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WASTE DUMP

Specialty Definition: WASTE DUMP

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Environment

A deposit at the surface of the mine of mined material, e. g. coal(stockpile), dirt, preparation rejects(waste dump, spoilbank). Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The area where mine waste or spoil materials are disposed of or piled. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: WASTE DUMP

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Screenplays

It's a toxic waste dump. (Batman Beyond; writing credit: Hilary Bader; Stan Berkowitz)

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

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Image Slideshow: WASTE DUMP

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: WASTE DUMP

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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.

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

Waste Dump at Moran TunnelChampagne CreekSoutheast IdahoUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Steve Moore.

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

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Expression: WASTE DUMP

Expression using "WASTE DUMP": toxic waste dump. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: WASTE DUMP

Language Translations for "WASTE DUMP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vold af afgravet materiale (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stort (attle, burrow, controlled tipping, depositing earth from cut, deposition, landfill, landfilling, rubbish, spoilbank, stockpile, tipping), steenberg (spoilbank, stockpile), slakkenberg (spoilbank, stockpile), mijnstort (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

French

  

terril de charbon. (various references)

   

German

  

Halde (acclivity, heap, hill, hillside, landfill, mound, slagheap, slope), Abraumhalde (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωροί άνθρακα (spoilbank, stockpile), χώρος συσσώρευσης σκάρτων (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

Italian

  

terreno di scarico (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asteway umpday

   

Portuguese

  

pilhas de carvão (spoilbank, stockpile), escombreiras (spoilbank, stockpile), entulheiras (spoilbank, stockpile). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pilas de carbón (spoilbank, stockpile), escombreras (dump, spoilbank, stockpile, tip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WASTE DUMP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-s-t-u-w"

-2 letters: dampest, stamped, stumped, swamped, updates.

-3 letters: adepts, amused, datums, demast, masted, meatus, medusa, musted, mutase, pasted, paused, sauted, septum, spumed, tamped, taupes, tawsed, tumped, update, wadset, wampus, wasted.

-4 letters: adept, adust, amuse, dames, damps, dates, datum, dauts, dawts, duets, dumas, dumps, dupes, mated, mates, mauds, mauts, mawed, meads, meats, mused, muted, mutes, paste.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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