dumpn.1
/dʌmp/, U.S. /dəmp/ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > abstraction, absent-mindedness > [noun] > instance of
studyc1300
dump1523
brown studyc1555
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 14 So depely drownyd I was in this dumpe, encraumpyshed so sore was my conceyte, That, me to rest, I lent me to a stumpe of an oke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 531 I dumpe, I fall in a dumpe or musyng upon thynges, je me amuse..He dumpeth nowe a days more than he was wont to do.
1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxii. 17/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II [They] were in a great dumpe and perplexitie, and in a maner were at their wits end.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Donner la muse à, to put into a dumpe, to make to studie, or pause about a matter.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 146 To rouze him from Lethargick dump, He tweak'd his Nose with gentle thump.
c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §45 The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company.
2. A fit of melancholy or depression; now only in plural (colloquial and more or less humorous): Heaviness of mind, dejection, low spirits.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
dumpa1535
mubble fubbles1589
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
mood1609
blues1741
mopes1742
gloom1744
humdrums1757
dismals1764
horror1768
mournfuls1794
doldrum1811
doleful1822
glumps1825
jim-jams1896
katzenjammer1897
the sniffles1903
mopery1907
joes1916
woofits1918
cafard1924
jimmies1928
the blahs1969
downer1970
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. sig. A.iiv What heapes of heuines, hath of late fallen among vs alredy, with which some of our poore familie be fallen into such dumpes.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 179 Nor lacke throwe men into desperate doompes.
1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xi, in Poems (1870) 47 Into howe sorrowfull a dumpe, or sounden extasie he fell.
c1650 Chevy Chase in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 313 For Witherington needs must I wayle As one in doleful dumpes.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 9 His head like one in doleful dump, Between his knees.
1714 Swift's Corr. in Wks. (1841) II. 513 He tells me that he left you [Swift] horridly in the dumps.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Down in the dumps, low spirited, melancholy.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 23 Apr. If I am dismal don't I give you the benefit of the dumps?
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > dirge or lament
threne?a1475
elegy?1521
dumpa1556
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
threnos1601
planctusa1612
death song1613
monody1623
threnody1634
trental1648
lament1698
myriologue1824
keen1830
planh1843
threnode1858
myrology1892
sorrow song1903
lamento1944
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iij Then twang with our sonets, and twang with our dumps, And heyhough from our heart, as heauie as lead lumpes.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Rr6 Some good old dumpe, that Chaucers mistresse knew.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 421 The funerall song or Dump of a most ancient British Bard.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. ii. 84 To their Instruments Tune a deploring dumpe . View more context for this quotation
1706 J. Addison Rosamond i. iv What heart of stone Can hear her moan, And not in dumps so doleful join?
a1852 T. Moore Vision ii. 33 Like..an Irish Dump (‘the words by Moore’) At an amateur concert screamed in score.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dumpn.2
A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape.
a. A roughly-cast leaden counter, used by boys in some games. (In quot. 1859 applied to the disk of metal or ‘blank’ before being coined.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > counter or button for throwing
dump1770
nicker1888
knicker1899
1770–90 D. Kilner Village School ix, in C. M. Yonge Storehouse of Stories (1870) 369 I could buy..a top too, and some dumps, and a new skipping-rope.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Dumps are also small pieces of lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 253 The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
1827 T. Hood Retrospective Rev. v My dumps are made of more than lead.
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 159 Playing at dumps, or pitch in the hole.
1859 All Year Round 2 July 239 The golden dumps that are passed into the Weighing Room..are distributed amongst the balances.
b. A name of certain small coins; esp. a coin worth 1s. 3d. formerly current in Australia, made by punching a disk out of the middle of a Spanish dollar and milling the edge. Hence (slang or colloquial) used allusively for a small coin or amount; and in plural for money in general. Colloquial phrase not to care a dump: not to care at all; to regard as unimportant.
