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Haunch vs Dump - What's the difference?

haunch | dump |

As nouns the difference between haunch and dump

is that haunch is (anatomy) the area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters while 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.

As a verb dump is

to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

haunch

English

Alternative forms

* * (architechture)

Noun

(es)
  • (anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
  • The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food.
  • (architecture) A squat vertical support structure.

    • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=1735, 1800s=18?? 1855 1894, 1900s=1916 1918}} * *: But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean. * 18?? — *: On the rough-hewn oaken table the venison haunch was shared. * 1855 — , III *: And the rabbit from his path-way
    Leaped aside, and at a distance
    Sat erect upon his haunches . * 1894 — *: Now these are the Laws of the Jungle,
    and many and mighty are they;
    But the head and the hoof of the Law
    and the haunch and the hump is -- Obey! * 1916 — *: While Heracles, - the thews and cordage of his thighs
    Straitened and strained beyond the utmost stretch
    From quivering heel to haunch like sweating hawsers. * c.1918 — *: The fog comes on little cat feet.
    It sits looking over harbor and city
    on silent haunches and then moves on.

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.
  • (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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