dump

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You can rest a little easier when you go to upgrade your printer this year knowing that some of the states 'computers, fax machines, and other e-peripherals destined for the dump are actually being harvested for their plastics, which are then crushed and turned into planters.

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  1. transitive verb To release or throw down in a large mass.
  2. transitive verb To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle: dumped the load of stones.
  3. transitive verb To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.
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  • The process was still referred to as a dump even though these days a memory was never transmitted over the public net, or over any sort of net. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
  • Prattle. Seek out the paper-dump, the bottle-dump, the mops and the pails. —  Final Curtain - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 14
  • It includes a "pay-as-you-throw" trash collection system and stringent recycling rules that cover both outlying localities and commercial garbage haulers that rely on Albany's dump, according to a draft solid waste management plan submitted last week to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
  • Commercial haulers also would have to follow recycling rules or face fines and lose access to the dump, according to the report. —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
  • If one wants to find the richest deposits of minerals and materials, a garbage dump is the richest supply of such things. it is only a matter of short time that it will be more expensive to mine things from the earth than it will be to mine garbage dumps and render the garbage into raw materials. —  BlogWonks
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disposal ·  chute ·  incinerator ·  depot ·  shipment ·  backup ·  storage ·  leak ·  warehouse ·  spill ·  cans ·  truck

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dump:   dumped ·  dumping ·  dumps
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  1. Middle English dumpen, dompen, to fall suddenly, drop, of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from dump, adjective, Scots dumph, dull, insipid; prob. from Danish dump, dull, low, hollow, = German dumpf, damp, musty, dull, especially of sound, low, heavy, indistinct, muffled (from Middle High German dimpfen, steam, reek); cf. Dutch dompig, damp, hazy, misty, = Low German dumpig, damp, musty, = Swedish dial, dumpin, melancholy (past participle of dimba, steam, reek), Swedish dumpig, damp: see below. Cf. Dutch dompen, quench, put out; from the same source as damp, q. v.
  2. from Middle English dumpen, rarely dompen, transitive cast down suddenly, intransitive fall down suddenly (not in Anglo-Saxon); = Norwegian dumpa, fall down suddenly, fall or leap into the water, = Swedish dial. dumpa, make a noise, dance clumsily, dumpa, fall down suddenly, = Icelandic dumpa (once), thump, = Danish dumpe, intransitive thump, plump, transitive dip, as a gun, = Dutch dompen, transitive, dip, as a gun, dompelen, transitive, plunge, dip, immerse, = Low German dumpeln, intransitive, drift about, be tossed by wind and waves; all from a strong verb representing by Swedish dimpa, preterit damp, past participle neuter dumpit, fall down, plump. Cf. thump.
  3. = Norwegian dump, a sudden fall or plunge, also the sound of something falling, also a gust of wind, a squall, = Danish dump, the sound of something falling; from the verb. Hence dumpy, dumpling.
  4. Cf. Norwegian dump, a pit, pool, also the bottom of a carriage or sleigh; Low German dumpfel, tümpfel, an eddy, a deep place in a lake or stream, orig. a place that “plunges” down; ult. from the verb represented by dump, v.
 

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