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dump

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
'''dump''' is a Unix program used to back up file systems . It operates on blocks , below filesystem abstractions such as files and directories . Dump can back up a file system to a tape or another disk. It is often used across a network by piping its output ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"place where refuse is dumped," 1865, originally of mining operations, from dump (v.). Meaning "any shabby place" is from 1899. Meaning "act of defecating" is from 1942.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for #Verb ashes, refuse, etc. 2 A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 3 That which is #Verb, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. 4 (context computing English) An act of #Verb, ...

Usage examples of dump.

Lutea had found for her, they gained admittance to dump their burden, but then all of us were brusquely turned away.

Keebes took off his headset and dumped it on the Pos Two console, then quickly headed for the aft stairway.

Backing out through the curtain, Alec dumped the contents of the mortar into a parchment cone and hurried out past the crowd that had gathered in the street.

The ideal solution, of course, would be to float the dump on top of a pool of alkahest, which would dissolve any evil mat percolated through to it.

According to both Amnesty International and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups of prisoners suspected of anti-government sentiments were taken from detention camps, machine-gunned en masse, and then dumped into pre-dug pits that were covered with earth and left unmarked.

George standing by ready to fly his ass to Anchorage and dump it on the first plane south.

They emerged from the antechamber, bearing the shrouded body, only to dump it before Keir.

Yanking her into the dining cabin, the Argon dragged her over to the table, where he practically dumped her into one of the two chairs.

Ban Sar Din ran out into the ashram from his holy office in the back, dumped out a batch of yellow handkerchiefs, and ran back to his office.

The marksmanship of the Soviet artillery was perfect, and it aimed not at squares, as the Germans had done, but at definite targets, batteries, concentrations of tanks and infantry already drawn up on the line of attack, at bridges, underground ammunition dumps, blindages and command posts.

Staying on here like he did, still hoping his luck was going to go up or down while your local bogman was dumping contrary evidence all over the table.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram meparked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram me-parked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

Remo had forced Bugget to drag all the bodies from inside and dump them around the loading dock.

Its burbling stream, fresh from the Huatanay, might at least be cleaner than most European water supplies of the time, but he had arranged to have some chicha poured about them when they were dumped.