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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Absence of mind; revery.
  • A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  • A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (''usually plural'').
  • An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
  • A place where dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  • A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  • computing An act of dumping, or its result.
  • historical Australia A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
  • mining A pile of ore or rock.
  • obsolete A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  • obsolete An old kind of dance.
  • That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  • vulgar An act of defecation.

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Verb:

  • transitive computing To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  • transitive (''informal'') To end a relationship with.
  • transitive To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  • transitive To knock heavily; to stump.
  • transitive To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  • transitive US To precipitate (esp. snow) heavily.
  • transitive US 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.

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