Meaning of Dump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city in Toledo District, Belize.
2. Donald Trump.
   US, derogatory, slang
3. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
   UK, archaic
4. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
   Northern-England
5. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
6. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
   UK, archaic
7. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
8. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
9. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
   Internet
10. An act of dumping, or its result.
11. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
12. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
13. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
    slang
14. An act of defecation; a defecating.
    euphemistic, often, slang
15. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
    plural-normally
16. Absence of mind; reverie.
17. A pile of ore or rock.
18. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    obsolete
19. An old kind of dance.
    obsolete
20. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
    Australia, Canada, historical
21. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Equivalents

Examples

“a toxic waste dump”

“The new XML dump is coming soon.”

“an ammo dump”

“a munitions dump”

“This place looks like a dump.”

“Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.”

“"Okay," he said. "We'll check out of this dump tomorrow."”

“I have to take a dump.”

“[…] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]”

“[…] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]”

“March slowly on in solemn dump […]”

“They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.”

“Tune a deploring dump […]”

“O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.”

“Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.”

“The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.”

“Mass displays to move goods in bulk are dotted here and there throughout the store, particularly at the ends of the gondolas, and considerable use is made of dump displays.”

“Although they may have a lot of clutter in promotional cardboard dump displays, that factor is likely to change.”

“I remember that Bill made a little cardboard dump, with boots and a whip, for the bookstore displays, and the people in the chain stores were so outraged by this dump they threw it in the trash.”

“The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.”

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