DUMP

Dump

Dump is a vehicle for releasing the four-track home recordings of Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew. His recordings occasionally feature guest performers such as Sue Garner and Fontaine Toups . For live performances McNew has been joined at various times by Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, Todd Barry on drums, and David Ramirez on guitar.

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dump

Noun

  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
    A toxic waste dump.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. An act of dumping, or its result.
    The new XML dump is coming soon.
  5. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  6. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
    This place looks like a dump.
    Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
  7. An act of defecation; a defecating.
    I have to take a dump.
  8. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
    March slowly on in solemn dump. -- .
    Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --
    I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --.
  9. Absence of mind; revery.
  10. A pile of ore or rock.
  11. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    Tune a deploring dump.
    Play me some merry dump. --
  12. An old kind of dance.
  13. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

Noun (etymology 2)

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

Verb

  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  3. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  4. To end a relationship with.
  5. To knock heavily; to stump.
  6. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
  7. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.


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