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) In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays las ...

Dump months The dump months are what the film community has, before the era of streaming television, called the two periods of the year when there have been lowered commercial and critical expectations for most new theatrical releases from American filmmake ...

, 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 * 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 ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequ ...

, a record of the data in a ROM, EEPROM, or MCU

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* Dump, Belize, a community 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 An ammunition dump, ammunition supply point (ASP), ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. The storage of live ammunition and explosives is inherently hazardous. Th ...

, military stores of ammunition * Deoxyuridine monophosphate, or dUMP *

Margaret Mitchell House and Museum The Margaret Mitchell House is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell in the early 20th century. It is located in Midtown, at 979 Crescent Avenue. Constructed by Cornelius J ...

, where Margaret Mitchell wrote ''Gone with the Wind''; Mitchell characterized her apartment building as "the Dump" * 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 Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus. The act has a variety of names ranging fro ...

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