dump

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. (Internet) That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
5. An act of dumping, or its result.
6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
7. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
8. (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
9. (euphemistic, often, slang) An act of defecation; a defecating.
10. (plural-normally) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
11. Absence of mind; reverie.
12. A pile of ore or rock.
13. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
14. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
15. (Australia, Canada, historical) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
16. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Verb

1. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
3. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
4. (transitive) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
5. (transitive) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
6. (informal, transitive) To end a romantic relationship with.
7. (Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
8. (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
9. (US, transitive) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
10. (Australia, transitive) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Sinonieme

tip

garbage dump

get rid of

pour

landfill

pour out

discard

unload

throw away

rubbish dump

ditch

trash dump

abandon

drop

refuse dump

empty

throw down

put

spill

underprice

coldcock

dispose

discharge

shit

💩

refuse

disavow

disallow

rebut

disburden

print

proof

plunge

awkward

dumpsite

overflow

refute

jettison

cast aside

jilt

drop off

burden with

drain

dull

deck

dumping ground

decline

foolish

knock down

overturn

draft

Vertalings

verser

décharge

dépotoir

vertedero

scaricare

discarica

abocar

boşaltmak

basurero

Kippe

verter

vider

Deponie

Müllhalde

αποθήκη

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dʌmp/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dumpen

Verwante met Deens: dumpe

Verwante met Skots: dump

Verwante met Noors: dump

Verwante met Nederlands: dompen

In summary

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.