dumpy

adj 1: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy

musculature; "some people seem born to be square and

chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman";

"dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears";

"a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red

smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: {chunky},

{low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}, {stumpy}]

2: short and fat [syn: {podgy}, {pudgy}, {tubby}]

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).

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(1994-12-01)