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]
to put in no chaloir1477
not to care1490
to let the world wag (as it will)c1525
not to care a chip1556
to hang loose (to)1591
(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632
not to careor matter a farthing1647
not to care a doit1660
(not) to care twopencea1744
not to give a curse (also damn)1763
not to care a dump1821
not to care beans1833
not to care a darn1840
not to give a darn1840
not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861
not to care (also give) a whoop1867
(to care) not a fouter1871
not to care (or give) a toss1876
not to give (also care) a fuck1879
je m'en fiche1889
not to care a dit(e)1907
je m'en fous1918
not to give a shit1918
to pay no nevermind1946
not to give a sod1949
not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960
not to give a stuff1974
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively > a small coin
orkyn1542
liarda1549
solda1549
scute1594
orkey1648
sock1688
styca1705
dump1821
scuddick1823
bit1829
posh1830
rag1866
tosser1935
1821 Bank of New S. Wales Notice 5 May in Hyman Coins Austral. (1893) iii. 59 The following Description of illegal Coin is much in Circulation:—Dollars and Dumps that are not Silver.
1842 R. H. Barham Sir Rupert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 35 When a gentleman jumps In the river at midnight for want of ‘the dumps’.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 315 Mrs. Dodger didn't care a ‘dump’ if she didn't.
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxv. 301 It's all gone, every dump.
1852 J. West Hist. Tasmania II. 141 Dumps struck out from dollars.
1870 H. W. Henfrey Guide Eng. Coins (1891) 293 The pieces (halfpence and farthings) of 1717 and 1718 are much thicker and smaller than those of the following dates, and generally go by the name of dumps.
1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ iv. 116 One of those questions..that..does not matter a dump.
1908 G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 70 I do not care a dump whether they know the alphabet.
c. A kind of bolt or nail used in ship-building (also dump-bolt, dump-nail); see quots.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 7 Nails, Dump, are round, and have long flat points.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dump-bolt, a short bolt driven in to the plank and timber as a partial security previous to the thorough fastenings being put in.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 60/1 The fastenings..in the deck-planking..consist of nails or dumps (short bolts) driven into, not through the beams.
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d. A kind of quoit made of rope for playing on board ship.
e. A local name for a short thick skittle; plural the game played with these.
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1895 W. Sussex County Times 4 May 8/5 A game known as ‘dumps’.
f. A globular sweetmeat, a ‘bull's-eye’.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > globular sweet
aniseed ball1700
bull's-eye1825
brandy-ball1849
blackball1851
dump1869
cake ball1896
gobstopper1906
gulab jamun1917
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 8 Some of us..having sucked much parliament and dumps at my only charges.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. i. 2 The big Tom Waldron supplied the little Phil Penniloe with dumps and penny-puddings.
g. Applied to a short and stout person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person
knarc1405
hoddy-doddya1556
trunk1586
truncheon1601
stump1602
fubs1614
dumpling1617
punch1669
Punchinello1669
spud1688
knur1691
knurl1691
runt1699
squab1699
swad1706
humpty-dumpty1785
junt1787
knurlinga1796
pudge1808
stumpie1820
nugget1825
podge1834
dump1840
dumpy1868
pyknic1925
mesomorph1940
1840 E. Howard Jack Ashore xviii. (Stratm.) Her dump of a daughter.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 53 A puffy, thickset, vulgar little dump of an old man.
1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman v. 94 The little dump of a rector made an eloquent address on the importance of observing the laws.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
dumpn.3
local.
A deep hole in the bed of a river or pond.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > other types of hole
posthole1703
dump1788
bladder-hole1789
moss-hag1790
money pit1820
butt-hole1897
sand-hole1897
scratch hole1923
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 327 Dump, a deep hole of water; feigned at least to be bottomless.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Dump, a deep hole in the bed of a river, or in a pool of water.
1887 J. Ruskin Hortus Inclusus 28 An Alpine stream..becomes a series of humps and dumps wherever it is shallow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dumpn.4
1.
a. (Chiefly U.S.) A pile or heap of refuse or other matter ‘dumped’ or thrown down. spec. A pile of ore, earth, etc., which accumulates during mining operations; esp. U.S. and South African. Cf. mine-dump n. at mine n. Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > heap or accumulation of
middena1425
dust-heap1654
refuse heap1816
detritus1849
tip1863
dump1865
waste-heap1873
junkyard1885
slag heap1917
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish
rough1677
old man1747
small1778
stent1778
vestry1784
gobbin1811
spoil1838
stowing1860
dump1865
muck1883
spoil-heap1883
mine-dump1909
1865 Harper's Mag. Feb. 287/1 A number of Mexicans were at work getting out the ore and..I took a seat a little on one side of the ‘dump’.
1871 Rept. in Daily News 21 Sept. The dump is being overhauled and the pay ore selected for the company's mill.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters ii. ii. 81 A canyon..was here walled across by a dump of rolling stones.
