A Quick and Simple Dictionary

dump

1. Noun.  A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
2. Noun.  A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. Noun.  That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. Noun.  (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
5. Noun.  A storage place for supplies, especially military.
6. Noun.  An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
7. Noun.  (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating.
8. Noun.  A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (''usually plural'').
9. Noun.  Absence of mind; revery.
10. Noun.  (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
11. Noun.  (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
12. Noun.  (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
13. Noun.  (historical) (Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
14. Verb.  (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
15. Verb.  (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
16. Verb.  (transitive) (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
17. Verb.  (transitive) (informal) To end a relationship with.
18. Verb.  (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
19. Verb.  (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.
20. Verb.  (transitive) (US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.