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What does dump mean?

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Noun
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
  5. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
  6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
  8. (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
  9. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
  10. Absence of mind; revery.
  11. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
  12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
  14. (historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
Verb
  1. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  3. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  5. (computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. (transitive, informal) To end a relationship with.
  7. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. (transitive, US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
  9. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Noun
  1. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  2. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
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