Dump vs Quit - What's the difference?
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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.
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
*:that judge that quits each soul his hire
To repay (someone) for (something).
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*:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
(obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
*:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
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*:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
To carry through; to go through to the end.
*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
*:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
(label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
(label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
(label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
(label) To leave (a place).
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
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To close (an application).
(quit)
As verbs the difference between dump and quit
is that dump is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner while quit is .As a noun 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.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)
quit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiter, (etyl) quiter, from , ultimately from (etyl) quietus .Verb
Derived terms
* quitterQuotations
* (English Citations of "quit")Usage notes
* The past tense of quit'' is now ''quit'' for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow ''quitted'' as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by ''quit'' by about 16 to 1 in theBritish National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ''ie. She quitted her job.