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dump

1
1. a place or area where waste materials are dumped
2. Slang chiefly US an act of defecation

dump

2
Obsolete a mournful song; lament
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dump

[dəmp]
(computer science)
To copy the contents of all or part of a storage, usually from an internal storage device into an external storage device.
(electronics)
To withdraw all power from a system or component accidentally or intentionally.
(ordnance)
A temporary storage area, usually in the open, for bombs, ammunition, equipment, or supplies.
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dump

i. A storage area for weapons, as in a bomb dump.
ii. To jettison a part of an aircraft's fuel for either operational or safety considerations.
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dump

(operating 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: dump(1).
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dump

To print the contents of memory, disk or tape without any report formatting. See memory dump.
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Residents of the locality were facing difficulties due to heaps of garbage dupmed along the roadside,therefore work on soil covering of dumped waste is being carried out from last few days.
We are moving the garbage that had been dumped (at the site) to Mwakirunge," said Mr Chacha.
Resident Stevie Franks discovered the dumped waste and described it as the "worst fly tipping I've ever seen" and said Stoney Battery Road in Huddersfield is partially blocked by the rubbish.
The Water Sanitation Services Peshawar Company (WSSP) dumped the solid waste and garbage near Ring Road Peshawar which a residential area and near to Gul Bahar , Afridi Garhi and other adjacent area.
having established a positive dumping margin as well as material injury to the domestic industry caused by such dumped imports, the authority is of the view that imposition of duty is necessary to offset dumping and injury," DGAD has said in a notification.
The purposed project establishes the relationship between Dumped products and its affect on economic growth and trade.
First the garbage was dumped at a site in H-12 Sector, which had now been shifted to I-12 sector.
There are about 33 dumps throughout Akkar where trash is dumped at random," Hamad said.
Ask where the garbage could be dumped, the mayor said barangay officials will operate their own Barangay Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) where they will do the proper segregation of biodegradable from non-biodegradable and if possible do the segregation at source - from their respective houses and establishments.
The material injury has been caused to the domestic industry by the dumped imports of the subject goods originating in or exported from China PR, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and USA.
About 8,400 to 8,600 tonnes of Metro Manila's garbage are dumped daily on San Isidro village.
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