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What (who) is Dump - definition
CHEMICAL COMPOUND
DUMP; Deoxyuridylic acid; C9H13N2O8P
dump
(dumps, dumping, dumped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you dump something somewhere, you put it or unload it there quickly and carelessly. (INFORMAL)
We dumped our bags at the nearby Grand Hotel and hurried towards the market...
VERB: V n prep/adv
2.
If something is dumped somewhere, it is put or left there because it is no longer wanted or needed. (INFORMAL)
The getaway car was dumped near a motorway tunnel...
The government declared that it did not dump radioactive waste at sea.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
• dumping
German law forbids the dumping of hazardous waste on German soil.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
A dump is a place where rubbish is left, for example on open ground outside a town.
...companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump...
= tip
N-COUNT
4.
If you say that a place is a dump, you think it is ugly and unpleasant to live in or visit. (INFORMAL)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
5.
To dump something such as an idea, policy, or practice means to stop supporting or using it. (INFORMAL)
Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
= ditch
VERB: V n
6.
If a firm or company dumps goods, it sells large quantities of them at prices far below their real value, usually in another country, in order to gain a bigger market share or to keep prices high in the home market. (BUSINESS)
It produces more than it needs, then dumps its surplus onto the world market.
VERB: V n
7.
If you dump someone, you end your relationship with them. (INFORMAL)
I thought he was going to dump me for another girl...
= ditch
VERB: V n
8.
To dump computer data or memory means to copy it from one storage system onto another, such as from disk to magnetic tape. (COMPUTING)
All the data is then dumped into the main computer.
VERB: V n into n
9.
A dump is a list of the data that is stored in a computer's memory at a particular time. Dumps are often used by computer programmers to find out what is causing a problem with a program. (COMPUTING)
...a screen dump.
N-COUNT
dump
<operating system> 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
hexadecimal 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 flavour.
2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large
time-sharing installations.
Unix manual page: dump(1).
[Jargon File ]
(1994-12-01)
dump
I
n.
place for dumping
(esp. AE)
1) a garbage, trash dump; the town dump (BE prefers refuse tip)
dilapidated place
(colloq.)
2) a real dump (this town is a real dump)
II
v. (slang) (AE) to dump on ('to project bad experiences or feelings on') (I have enough troubles of my own--don't dump on me)
Wikipedia
Deoxyuridine monophosphate
Deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP), also known as deoxyuridylic acid or deoxyuridylate in its conjugate acid and conjugate base forms, respectively, is a deoxynucleotide.
It is an intermediate in the metabolism of deoxyribonucleotides.
Examples of use of Dump
1. Local officials were concerned massive rain dump...
2. Let‘s just dump the Republicans. meyersonh@washpost.com
3. Local authorities have decided to temporarily use an old dump at Tagarades, Thessaloniki’s answer to Athens’s Ano Liosia dump, in a street cleanup.
4. Residents from the Mavrorachi area, where a new dump is located, also protested against the operation of the dump near their homes.
5. "They‘re orchestrating this to dump in our laps," Mullen said.