dump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
    — a toxic waste dump
  2. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. Northern-England
  3. A thick, ill-shapen piece. UK,archaic
  4. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  5. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing. UK,archaic
    — The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
  6. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  7. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.; A disorganized collection of images posted on social media. Internet
  8. An act of dumping, or its result.
    — The new XML dump is coming soon.
  9. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
  10. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
    — an ammo dump
  11. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place. slang
    — This place looks like a dump.
  12. An act of defecation; a defecating. euphemistic,often,slang
    — I have to take a dump.
  13. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency. plural-normally
    — […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
  14. Absence of mind; reverie.
    — They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.
  15. A pile of ore or rock.
  16. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. obsolete
    — Tune a deploring dump […]
  17. An old kind of dance. obsolete
  18. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar). Australia,Canada,historical
    — Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
  19. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
    — The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.
动词 v.
  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. transitive
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants. transitive
    — The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. transitive
  4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. transitive
    — to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug. transitive
  6. To end a romantic relationship with. informal,transitive
    — Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump. Scotland,obsolete,transitive
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it transitive
    — We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
  9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily. US,transitive
  10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards. Australia,transitive
    — Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]

词形变化

dumps plural dumps present,singular,third-person dumping participle,present dumped participle,past dumped past dumps plural dumps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
词源 2
See dumpling.
词源 3
Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).
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