump

Now who wants to go down to the dump with me? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You dump her and I'll give you cash. (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel)

At midnight, I will dump twenty million in cash on the crowd. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

If you could take a dump sometime in this century, then we could go home where it's warm. (The Family Man; writing credit: David Diamond; David Weissman)

Dru dump you again? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Man I ain't getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Jumped up and climbed the back of a movin dump truck (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Anything fly it's all good let me dump it (Mambo No. 5 (a little bit of ...); performing artist: Lou Bega)

Stig of the Dump (2002)

The Monday Dump (2001)

Stig of the Dump (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Body Dump (reference)

• Cranes, Dump Trucks, Bulldozers : and Other Building Machines (reference)

• Dumpy the Dump Truck (Dumpy) (reference)

• Happy Man and His Dump Truck, The No. 2 (reference)

• PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook (Bk/CD-ROM) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• There Goes a Dump Truck (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• 14' CAT5e Dump Bin- 144 units (reference)

• 25' CAT5e Dump Bin - 96 units (reference)

• 6' CAT5 dump bins (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Toxic waste dump, superfund site. Credit: CDC.

Feasibility studies for potential nuclear waste dump site Conducted for Atomic Energy Commission. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bear at the garbage dump Triangulation work for military on Alcan Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A large crane places rock in the dump truck at the construction site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Surface runoff through the mine dump at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Remains of a wartime dump uncovered after passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Sugarcane harvested and loaded into high dump trailers in Bunkie, Louisiana, will be transferred into trucks for shipment to a sugar mill. Photo by David Nance. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Courier GulchX-ray fluorescence spectrometer being used to analyze how many heavy metals from mining dump are presentShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller.

Mining waste dump at Courier Gulch - hazmat command postShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller.

Air Force Dump, Amchitka. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Instead, arteries dump blood directly into veins through a passageway called a fistula. (references)

Business

Ten million tons of rubble from the 9-21 earthquake has been stored at 15 temporary dump sites with open bids to be held by local government offices to contract out its reuse. (references)

The problem of groundwater pollution is definitely extensive, and the TEPA has already undertaken island-wide soil and groundwater sampling focused on industrial and science parks, refineries, pesticides factories, and metal industries, and has listed 160 illegal dump sites which may have groundwater contamination. (references)

Economic History

Botswana

Figures cover heavy-duty equipment such as forklifts and bulldozers, but exclude dump trucks. (references)

Costa Rica

Construction equipment in high demand in Costa Rica includes tractors, backhoes, shovel loaders, asphalt mixers, and dump trucks. (references)

Ecuador

Track type tractors, cable cars for pipeline installation, motor graders, rollers, tandem rollers, pneumatic rollers, finishers, road reclaimers and dump trucks are considered best prospect products in this sector. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

In the Bantar Gebang dumpsite in Bekasi (south of Jakarta), an NGO working with children there estimates that as many as 550 children ages 7 to 15 work at the dump to help their parents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "dump": ammunition dump ♦ brain dump ♦ core dump ♦ core dump program ♦ core dump routine ♦ dump car ♦ dump cart ♦ dump cover ♦ dump doods on the market ♦ dump down ♦ dump goods ♦ dump in ♦ dump moraine ♦ dump routine ♦ dump smb. ♦ dump truck ♦ dump valve ♦ fuel dump valve ♦ garbage dump ♦ log dump ♦ loose rock dump ♦ memory dump ♦ programmed dump ♦ refuse dump ♦ rubbish dump ♦ selective dump ♦ stack Environment Control Dump machine ♦ toxic waste dump ♦ trash dump ♦ waste dump. Additional references.

Beginning with "dump": dump-bins, dump-car, dump-clearing, dump-head, dump-truck.

Ending with "dump": anti-dump, burial-dump, fuel-dump, garbage-dump, refuse-dump, rock-dump.