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 49 (note) A ‘dump’ is the mass of refuse matter which gathers at the mouth of a mine.
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 8 It was pointed out as an ash-dump from a steamer.
1895 St. James's Gaz. 10 Sept. 16/1 Small chips of quartz which I took from the dump of this working.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 3/3 Such statements as that..a mine dump can contain 40,000 tons, and that such a dump consists of 10 per cent. of pitchblende.
1931 J. Mockford Khama xxiii. 155 The grey dumps of the world's greatest gold mines.
1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country ii. viii. 174 He..looked out over the veld, out to the great white dumps of the mines, like hills under the sun.
1956 H. G. Dines Metallif. Mining Region S.W. Eng. I. iv. 117 The dumps were being worked over for uranium ores in 1907.
b. The practice of dumping goods (see dump v.1 2c); also, the goods dumped.
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society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > exporting > types of exporting practices
dumping1883
dump1884
Klondiking1927
1884 Congress. Rec. 1 May 3663/1 It is this dump that we want to stop; it is protection against this dump that the protective system seeks to accomplish.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 9/2 The present ‘dump’, which has assumed such amazing proportions in the eyes of the alarmists.
c. A collection of provisions, ammunition, equipment, etc., deposited in a convenient place for later use; also, the place where such supplies are deposited.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store
store1487
store1520
reserving1530
staple1549
forestore1556
conserve1586
budget1597
magazine1615
stock1638
stowaway1913
dump1915
bank1918
stockpile1942
1915 Daily Mail 30 Dec. 4/6 The Dump! Just a pile of old clothes, battered helmets, decrepit boots, kit bags, shirts, socks, boots—all the little personal properties of soldiers.
1916 J. Buchan Battle of Somme 55 That same day we..took a ‘dump’ of German stores.
1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 61 One night about six o'clock I received orders to report at an engineers' dump known as Hyde Park Corner.
1919 R. H. Reece Night Bombing with Bedouins 6 The gunners may be called upon to fire at certain targets, such as cross-roads or houses used as infantry headquarters or ammunition and stores dumps.
1925 T. H. Somervell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 353 A dump for stores..would seem to be essential half-way between Camps II and III.
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 361 To provide dumps of reserve cylinders on the mountain.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xxxii. 157 The collection of the necessary food-dumps for the army.
1937 Notes & Queries CLXXIII. 19/2 Should the Air Ministry succeed in establishing their ammunition ‘dump’ at Acorn Bank [etc.].
1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xi. 168 She knew there was an arms-dump beneath Major Keston's house.
d. An act of defecation.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]
purgationa1387
shitting1386
officec1395
outpassinga1398
subduction?a1425
easementa1438
cuckingc1440
siegea1475
evacuation?1533
stool1541
egestion1547
dunging1558
purging1579
stooling1599
cackc1600
motion1602
dejection1605
excretion1640
exclusion1646
purgament1650
exoneration1651
disenteration1654
orduring1654
crapping1673
passage1681
seat1697
opening1797
defecation1825
excreting1849
poopc1890
movement1891
job1899
shit?1927
crap1937
dump1942
soiling1943
gick1959
jobbie1981
pooh1981
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §124/1 Defecation,..call of nature, crap, dump.
1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 26 To start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days.
e. Computing. The process or result of dumping data (see dump v.1 5); a printout of stored data; spec. a complete listing of the contents of a computer's memory, obtained when a program cannot be fully executed and used to help locate program errors. Frequently attributive.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > printer > printout
printout1953
hard copy1954
dump1956
society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > data flow > printout form
dump1956
1956 Computers & Automation Jan. 15/2 Dump check, a check which usually consists of adding all the digits during dumping, and verifying the sum when retransferring.
1959 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 6 129 The most generally used debugging technique is the post-mortem (static) dump.
1965 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 27 220/2 A weekly dump is prepared of all files which have been used within the last M weeks.
1972 Computer Jrnl. 15 192/1 The incremental dump tapes can..be re-used as soon as the next complete dump has taken place.
1978 J. McNeil Consultant xxi. 188 I bet you've never had to interpret a dump of a totally unfamiliar program!
1981 80 Microcomputing Nov. 276/3 When a large system can't figure out what the heck your program is trying to do, it spits it out as a dump.
