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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), n. [See {Dumpling}.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dump \Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. {Damp}, or {Dump}, v. t.] 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. [1913 Webster] March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cann[ae]." --Trench. [1913 Webster] 2. Absence of mind; revery. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] --Nares. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dump \Dump\, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is dumped. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: dump \dump\ n. a coarse term for defecation. Syn: shit. [WordNet 1.5] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dumped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dumping}.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. {Dump} sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] 2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster] {Dumping car} or {Dumping cart}, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also {dump car}, or {dump cart}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: dump n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: {shit}, {dump}] 2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: {dump}, {garbage dump}, {trash dump}, {rubbish dump}, {wasteyard}, {waste-yard}, {dumpsite}] 3: (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs 4: a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump" v 1: throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" 2: sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man" [syn: {dump}, {ditch}] 3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: {dump}, {underprice}] 4: drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street" 5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: {plunge}, {dump}] 6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck}, {coldcock}, {dump}, {knock down}, {floor}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: dump n. 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 hex 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 flavor. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: DUMP Dial-Up Network Profile (Bluetooth, SPP, DUN)