Albanian

depo municioni (magazine), derdh (discharge, disgorge, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tap, tip off, upset), lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), grumbull mbeturinash, hale, hedh plehrat, bëj damping, karakatinë (hovel, jalopy, ramshackle, rattletrap), zbraz ekranin, pirg plehrash, rrangallë (bucket, rattletrap, write off), skutë (corner, hide, hideaway, hiding place, hole), vend për hedhje plehrash, vrimë (aperture, bore, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, tap, unload, unlock, void), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, doff, make away with oneself, put off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكان مهمل, ‏مستودع ذخيرة, ‏مزبلة, ‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏نفاية (chaff, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, trash, waste), ‏قلاب النفاية, ‏غمر الاسواق, ‏ذخيرة (ammo, ammunition, hoard, munitions, repertory, reserve, reservoir, store), ‏ألقى (cast, cast down, deliver, fasten, lay down, lot, recite, set down, shift, throw, throw down), ‏أغرق, ‏أسقط (bring down, discount, head off, kill, knock over, lay low, leave out, let down, let fall, lodge, mow, omit, overthrow, overturn, parachute, project, push down, push over, screw off, shed, toss), ‏باع بكميات كبيرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоварвам (bring down on, land, land with, set down, shoot), складирам (cache, hoard, house, loft, store, warehouse), разтоварвам (detrain, detruck, disburden, discharge, disencumber, offload, relieve, unlade, unload, unsaddle), временен склад за муниции, отървавам се (cast aside, save one's neck), неприветливо жилище, бунище (dunghill, kitchen midden, laystall, midden, scrap heap), правя дъмпинг, изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, earth, gap, hole, hutch, leak, mesh, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, tear, vent). (various references)

Chinese 

转储 (dumps), 拋棄 (discard). (various references)

Czech

vysypat (pour out, turn out), vyklopit (fork out, shell out, shoot, spill), skládka, prodávat pod výrobní cenou, odložit na smetištì, hromada (heap, host, mound, pile, stack, welter). (various references)

Danish

strø (pour, pour out, scatter). (various references)

Dutch

stortplaats (refuse dump, rubbish tip, tip). (various references)

Esperanto

defalaĵejo (refuse dump, rubbish tip, tip), restaĵejo (refuse dump, rubbish tip, tip), ŝuti (pour, pour out, scatter). (various references)

Faeroese

díkja undir (pour, pour out, scatter), stroya (pour, pour out, scatter), stoyta (melt, pour, pour out, scatter, shed). (various references)

Farsi 

فرورفتن درخیالات واهی , حالت مالخولیاءی , تفکر (Cud, Recollection, Reflection, Thought), زباله (Garbage, Ordure, Rubbish), خیال (Design, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith), جنس رابقیمت خیلی ارزان فروختن , اشغال (Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash). (various references)

Finnish

varastopaikka (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), varastoalue (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), puutavaravarasto (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), purkamisvarasto (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), muodostuma (formation), maakasa (mound, scree), kumpu (hill, hillock, knoll), kivikasa (mound, scree), jätemaakasa (mound, scree), jätekivikasa (mound, scree), esiintymä (deposit). (various references)

French

vidage, déverser, déposer. (various references)

German

depot (deposit, depository, depot, magazine, securities deposit account, strong room, warehouse), drecknest (hole), müllhalde, Ablaßventil (dump valve, fuel dump valve, fuel jettison), abladen (land, off-load, tip out, to unload, unburden, unload, vent), Ablagerung (debris, deposit, deposition, disposal, maturation, seasoning, sediment, sedimentation, settlement), Halde (acclivity, heap, hill, hillside, landfill, mound, slagheap, slope), Holzlagerplatz (timber yard), kaff (hole), Kippe (butt, ciggy, fag, precarious situation, spring, stub, tip, tip over, toss up), lagern (be encamped, be stored, camp, encamp, lair, lay down, lay up, lie, rest, shelve, store, to camp), Abfuhr in Deponien, müllabladeplatz (garbage dump, rubbish dump, rubbish tip), wegwerfen (cast away, discard, jettison, pitch out, scrap, throw away, throw out, throwaway, to throw away, toss away, toss out, trash), müllkippe (garbage dump, tip), nest (bed, den, form, hideout, hole, lair, little place, nest, one-horse town), schütten (pour, pour out, scatter, shed, slop, spill, throw, tip), Schnellablaß (dump valve, fuel dump valve, fuel jettison), schuttabladeplatz (junk yard, tip), schutthaufen (heap of rubble, pile of rubble), Speicherauszug (snapshot), stapeln (pile, pile up, stack, store), verklappen, verschleudern (scatter, squander, to squander), wanzenbude (hole), loch (aperture, can, cavity, clink, cunt, gap, hole, hovel, jug, leak, notch, opening, pit, pocket, pool, puncture). (various references)