1983 Your Computer (Austral.) Nov. 20/1 You can keep dumps of source listings on paper while your compiled versions are kept on electronic media.
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a. (Originally U.S.) A place where refuse material, esp. from a mine or quarry, or that collected from domestic refuse bins, is deposited.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > place for disposing of refuse
Tophet1382
shooting-ground1835
shoot1851
dumping-ground1857
dump1872
toom1882
dust-shoot1883
coup1886
nuisance ground1889
tip1890
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 68 Natural advantages for the construction of dumps and undercurrents.
1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 327/1 To use [the cañon] as a ‘dump’ or depository for the ‘tailings’ or débris of his sluices.
1891 Boston (Mass.) Youth's Compan. 9 July 13/1 Thrown by housekeepers into the domestic ash-barrel, and from there..taken to the town or city ‘dump’.
b. A place, building, house, etc.: usually as a pejorative or contemptuous term. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun]
bottleeOE
houseeOE
boldOE
building1297
builda1387
edificec1386
mansion1389
bigginga1400
housinga1400
edification1432
edifying1432
fabric1483
edify1555
structure1560
erection1609
framec1639
bastiment1679
drum1846
dump1899
gaff1932
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps 393 Dump, a lodging-house or restaurant; synonymous with ‘hang-out’.
1903 Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/1 Dump, a house; saloon, hang-out for a gang.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 30 Dump, a rendezvous; an establishment of any kind; a hangout; a joint; a meeting place.
1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 321 You never got in your life to live in a worse dump.
1929 P. Johnson Four Plays 26 We'll see what's doin' in this bloody dump.
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water i. 27 Do you think if I had any money I'd be living in a dump like the Château Blissac?
1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxviii. 192 Commercial travellers..were hurrying through these little ‘dumps’ of towns.
1942 Daily Express 8 Jan. 2/7 A uniformed cop patrolled the bar... I didn't think that mattered much at a dump like this.
1959 J. Burke Echo of Barbara ii. 13 We'll go and have an evening in the town here. Not much of a dump, but you'll find quite a good crowd there.
3.
a. A dull abrupt blow, a thud; a bump, as of a heavy body falling.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
daud1596
sosh1687
soss1718
devel1787
dump1820
thud1825
duff1859
pob1871
thrump1871
clump1891
plonk1903
plodding1905
plup1911
wumph1913
whump1915
whomp1926
whumping1928
clonking1930
bonk1933
bonking1944
thuck1948
doof1989
1820 L. Hunt in Indicator 15 Nov. 46 As in a leathern butt of wine..Stuck that arrow with a dump.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Dump, a stroke [with the feet].
1894 B. M. Croker Mr. Jervis I. 211 Mrs. Brande..was now let down with a dump.
b. Surfing. = dumper n. d.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer > fall
dump1935
wipeout1962
1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Jan. 11/3 It gave the Duke of Gloucester his first experience of a dump, in the Mooloolaba surf.
1963 Observer 13 Oct. 15/3 A rider..must be able to..escape the ‘dump’ by flicking back off the top of the wave or sliding across to some section where the water is too deep for the wave to break.
1967 J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. 153 Dump, a wipe-out in surfing.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (= sense 1a above).
a.
dump-heap n.
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1881 A. A. Hayes New Colorado vii. 106 The hills having been quite stripped of trees and covered with gray ‘dump-heaps’.
dump-ore n.
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 308 Those months in which custom-ore and dump-ore were run.
dump-pile n.
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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 405 The ore is brought from the mine to a dump-pile.
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xxvi. 286 On the outskirts of the town are great dump-piles.
b. Esp. used attributively (chiefly U.S.) to designate vehicles having a body that tilts or opens at the back for unloading materials.
dump-boat n.
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1873 City Record (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 219/4 To the Department of Docks: On manure dump boat of Vesey Street.
dump car n.
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1912 Out West Feb. 133/1 The small dump cars were wont to carry the yellow gravel from the cut.
dump cart n.
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1868 7th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 347 Joram Priest, Detroit, [manufactured the] 2 dump carts.
1890 Harper's Mag. Sept. 557/1 Presently Adoniram clattered out of the yard in his two-wheeled dump cart.
1903 Daily Chron. 2 Mar. 6/1 There is not a mile of public road fit to run a dump-cart over.
1924 F. J. Haskin Amer. Govt. (rev. ed.) 425 The trains of dump cars used in carrying away this vast amount of earth.
dump truck n.
