Dump vs Abandon - What's the difference?
dump | abandon |
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for ashes, refuse, etc.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
That which is , especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
(computing) An act of , or its result.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
An act of defecation; a defecating.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural ).
Absence of mind; revery.
(mining) A pile of ore or rock.
(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
(obsolete) An old kind of dance.
(historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
* 2002 , Paul Swan, Maths Investigations ,
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
(informal) To end a relationship with.
To knock heavily; to stump.
(US) 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.
(US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
(UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
(UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
(obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
* Macaulay
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/politics-envy-keenest-rich
, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured.
To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
* (rfdate) I. Taylor:
(obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
* 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:
* Udall
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. .
* 1954 , , Messiah :
* 2007 , Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, :
(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
(obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
* 1330 , Arthour and Merlin :
----
In obsolete terms the difference between dump and abandon
is that dump is an old kind of dance while abandon is abandonment; relinquishment.In transitive terms the difference between dump and abandon
is that dump is to knock heavily; to stump while abandon is to surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.As an adverb abandon is
freely; entirely.dump
English
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse )Noun
(en noun)- A toxic waste dump .
- The new XML dump is coming soon.
- This place looks like a dump .
- Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump .
- I have to take a dump .
- March slowly on in solemn dump . -- .
- Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --
- I was musing in the midst of my dumps . --.
- (John Locke)
- Tune a deploring dump .
- Play me some merry dump . --
- (Nares)
page 66,
- Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump'’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the ' dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
Derived terms
* braindump * core dump * crashdump * minidumpSee also
* (obsolete Australian coin) holey dollarVerb
(en verb)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- (Halliwell)
- (Bartlett)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dumping car, dump car * dumping cart, dump cart * dump on * dump and burnEtymology 2
See dumpling.Noun
(en noun)- (Smart)
abandon
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) abandounen, from (etyl) abandoner, formed from . See also (l), (l). * Displaced (etyl) forleten .Verb
(en verb)- He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.
- Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
- Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
- Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
- that he might abandon them from him
Synonyms
(synonyms of "abandon") * abdicate * blin * cede * desert * forego * forlet * forsake * give up * leave * quit * relinquish * renounce * resign * retire * surrender * withdraw from * withsake * yieldDerived terms
(terms derived from "abandon") * aband * abandoned * abandonee * abandoner * abandonwareEtymology 2
* From (etyl), from (etyl) abandon, from abondonner.Noun
(en noun)- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon : 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
- They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
Synonyms
* (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraintAdverb
(en adverb)- His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun .
