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English Dictionary: 'dump'	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dump \Dump\, 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. 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. {Dumping car} [or] {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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dump \Dump\, n. [See {Dumpling}.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dump \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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; 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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
dump n. 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 hex 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 flavor. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
dump 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)