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1930 Water Works & Sewerage Dec. 24/3 Where to buy..Trucks, Dump.
1936 J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle xv. 295 Up the road from Torgas a huge Mack dump-truck rolled.
1959 New Scientist 29 Oct. 801/1 Dump trucks..shifted, on an average, over 500 yards an hour.
dump wagon n.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 357 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Wheel~barrows, carts, or dump-wagons will be necessary.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Nov. 2/1 There were no trucks as today, 120 mules and 50 to 60 dumpwagons on the move from dawn till dark did the trick.
C2.
dump condenser n. (see quot. 1960).
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1958 Nuclear Power III. 170 Instrumentation system of a typical gas-cooled reactor..dump condenser.
1960 Gloss. Atomic Terms (H.M.S.O.) 20 Dump condenser, a water-cooled steam condenser which allows the heat output of a power reactor to be ‘dumped’ into the cooling water system should the turbine system become inoperative.
dump-hook n. (see quot. 1905).
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dump hook, a levered chain grab hook attached to the evener to which a team is hitched in loading logs. A movement of the lever releases the hook from the logging chain without stopping the team.
dump tank n. a tank used for receiving a sudden discharge of liquid from a reactor or for storing radioactive liquids while they are dangerous.
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1959 Nuclear Energy Engineer XIII. 337 Reactor for Chalk River... Dump tanks.
1964 C. F. Bonilla in Reactor Handbk. (ed. 2) IV. iii. 122/1 Dump tanks in any of the coolant systems may receive hot discharge from the system at any time.
dump valve n. a valve which releases the contents of a container quickly.
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1930 Flight 4 July 760/1 It is intended to let air into this reservoir quickly when the safety dump valve is used.
1955 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 14 16 To give a clean shut-down a dump valve was fitted to the cooling jacket which drained overboard any fuel remaining in it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dumpadj.
rare.† 1. In a ‘dump’, amazed, perplexed; to strike dump, to strike with amazement. (But perhaps an error for to strike dumb.) Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adjective]
forglopnedc1175
dumb1388
astoniedc1400
unprepared1563
thunderstrickena1586
stonished1595
startled?1611
thunderstruck1613
dump1616
admired1684
dumbfounded1815
capped1862
surprised1882
dumbfoundered1883
staggered1911
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective]
awonder1154
wonderfulc1380
astoniedc1400
marvelling?a1425
amazed1548
admirative1582
thunderstrickena1586
wondering1592
stonished1595
thunderstruck1613
dump1616
rapt1621
admired1684
astonished1716
breathless1768
unbreathing1789
agazed1803
astounded1810
obfuscated1822
struck with thunder1823
surprised1882
zapped1962
mind-blown1967
gob-struck1985
1616 S. Ward Coal from Altar (1627) 31 How can hee chose but be strucke dumpe?
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 53 He was strooken so dumpe, and so full of wonder, to see what I had show'd him, that hee had not a word to say.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 79 Whil'st they were thus strucken into their dumps and doubts.]
2. Of the consistence of dough or dumpling; without elasticity or spring.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > inelastic
unspringy1673
non-elastic1728
unelastic1728
inelastic1749
dump1852
irresilient1855
dead1870
wooden1897
unsprung1928
1852 Meanderings of Mem. An heiress doughy-like and dump.
1866 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics 83 The more we knead, the denser will it grow, Adhesive like to pitch and dump as dough.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
dumpv.1
/dʌmp/, U.S. /dəmp/ a. intransitive. To fall with sudden force; to plunge.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > with force or violence
dump1333
swapc1386
to shove downc1400
squat1587
to go down1697
spank1800
thwacka1851
to beat down1860
1333–52 L. Minot Poems (1887) x. 24 Kene men sall þe kepe, And do þe dye on a day, and domp in þe depe.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 362 Vp-so-doun schal ȝe dumpe depe to þe abyme.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10713 But I degh of þi dynt, and dump into helle.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13289 The folke in the flete felly þai drownen:—Þai dump in the depe and to dethe passe.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > throw down > heavily or forcibly
dumpa1300
to slay up or downa1400
squata1400
flash1548
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22643 And driue þam dun all vntil hell, And dump [Gött. bete] þe deuels þider in.