Greek 

σκουπιδότοποσ, σωρός (pile, stack), μεταποθήκευμα (storage snapshot), πλευρικά κορρήματα (mound, scree), επίχωμα υπερκειμένων (spoilbank, tip), ταχεία εκκένωση (dump valve, fuel dump valve, fuel jettison). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום מוז� ח, מזבל�" (ashpit, dunghill, garbage, midden), מצבור (hoard, mass, pile), ל�"ציף את �"שוק, שפך (estuary, heap, mouth of river), חורב�" (drought, ruin, ruined house, waste). (various references)

Hungarian

puffanás (flop, flump, plump, squelch, thud, thump, thunk, whang, whoomp, whoomph), katonai raktár. (various references)

Indonesian

tempat pembuangan sampah, membuang (banish, cast, outcast, reject), gardu (bus shelter, depot, guardhouse, magazine, relay station, sentry post). (various references)

Italian

vuotare (deplenish, deplete, empty, evacuate, exhaust, flush, rifle, turn out, void), valvola di scarico rapido (dump valve, fuel dump valve, fuel jettison, unloader valve), terreno di deposito (spoilbank, tip), scaricare rifiuti, scaricare (deduct, disburden, discharge, disembogue, empty, exhaust, flow, land, offload, release, relieve, run down, set down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind, vent), piè di bosco (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), imposto (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), cumulo di rifiuti, ammasso (accumulation, cluster, drift, hoard, mass, stack), abbandonare (abandon, abdicate, bolt, desert, discard, dismiss, fail, forsake, give up, leave, leave behind, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, Slough, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ダン�"ング関税 (anti-dumping duties, da Vinci, dump truck), 捨て� � (dumping ground), 捨� � (dumping ground). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すてば (dumping ground), ダンプ . (various references)

Korean 

하치장 (dumps). (various references)

Manx

tashtey (cache, deposit, dew, fund; damp, hoard, keep, lay up, lodgement, put by, reserve price, save, saving; stockpile, stock up, store, stow; dumping, stowage, treasure), tasht (cache, hoard, magazine, reserve, store), carnane (cairn, carn, heap, hutch, kitty, mound, rampart). (various references)

Norwegian

dumpe, søppelhaug. (various references)

Pig Latin

umpday

Portuguese

despejo (ejectment, eviction), despejar (clean out, exhaust, pour, scatter, shed, shower), descarregar (disburden, discharge, empty, evacuate, issue, land, throw, unburden, uncart, unlade, unload, unpack, unship), derramar (drop, effuse, flow, outpour, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, shed, spill, strew), depósito de terras (heap, tip), depósito de lixo, válvula de esvaziador rápido (dump valve, fuel dump valve, fuel jettison), lixeira (laystall), exploração a céu aberto (at grass, spoilbank, tip), esvaziar (bail, bleed, buzz, clean out, clear, crush, deflate, deplenish, deplete, empty, gut, pour out, rifle, scoop, turn out, unpack), entornar (effuse, flow, overthrow, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, spill, turn over, upset), elevação pequena (mound, scree), carregadouro (bank ground, banking ground, brow, landing, log dump, processing yard, ramp, rampsite, skids, yard), aterro (bank, banking, butt, earthwork, embankment, goaf, hilling). (various references)

