Dump vs Sump - What's the difference?
dump | sump |
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.
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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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, 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.
A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
The lowest part of a mine shaft into which water drains.
A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
(automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
(nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
(construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
* We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres.
* This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.
In transitive terms the difference between dump and sump
is that dump is to knock heavily; to stump while sump is of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.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)