II. in modern use.
2.
a. transitive (originally U.S.) To throw down in a lump or mass, as in tilting anything out of a cart; to shoot or deposit (rubbish, etc.); to fling down or drop (anything) with a bump; to make a dump of (dump n.4 1c). Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (transitive)] > deposit rubbish
dump1784
fly-tip1985
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > throw down in a mass
dump1784
1784 J. Hiltzheimer Diary 16 Mar. (1893) 62 The Street Commissioners selected sites to dump the dirt from the streets.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dump, v.t., to throw or drop, as a load from a cart.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 387 Loading them [carts] with dirt, and dumping them upon the road.
1870 R. W. Emerson Civilization in Wks. (1906) III. 13 I see..California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York.
1879 H. C. McCook Nat. Hist. Agric. Ant Texas 139 Presently the carcasses..were carried up and dumped into the water.
1880 Earl of Dunraven in 19th Cent. Oct. 593 The houses..are..dumped down anywhere.
1882 Standard 9 Dec. 3/6 The tip system..by which manure..can be dumped..with no further labour than working a crank handle to give the..cart body the necessary inclination.
1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 128 A baggage porter ‘dumps’ trunks and portmanteaus down on the pavement as though he were delighted with the noise they made in falling.
1887 Westm. Rev. 128 349 Hundreds of thousands of the poorest and least educated peasantry in..Europe were all at once dumped upon the American seaboard.
1889 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 189 To dump four hundred and fifty millions a year down on the Exchequer counter.
1919 A. P. Herbert Secret Battle viii. 165 Philpott..accused him hotly of dumping the rations carelessly anywhere.
1919 G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks Light Infantry 35 A pile of logs dumped in the wrong place.
1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 52 To prepare the camp and dump tents and stores for it.
1961 Bible (New Eng.) Acts xxvii. 38 They lightened the ship by dumping the corn in the sea.
b. intransitive for reflexive. To deposit oneself, drop down.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down > heavily or unceremoniously
soss1790
(to sit) flat down1852
dump1891
plonk1932
plotz1941
1891 Daily News 10 Jan. 3/3 Down we dump in the dead rushes, buckle on our own skates, and are presently flying away with the rest of them.
c. transitive. To export, or throw on the market, in large quantities and at low prices; spec. to offer for sale (surplus goods), esp. abroad, at less than the ordinary trade prices. Also absol. Often in participial adjectives and verbal noun.
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society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > import or export [verb (transitive)] > export > types of export practices
brack1858
dump1868
Klondike1923
1868 Commerc. & Financial Chron. VI. 326/1 New stock secretly issued [was] ‘dumped’ on the market for what it would fetch.
1884 Congress. Rec. 1 May 3663/1 The surplus dumped from foreign pauper markets is the great bane of our industries.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/2 Those who base their case on (a) decreasing exports, and (b) the dumped state of iron and steel.
1903 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/7 ‘Dumping’ is in our eyes a great sin.
1904 Treasury Oct. 8/1 The..capitalists desire this, as it..enables them to dump their surplus production on foreign countries.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 10/2 As for the dumping scare,..there is nothing in it.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 2/2 You appear to think that he dumps for the sake of dumping.
1916 Economist 4 Mar. 458/1 We hear of large stocks of cheap manufactures that will be dumped upon us.
1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) i. v. 50 They showed that the practice of dumping demoralises the world-market to the ultimate disadvantage of all concerned.
1957 Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 18 (title) Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act.
1957 Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 18 For the purposes of this Act imported goods shall be regarded as having been dumped..if the export price from the country in which the goods originated is less than the fair market price of the goods in that country.
1970 Financial Times 13 Apr. 12/6 Continental companies could ‘dump’ steel in the U.K. if there are no tariff barriers.
d. To discard, abandon, get rid of. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]
to let awaya1000
forcast?c1225
to lay downc1275
forthrow1340
flita1375
removea1382
to cast away1382
understrewc1384
castc1390
to lay awaya1400
to lay asidec1440
slingc1440
warpiss1444
to lay from, offc1480
way-put1496
depose1526
to lay apart1526
to put off1526
to set apart1530
to turn up1541
abandonate?1561
devest1566
dispatch1569
decarta1572
discard1578
to make away1580
to fling away1587
to cast off1597
doff1599
cashier1603
to set by1603
moult1604
excuss1607
retorta1616
divest1639
deposit1646
disentail1667
dismiss1675
slough1845
shed1856
jettison1869
shake1872
offload1900
junk1911
dump1919
sluff1934
bin1940
to put down1944
shitcan1973
1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 ‘To dump’ a thing that it is a nuisance to carry means to get rid of it.
