Dump

(noun.) a place where supplies can be stored; 'an ammunition dump'.

(noun.) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.

(noun.) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped.

(verb.) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; 'The truck dumped the garbage in the street'.

(verb.) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; 'The company dumped him after many years of service'; 'She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man'.

(verb.) throw away as refuse; 'No dumping in these woods!'.

(verb.) sell at artificially low prices.

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• Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A chearful countenance infuses a sensible complacency and serenity into my mind; as an angry or sorrowful one throws a sudden dump upon me. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The hay can be gathered by any number of sweep rakes and dumped near the stacker, which will stack on any side and in any shape. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Five barges of clay had been dumped in the river over this point to make a roof for the tunnel, but the fluid clay could not be controlled, and crept through the doors of the shield. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Large mechanical mixers are used, and, as it is made, the mixture is dumped into tanks, from which it is conveyed to a distributing tank on the top, or roof, of the form. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Coal cars are dumped into hoppers under the tracks and the coal carried to the top of the piles by conveyors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• What is young Thomas in the dumps about? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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