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  • 111dump — ● ►en n. m. ►FLUXDON Copie de tout ou partie du contenu d une mémoire vers un autre support. Verbe associé: dumper. Désormais, c est plutôt rare, d une part parce que plus personne ne comprend ce qu une machine a en mémoire, et d autre part parce …

    Dictionnaire d'informatique francophone

  • 112Dump — 1. place, house, or town that is poorly kept up, and generally of wretched appearance; 2. act of defecation: taking a dump ; 3. end a relationship with (someone); drop; 4. defecate; 5. (history) round piece cut from the centre of a silver dollar …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 113Dump — [1] 1:1 Ausgabe eines Speicherinhalts (Festplatte, RAM, Programmcode) [2] dump UNIX Verwaltungsprogramm zur Dateisystemsicherung http://www.desy.de/cgi bin/man cgidump …

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  • 114dump on (someone) — vb to criticise or chastise, heap blame or responsibility on, denigrate. This expres sion is now often used as an innocuous colloquialism, although it derives from the decidedly vulgar sense of dump 2 above …

    Contemporary slang

  • 115dump — • to defecate. eg. I need to take a dump …

    Londonisms dictionary

  • 116dump — i. A storage area for weapons, as in a bomb dump. ii. To jettison a part of an aircraft’s fuel for either operational or safety considerations …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 117dump on — unload the dirty jobs, give what is left over    They dump on Karen too much. They give her the large classes …

    English idioms

  • 118dump —    to defecate    An obvious and rather distasteful male usage as a verb or a noun:     Everything hinged on that first dump of the day. (Theroux, 1971)    And some figurative use:     But maybe you also recall how your Service dumped all over us …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 119dump on — N. Amer. informal treat badly or criticize harshly. → dump …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 120dump — v 1. drop, fling down, let fall, deposit; throw away, dispose, discharge, cast off. 2. empty out, pour out, unload, rid, unburden, disburden, Naut. break bulk. 3. fire, dismiss, expel, oust, Inf. give [s.o.] his walking papers; All Sl. sack, can …

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