Dump vs. Junk — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dump and Junk
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Dump
To release or throw down in a large mass.
Junk
Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
Dump
To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle
Dumped the load of stones.
Junk
Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded
Broken furniture and other junk in the attic.
Dump
To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.
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Junk
Cheap or shoddy material.
Dump
To get rid of; discard
A fine for dumping trash on public land.
Dumped the extra gear overboard.
Junk
Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable
Nothing but junk in the annual report.
Dump
(Informal) To discard or reject unceremoniously
Dump an old friend.
Junk
The genitals.
Dump
To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.
Junk
The buttocks.
Dump
(Computers) To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.
Junk
(Slang) Heroin.
Dump
(Slang) To knock down; beat.
Junk
Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
Dump
To fall or drop abruptly.
Junk
A traditional Chinese sailing vessel having a high poop and usually two or more masts bearing battened lugsails.
Dump
To discharge cargo or contents; unload.
Junk
To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
Dump
(Slang) To criticize another severely
Was always dumping on me.
Junk
Cheap, shoddy, or worthless
Junk jewelry.
Dump
A place where refuse is dumped
A garbage dump.
A nuclear waste dump.
Junk
Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance
"the junk issues that have dominated this year's election" (New Republic).
Dump
A storage place for goods or supplies; a depot
An ammunition dump.
Junk
Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default
Debt of junk status.
Dump
An unordered accumulation; a pile.
Junk
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
Dump
(Computers) An instance or the result of dumping stored data.
Junk
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
Dump
(Slang) A poorly maintained or disreputable place.
Junk
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
Dump
Vulgar Slang An act of defecating. Often used with take.
Junk
(slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
Dump
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
A toxic waste dump.
Junk
(nautical) salt beef.
Dump
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Junk
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
Dump
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
Junk
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
Dump
(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
The new XML dump is coming soon.
Junk
(attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
Junk fish
Junk trees
Dump
(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
Junk
; gibberish.
The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
Dump
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
Junk
(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
Dump
(slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
This place looks like a dump.
Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
Junk
To throw away.
Dump
An act of defecation; a defecating.
I have to take a dump.
Junk
To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."
Dump
A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
Junk
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
Dump
Absence of mind; reverie.
Junk
Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
Dump
(mining) A pile of ore or rock.
Junk
Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
Dump
(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
Junk
Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.
Dump
(obsolete) An old kind of dance.
Junk
Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
Dump
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
Junk
A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
Dump
(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
Junk
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Dump
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
Junk
Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
Dump
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
Junk
Dispose of (something useless or old);
Trash these old chairs
Junk an old car
Scrap your old computer
Dump
(Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
Dump
(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
Dump
(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
Dump
(transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
Dump
To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
To dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
Dump
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
Dump
To end a romantic relationship with.
Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
Dump
To knock heavily; to stump.
Dump
(transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
Dump
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
Dump
Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
Dump
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
Dump
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; - now used only in the plural.
March slowly on in solemn dump.
Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
Dump
Absence of mind; revery.
Dump
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
Dump
An old kind of dance.
Dump
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Dump
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
Dump
That which is dumped.
Dump
A pile of ore or rock.
Dump
A coarse term for defecation.
Dump
To knock heavily; to stump.
Dump
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.
Dump
A coarse term for defecation;
He took a shit
Dump
A piece of land where waste materials are dumped
Dump
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
Dump
Throw away as refuse;
No dumping in these woods!
Dump
Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly;
The company dumped him after many years of service
She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man
Dump
Sell at artificially low prices
Dump
Drop in a heap or mass
Dump
Fall abruptly;
It plunged to the bottom of the well
Dump
Knock down with force;
He decked his opponent
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