Romanian

descãrca (debark, discharge, disembark, empty, fire, shoot, unburden, unload), depozit provizoriu de muniţii, depozit (bank, deposit, depot, repository, stack, stock, storage, store, store room, storehouse, stores, warehouse), zgomot surd (dead sound, flump, thud), teren unde se aruncã gunoi, rãsturna un vagonet, loviturã surdã (flop), arunca gunoi. (various references)

Russian 

свинцовый кружок, штабель угля или руды, коренастый (cobby, squat, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thickset, well-set), оставлять (desert, forsake, lay down, leave, quit, relinquish, retire, vacate), опрокидывать (capsize, fall over, keel over, overset, overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, pull down, tilt, trip, upend, upset, upturn), мелкая монета (doit), бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, slung, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss), дыра (hole, jag, rent, tear). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svaliti (knock down, shift, topple), odbačen (cast off, castoff, derelict, forlorn, off-cast, reject, thrown, turndown), istovariti (detrain, discharge, download, unload), đubrište (laystall, midden). (various references)

Spanish

basurero (catlap, dustman, garbage collector, garbage man, refuse dump, rubbish tip, scavenger, tip, wastebasket), vertedero (chute, rubbish dump, shoot, spillway, tip). (various references)

Swedish

soptipp (landfill), dumpa. (various references)

Thai

อึ (cack, Eartha (Kitt), kak, log, Richard the Third), ที่ทิ้งขยะ, ทิ้ง (ditch). (various references)

Turkish

damping yapmak, dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, effuse, empty, found, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, shower, slop, slosh on, spill, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom), yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), çöplük (cesspool, dumping ground, rubbish dump), çöp yığını (dumping, midden). (various references)

Ukrainian

скидати (bare, cast, cast down, cast off, deduct, deject, depose, detrude, dismount, jettison, kick off, lay off, precipitate, remove, shuck off, subvert, throw down, throw off, toss), смітник (kitchen-maiden, raffle, scrap heap, scrapyard, sump), тимчасовий лісосклад, купа мотлоху, в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, slammer, ward), відвал (heap, stockpile), влаштовувати демпінг, вивантажувати (disembark, empty, shore, unship), перевалочний пункт. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật ngắn bè bè, tiếng ném phịch xuống, tiếng đổ ầm, nơi rác rưởi bừa bãi tiếng rơi bịch, nơi đổ rác (tip). (various references)

domp. (various references)

damp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dump": dumpcart, dumpcarts, dumped, dumper, dumpers, dumpier, dumpiest, dumpily, dumpiness, dumpinesses, dumping, dumpings, dumpish, dumpling, dumplings, dumps, dumpster, dumpsters, dumpy. (additional references)

Words containing "dump": antidumping. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dampf, dampi, dampt, damtp, daup, demp, dhm, dimp, dlum, dmu, Dompok, Duhm, duim, dulm, dum, duma, dume, D'ume, dumm, dummm, dumn, dumpi, dumpl, Dunap, dunp, dupf, dupm, dupr, durp, dutp, fump, Kump, Udfp, udp, Udpb, Udsp, wump. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dup, mud, pud, ump.

-2 letters: mu, um, up.

+1 letter: dumps, dumpy, umped.

+2 letters: bumped, dumped, dumper, humped, jumped, lumped, mudcap, mumped, plumed, podium, pumped, spumed, tumped.

+3 letters: chumped, clumped, crumped, deplume, dumpers, dumpier, dumpily, dumping, dumpish, flumped, grumped, gumdrop, humphed, impound, imputed, mudcaps, mudflap, mudpack, plumbed, plumped, podiums, pumiced, rumpled, slumped, stumped, thumped, trumped, umpired, whumped.

+4 letters: bumpered, campused, compound, computed, crumpled, deplumed, deplumes, displume, dummkopf, dumpcart, dumpiest, dumpings, dumpling, dumpster, gazumped, gumdrops, impounds, impudent, impugned, impulsed, mudflaps, mudpacks, mudpuppy, multiped, paludism, pendulum, peplumed, perfumed, peridium, permuted, plumaged, plumiped, presumed, pudendum, pummeled, puppydom, pygidium, pyxidium, repumped, shlumped, sumpweed, undamped, unmapped, unprimed.