'DUMP' definitions:

Definition of 'Dump'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Dump'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Dump'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Dump'

From: 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]

Synonyms of 'dump'

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Acronyms for 'DUMP'

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