different between junkyard vs dump

English

Etymology

From junk +? yard.

Noun

junkyard (plural junkyards)

1. A place where rubbish is placed.
2. A business that sells used metal or items.

Synonyms

• (a place where rubbish is placed): scrapheap
• dumpyard
• scrapyard

Derived terms

• junkyard dog

Translations

See also

• junk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)).

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

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

2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

5. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.

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

9. (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 5,^[2]

     […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]

   • 1679, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: J. Clarke, 1743, p. 26,^[3]

     […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]

   • 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 2, Canto I, p. 228,^[4]

     March slowly on in solemn dump […]

10. Absence of mind; revery.
    • 1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1825, Section 45, p. 125,^[5]

      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.

11. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    • c. 1594,, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene 2,^[6]

      Tune a deploring dump […]

    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene 5,^[7]

      O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.

13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
14. (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
    • 2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66,

      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.

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (obsolete Australian coin): holey dollar

References

Verb

dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)

1. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
3. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
4. (transitive, computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
5. (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
6. (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.

7. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

8. (transitive, US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

9. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
10. (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:junk

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: domper

Translations

Etymology 2

See dumpling.

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

1. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
2. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Smart to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

Noun

dump (plural dumps)

1. (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Related terms

• dimple
• dip

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dump

1. first-person singular present indicative of dumpen
2. imperative of dumpen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German dumpf

Adjective

dump (neuter singular dumpt, definite singular and plural dumpe)

1. (of a sound) dull (pain also), hollow, muffled

Etymology 2

Possibly related to dyp

Noun

dump f or m (definite singular dumpa or dumpen, indefinite plural dumper, definite plural dumpene)

1. a dip, hollow, depression, bump (hole in the road)

Derived terms

• fartsdump

Etymology 3

From the verb dumpe

Noun

dump n (definite singular dumpet, indefinite plural dump, definite plural dumpa or dumpene)

1. a thud (dull sound)

References

• “dump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dump_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “dump_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “dump_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German dumpf

Adjective

dump (neuter singular dumpt, definite singular and plural dumpe)

1. (of a sound) dull (pain also), hollow, muffled

Etymology 2

Possibly related to djup

Noun

dump m (definite singular dumpen, indefinite plural dumpar, definite plural dumpane)
dump f (definite singular dumpa, indefinite plural dumper, definite plural dumpene)

1. a dip, hollow, depression, bump (hole in the road)

Derived terms

• fartsdump

Etymology 3

From the verb dumpe

Noun

dump n (definite singular dumpet, indefinite plural dump, definite plural dumpa)

1. a thud (dull sound)

References

• “dump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.