dump /ˈdʌmp/
垃圾場(vt.)切斷電源,傾倒,傾銷(vi.)倒垃圾,傾銷商品
dump
傾卸; 傾印
dump
傾印 倒出
Dump n. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.]
Dump, n.
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.
March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras.
Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak.
I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.
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 Cannæ.”
2. Absence of mind; revery.
3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] “Tune a deploring dump.” “Play me some merry dump.”
4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.]
Dump v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.]
1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.]
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.]
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.
Dump, n.
1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped.
4. Mining A pile of ore or rock.
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dump
n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: shit]
2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: garbage
dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard,
dumpsite]
3: (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer
storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
v 1: throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"
2: sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or
irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of
service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love
with a rich man" [syn: ditch]
3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: underprice]
4: drop in a heap or mass
5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
plunge]
6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck,
coldcock, knock down, floor]