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dump [n]

1)	a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit"

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shit

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defecation ca-ca betray

2)	a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

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dumpsite garbage_dump rubbish_dump trash_dump waste-yard wasteyard

3)	(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

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copy computer_science core_dump

dump [v]

1)	throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"

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cast_aside

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"

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ditch

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get_rid_of

3)	sell at artificially low prices

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underprice

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sell dumping

4)	drop in a heap or mass

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drop dump_truck

5)	fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

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plunge

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drop plunge diver dive

6)	knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"

Synonyms :

coldcock deck floor knock_down

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beat floor floor knockdown

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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).

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(1994-12-01)

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