Dump generally refers to a place for disposal of solid waste, a rubbish dump, or

landfill A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...

. The word has other uses alone or in combination, and may refer to: *

Midden A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofact ...

, historically a dump for domestic waste *

Dump job Disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being. Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, wh ...

, a term for criminal disposal of a corpse

Arts, entertainment, and media

Dump (band) Dump is a vehicle for releasing the four-track home recordings of Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew. His recordings occasionally feature guest performers such as Sue Garner and Fontaine Toups (of Versus). For live performances McNew has been jo ...

, an alias for the solo recordings of James McNew * Dump,

tape delay (broadcasting) In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays las ...

Dump months The dump months are what the film community has, before the era of streaming television, called the two periods of the year when there have been lowered commercial and critical expectations for most new theatrical releases from American filmmak ...

, times when, due to limited box office potential, new movies are generally perceived as being of low quality and limited appeal

Computing and technology

Dump (Unix) The dump command is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to back up file systems. It operates on blocks, below filesystem abstractions such as files and directories. Dump can back up a file system to a tape or another disk. I ...

, a Unix program for backing up file systems * Storage dump, inaccurately but consistently referred to as a core dump in Unix-like systems, the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed) * Database dump, a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database * ROM dump or

ROM image A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequen ...

, a record of the data in a ROM, EEPROM, or MCU

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Dump, Belize Dump is a community in Toledo District, Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatema ...

, a community in Toledo District, Belize * The Dump (saloon), a popular saloon and dive bar in New York city during the early to middle 19th century *

Dump (coin) Holey dollar is the name given to coins used in the early history of two British settlements: Prince Edward Island (now part of Canada) and New South Wales (now part of Australia). The middle was punched out of Spanish dollars, creating two pa ...

, used with the Holey dollar in Australia and Prince Edward Island *

Ammunition dump An ammunition dump, ammunition supply point (ASP), ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. The storage of live ammunition and explosives is inherently hazardous. Th ...

, military stores of ammunition * Deoxyuridine monophosphate, or dUMP *

Margaret Mitchell House and Museum The Margaret Mitchell House is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell in the early 20th century. It is located in Midtown, at 979 Crescent Avenue. Constructed by Cornelius J ...

, where Margaret Mitchell wrote ''Gone with the Wind''; Mitchell characterized her apartment building as "the Dump" *

Dump cake A dump cake is an American dessert similar to a cobbler but with a cake-like topping. It is so named because it is prepared by "dumping" ingredients (typically canned fruit or pie filling, followed by a boxed cake mix) into a cake pan without mixi ...

, a dessert *

Dump valve Dump generally refers to a place for disposal of solid waste, a rubbish dump, or landfill. The word has other uses alone or in combination, and may refer to: * Midden, historically a dump for domestic waste * Dump job, a term for criminal disposal ...

, used to release pressure, e.g. in turbochargers or diving suits * Dump, slang for unilateral

break up A relationship breakup, breakup, or break-up is the termination of a relationship. The act is commonly termed "dumping omeone in slang when it is initiated by one partner. The term is less likely to be applied to a married couple, where a bre ...

of a personal relationship * Take a dump, slang for a

bowel movement Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus. The act has a variety of names ranging fro ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and technology

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