Dump vs Depot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between dump and depot

is that dump is a place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for ashes, refuse, etc or dump can be (uk|archaic) a thick, ill-shapen piece while depot is (lb) dump, tip.

As a verb dump

is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

dump

English

Etymology 1

Akin to Old Norse )

Noun

(en noun)

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for ashes, refuse, etc.

A toxic waste dump .

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.

The new XML dump is coming soon.

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

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

This place looks like a dump .

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

An act of defecation; a defecating.

I have to take a dump .

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural ).

March slowly on in solemn dump . -- .

Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --

I was musing in the midst of my dumps . --.

Absence of mind; revery.

(John Locke)

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

Tune a deploring dump .

Play me some merry dump . --

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.

(Nares)

(historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

* 2002 , Paul Swan, Maths Investigations , 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 * minidump

Verb

(en verb)

To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.

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(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.

(Halliwell)

(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.

(Bartlett)

(US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* dumping car, dump car * dumping cart, dump cart * dump on * dump and burn

Etymology 2

See dumpling.

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.

(UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

(Smart)

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depot

English

Noun

(en noun)

A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

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, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot , a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

(US) A bus or railway station.

A place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.

(card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Anagrams

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