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

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

Computing and technology

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

Other uses

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