1919 A. P. Herbert Secret Battle viii. 154 We call them the Old Duds, and we believed that..they were dumped upon us by way of penalty.
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 137 I dumped the oxygen apparatus and immediately went off along the probable route Mallory and Irvine had taken.
1944 Korero (N.Z.) (AEWS Background Bull.) 9 Oct. 27 The pony will try..to ‘dump’ its burden [the rider].
1946 D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 29 You've dumped plenty of fellows before.
1946 D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 30 Dumping me like this for a couple of dumb sailors.
e. Of a wave: to hurl (a swimmer or surfer) down. Cf. dumper n. d. Chiefly Australian.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf [verb (transitive)] > tip surfer off wave
dump1938
rubbish1962
1938 J. Moses Nine Miles from Gundagai 88 W'en de breakers dumped Me at Curl Curl.
1963 Observer 13 Oct. 15/4 The wave traps and dumps the rider, burying him for half a minute or longer and churning him over and over on the ocean floor.
1966 Surfer 7 54 A really good body surfer got banged up pretty bad when a Yokohama wave dumped him right on the reef.
f. intransitive. Chiefly North American. In slang phrase to dump on (occasionally all over) (a person), to criticize or abuse (someone); to better in argument; so to be dumped on, to be defeated in argument or in a game.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > be defeated or lose
to have (also get) the worsec1275
leesec1300
lose1548
to deserve or lose the bell1600
to have the lower hand1693
to have the second best1708
to come off second best1777
skunk1867
to be dumped on1967
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)]
vilea1300
rebutc1330
revilea1393
arunt1399
stainc1450
brawl1474
vituper1484
rebalk1501
to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542
rattle1542
vituperate1542
bedaub1570
beray1576
bespurt1579
wring1581
misuse1583
caperclaw1589
abuse1592
rail1592
exagitate1593
to shoot atc1595
belabour1596
to scour one's mouth on1598
bespurtle1604
conviciate1604
scandala1616
delitigate1623
betongue1639
bespatter1644
rant1647
palt1648
opprobriatea1657
pelt1658
proscind1659
inveigh1670
clapperclaw1692
blackguard1767
philippize1804
drub1811
foul-mouth1822
bullyrag1823
target1837
barge1841
to light on ——1842
slang1844
villainize1857
slangwhang1880
slam-bang1888
vituperize1894
bad-mouth1941
slag1958
zing1962
to dump on (occasionally all over)1967
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > by argument
outwrangle1589
out-argue1662
to dump on (occasionally all over)1967
1963 Amer. Speech 38 171 [Kansas University] Many of the responses referring to one party's rejection of another, as, for example, a girl breaking a previously arranged date with a boy, are figurative expressions of excremental activities. A boy so treated is said to have been dumped on.]
1967 Amer. Speech 42 228 Dump on, to have one's arguments continually defeated by a particular opponent. ‘He is dumping on you’ (i.e. ‘He bettered your arguments’). ‘You've been dumped on’ (i.e., ‘You've had your arguments beaten’). The phrase evidently derives from dump shit on or dump a load of shit on.
1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 42 Dump on, to criticize.—College students, both sexes. New Hampshire.
1975 Sat. Night (Toronto) July–Aug. 20/1 Last year, after a frustrating and unsuccessful try at settling a dispute between Air Canada and its pilots, Hartt dumped on both sides.
1977 New Yorker 28 Feb. 27/1 When Ron's first ball flopped, Kerry was candid. ‘Well, you got dumped on with a mere one hundred and fifty-one’.
1985 Woman's Own 22 June 36/3 One minute I'm with a woman who makes me feel like a man, the next I'm with someone who's dumping all over me.
3.
a. transitive. To thump, beat, strike. Scottish.
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1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Dump, to strike with the feet.
1839 J. Ballantine in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 74 He thumpit the blacksmith hame to his wife, He dumpit the butcher, who ran for his life.
b. intransitive. To strike with a dull abrupt thud.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > with dull sound
thud1796
dump1832
1832 L. Hunt Boileau's Battle of Bks. 115 The book, like butter dumps against his head.
4. transitive. To compress (wool-bales), as by hydraulic pressure. Australia.
