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[dʌmp], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a site for depositing rubbish
- an unpleasant or dreary place
(e.g: why are you living in a dump like this?)
- an act of copying stored data to a different location, performed typically as a protection against loss
- an act of defecation
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Origin
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Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danish dumpe and Norwegian dumpa ‘fall suddenly’ (the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump
[dʌmp], (Verb)
Definitions:
- deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way
(e.g: trucks dumped 1,900 tons of refuse here)
- copy (stored data) to a different location, especially so as to protect against loss
Phrases:
Origin
:
Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danish dumpe and Norwegian dumpa ‘fall suddenly’ (the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump
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