Meaning

• 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

• A storage place for supplies, especially military.

• An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

  "Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump."

• (often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.

  "I have to take a dump."

• (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency

• Absence of mind; revery.

• A pile of ore or rock.

• A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

• An old kind of dance.

• A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

• A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Meaning

• 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.

• To end a relationship with.

• To knock heavily; to stump.

• To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

  "We dumped the coal onto the fireplace."

• To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.