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
- An act of defecation (i.e., "to take a dump")
- Illegal dumping
- Ocean dumping, the disposal of waste at sea
Arts, entertainment, and media
- 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
- Dumped, a British reality television programme
- The Dump, a blog by Maurice Benayoun
Computing and technology
- Dump (program), 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 record of the data in a ROM, EEPROM, or MCU
Other uses
- A coin that, together with the Holey dollar, was used in Australia and Prince Edward Island
- To break up with someone
- Dump, Belize, a community in Toledo District, Belize
- Ammunition dump, military stores of ammunition
- Deoxyuridine monophosphate, or dUMP
- Dump cake, a dessert similar to a cobbler (food)
- Dumping (pricing policy)
See also
- Litter, waste disposed of improperly
- Dumper (disambiguation)
- Dumping (disambiguation)
- The Dump (disambiguation)