meaning of dump

1. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. Absence of mind; revery.
4. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
5. An old kind of dance.
6. To knock heavily; to stump.
7. 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.
8. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
9. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
10. That which is dumped.
11. A pile of ore or rock.
12. dump system> 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device compare core dump, and most especially one consisting of hexadecimal or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump see grovel; increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large time-sharing installations. Unix manual page: dump1. [Jargon File]
13. computer science a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

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