ΚΠ
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 68.
1896 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (at cited word) Bales are often marked ‘Not to be dumped’.
5. Computing. To copy (stored data) to a different location, usually to an external storage medium from an internal one, e.g. to check a program or safeguard data; to reproduce the contents of (a store) externally.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in specific place
house1439
garner1474
loft1518
cellar1550
pantry1637
warehouse1799
yard1878
dump1956
society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > store > copy or transfer
read1940
to read out1946
copy1953
dump1956
list1958
recall1966
to roll out1969
import1977
upload1977
export1982
1956 Computers & Automation Jan. 15/2 Dump, to transfer all or part of the contents of one section of computer memory into another section.
1959 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 6 132 There are three ‘information macros’ which enable the programmer to specify the area of core, drum, or tape storage to be dumped.
1964 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Developm. 8 97/1 When a byte of data appears from an I/O device, the CPU is seized, dumped, used and restored.
1969 G. B. Davis Computer Data Processing x. 229 Rerun the program until it hangs up and then obtain information on contents of registers,..etc... The entire memory may, in certain instances, be listed, or dumped.
1972 Computer Jrnl. 15 191/2 A simple application of this principle in the case of a disc-base filing system is to dump the entire disc on to magnetic tape at suitable intervals.
1978 Nature 10 Aug. 567/2 Optical burst 1 occurred while SAS 3 was dumping data to a ground station and so no X-ray data are available.
1982 80 Microcomputing Nov. 464/2 Economically, it's very easy to dump an entire newspaper into a data base.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 109/2 This device is suited ideally to word processors—for example, a document can be dumped to the printer via the spooler in seconds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† dumpv.2
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. (a) To fall into, or be in, an abstracted or absent state of mind; to muse. (b) To be in the dumps; to be sad or downcast in spirit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > indulge in daydreams [verb (intransitive)]
dream?c1400
saunterc1475
dump1530
to go (run, be) wool-gathering1553
to gather wool1577
reverie1832
reverize1836
Alnascharize1840
daydream1899
mice1984
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 531 I dumpe, I fall in a dumpe or musyng upon thynges, je me amuse..He dumpeth nowe a days more than he was wont to do.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 With choloricque fretting I dumpt, and ranckled in anguish.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 50 I thought either Diana sate musing on the principles of her modestie, or Venus malecontent, dumping on her amours.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciii He knowes the Countie (like to Cassius) Sits sadly dumping, ayming Cæsars death.
2. transitive. To cast into melancholy, sadden, grieve, cast down. (Sometimes blending with dump v.1)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)]
heavyOE
fallOE
droopena1225
lourc1290
droopc1330
to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350
dullc1374
fainta1375
languora1375
languisha1382
afflicta1393
gloppen?a1400
weary1434
appalc1450
to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450
peak1580
dumpc1585
mopea1592
sink1603
bate1607
deject1644
despond1655
alamort?1705
sadden1718
dismal1780
munge1790
mug1828
to get one's tail down1853
to have (also get) the pip1881
shadow1888
to have (one's) ass in a sling1960
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)]
drearya1300
discomfortc1325
batec1380
to cast downa1382
to throw downa1382
dullc1386
faintc1386
discomfita1425
discourage1436
sinkc1440
mischeera1450
discheerc1454
amatea1500
bedowa1522
damp1548
quail1548
dash1550
exanimate1552
afflict1561
dank1565
disanimate1565
sadden1565
languish1566
deject1581
dumpc1585
unheart1593
mope1596
chill1597
sour1600
disgallant1601
disheart1603
dishearten1606
fainten1620
depress1624
sullen1628
tristitiate1628
disliven1631
dampen1633
weigh1640
out-spirit1643
dispirit1647
flat1649
funeralize1654
hearta1658
disencourage1659
attrist1680
flatten1683
dismalizec1735
blue-devil1812
out-heart1845
downweigh1851
to get down1861
frigidize1868
languor1891
downcast1914
neg1987
c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 87 The greater nomber of them being dumped with dumbe ministerie.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 The gods..were so dumpt with this miserable wracke [of Hero and Leander], that they beganne to abhorre al moysture.
1614 P. Forbes Def. Lawful Calling 66 (Jam.) Which..hath dumped in a deep sorrow all true hearts of both the ilands.
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