dump

n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: {shit}]

2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: {garbage

dump}, {trash dump}, {rubbish dump}, {wasteyard}, {refuse

heap}]

v 1: as of refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"

2: get rid of unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company

dumped him after many years of service"

3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: {underprice}]

4: drop in a heap or mass

5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:

{plunge}]

6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck},

{coldcock}, {knock down}, {floor}]

dump

1. An undigested and voluminous mass of

information about a problem or the state of a system,

especially one routed to the slowest available output device

(compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of

{hexadecimal} or {octal} {runes} describing the byte-by-byte

state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In {elder days},

debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump (see

{grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and

interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the

term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour.

2. A {backup}. This usage is typical only at large

{time-sharing} installations.

{Unix manual page}: dump(1).

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-01)