DUMP
/dʌmp/
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Definition
/dʌmp/
noun
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.“A toxic waste dump.”
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- An act of dumping, or its result.“The new XML dump is coming soon.”
- A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
verb
- To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
- To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
Source: Wiktionary
