Dump

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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 of a corpse

• Dump (band), an alias for the solo recordings of James McNew
• Dump, tape delay (broadcasting)
• Dump months, times when, due to limited box office potential, new movies are generally perceived as being of low quality and limited appeal

• Dump (Unix), a Unix program for backing up file systems
• Core 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 record of the data in a ROM, EEPROM, or MCU

• Dump, Belize, a village 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), used with the Holey dollar in Australia and Prince Edward Island
• Ammunition dump, military stores of ammunition
• Deoxyuridine monophosphate, or dUMP
• Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind; Mitchell characterized her apartment building as "the Dump"
• Dump truck, with tippable bed
• Dump cake, a dessert
• Dump valve, used to release pressure, e.g. in turbochargers or diving suits
• Dump, slang for unilateral break up of a personal relationship
• Take a dump, slang for a bowel movement

• Litter, waste disposed of improperly
• Double dump valve, in material handling
• Dumper (disambiguation)
• Dumping (disambiguation)
• Dumped, a British reality television programme

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