English Dictionary

dump

IPA（発音記号）

/dʌmp/

名詞

婉語 頻度副詞 俗語 コロケーション 通例複数形 廃用 オーストラリア英語 カナダ英語 歴史的

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. / A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

日本語の意味

廃棄物やごみを捨てるための場所（ごみ置き場、ゴミ処理場）、あるいは灰やその他の残留物の処分場所。 / ごみや残留物を捨てるために使用される車両や船舶。

After the storm, volunteers cleared trash from the old dump near the river.

嵐の後、ボランティアたちは川の近くにある古いゴミ捨て場からゴミを片付けた。

意味（1）

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

A toxic waste dump.

意味（2）

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

意味（3）

That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

意味（4）

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

The new XML dump is coming soon.

意味（5）

(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.

意味（6）

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

意味（7）

An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

This place looks like a dump.

意味（8）

(slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.

I have to take a dump.

意味（9）

(usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

[…] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]

意味（10）

Absence of mind; reverie.

They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.

意味（11）

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

意味（12）

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

Tune a deploring dump […]

意味（13）

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.

意味（14）

(historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.

意味（15）

(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.

dumps （ plural ）