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Dump vs Unload - What's the difference?

dump | unload |

In computing|lang=en terms the difference between dump and unload

is that dump is (computing) to copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it while unload is (computing) to remove (something previously loaded) from memory.

In lang=en terms the difference between dump and unload

is that dump is to knock heavily; to stump while unload is to draw the charge from.

As verbs the difference between dump and unload

is that dump is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner while unload is to remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc).

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 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
    See also
    * (obsolete Australian coin) holey dollar

    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)
    ----

    unload

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
    • to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
  • To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
    • to unload bales of hay from a truck
  • To deposit one's load or cargo.
  • * 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
    • Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
  • (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
  • * 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
    • ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
  • (computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
  • * 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
    • When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
  • To discharge or pour a liquid.
  • To get rid of or dispose of.
    • to unload unprofitable stocks
  • (slang) To go to the bathroom.
    • to unload feces
  • To deliver forcefully.
  • (slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
  • To draw the charge from.
    • to unload a gun

    Derived terms

    * unloader

    References

    * English ergative verbs