Dump vs Through - What's the difference?
dump | through |
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.
From one side of an opening to the other.
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, title= Entering, then later leaving.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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, title= Surrounded by (while moving).
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, title= By means of.
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, title= (lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
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Passing from one side of an object to the other.
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Finished; complete.
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Valueless; without a future.
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No longer interested.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
*1977 , Iggy Pop,
*:I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs
Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
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From one side to the other by way of the interior.
From one end to the other.
To the end.
Completely.
Out into the open.
As nouns the difference between dump and through
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 through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.As a verb dump
is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.As a preposition through is
from one side of an opening to the other.As an adjective through is
passing from one side of an object to the other.As an adverb through is
from one side to the other by way of the interior.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)
through
English
Alternative forms
* thorow (obsolete) * thruEtymology 1
From (etyl) *. See also thorough.Preposition
(English prepositions)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.}}
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Derived terms
(terms derived using the preposition "through") * clear through * feedthrough * get through * go through * look through * right through * through and through * through with * throughput * throughwayAdjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- The arrow went straight through .
- Others slept; he worked straight through .
- She read the letter through .
- He said he would see it through .
- Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through .
- The American army broke through at St. Lo.
