dump

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To release or throw down in a large mass.
2. v. To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle: dumped the load of stones.
3. v. To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.
4. v. To get rid of; discard: a fine for dumping trash on public land; dumped the extra gear overboard.
5. v. Informal To discard or reject unceremoniously: dump an old friend.
6. v. To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.
7. v. Computer Science To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.
8. v. Slang To knock down; beat.
9. v. To fall or drop abruptly.
10. v. To discharge cargo or contents; unload.
11. v. Slang To criticize another severely: was always dumping on me.
12. n. A place where refuse is dumped: a garbage dump; a nuclear waste dump.
13. n. A storage place for goods or supplies; a depot: an ammunition dump.
14. n. An unordered accumulation; a pile.
15. n. Computer Science An instance or the result of dumping stored data.
16. n. Slang A poorly maintained or disreputable place.
17. n. Vulgar Slang An act of defecating. Often used with take.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart: as, to be in the dumps.
2. n. Meditation; reverie.
3. n. plural Twilight.
4. n. A slow dance with a peculiar rhythm.
5. n. Music for such a dance.
6. n. Any tune.
7. To throw down violently; plunge; tumble.
8. To put or throw down, as a mass or load of anything; unload; especially, to throw down or cause to fall out by tilting up a cart: as, to dump a stickful of type (said by printers); to dump bricks, or a load of brick.
9. To plunge into.
10. To knock heavily.
11. To fall or plunge down suddenly.
12. To unload a cart by tilting it up; dispose of a refuse load by throwing it out at a certain place: as, you must not dump there.
13. In printing, to remove type from the stick and place it on the galley: as, where shall I dump?
14. n. The sound of a heavy object falling; a thud.
15. n. Anything short, thick, and heavy.
16. n. Hence A clumsy medal of lead formerly made by casting in moist sand; specifically, a leaden counter used by boys at chuckfarthing and similar games. The dumps still existing are generally impressed with characters, often letters, perhaps the initials of the maker.
17. n. A small coin of Australia.
18. n. plural Money; “chink.”
19. n. A place for the discharge of loads from carts, trucks, etc., by dumping; a place of deposit for offal, rubbish, or any coarse material.
20. n. The pile of matter so deposited; specifically, the pile of refuse rock around the mouth of a shaft or adit-level.
21. n. A nail. See the extract.
22. n. A deep hole filled with water.
23. To press closely; subject to severe pressure, as bales of wool. [Australia.]

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. engraving A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. n. Absence of mind; revery.
4. n. obsolete A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
5. n. obsolete An old kind of dance.
6. v. Prov. Eng. To knock heavily; to stump.
7. v. U.S. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
8. n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
9. n. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
10. n. That which is dumped.
11. n. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
12. n. a coarse term for defecation.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a place where supplies can be stored
2. v. fall abruptly
3. n. a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
4. v. sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
5. n. a coarse term for defecation
6. n. (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
7. v. throw away as refuse
8. v. knock down with force
9. v. sell at artificially low prices
10. v. drop (stuff) in a heap or mass