discard vs dump

discard

verb
  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

dump

verb
  • To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants. 

  • To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. 

  • To precipitate (especially snow) heavily. 

  • To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it 

  • To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. 

  • To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug. 

  • Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards. 

  • To end a romantic relationship with. 

  • To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. 

noun
  • An act of defecation; a defecating. 

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

  • An act of dumping, or its result. 

  • That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. 

  • An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place. 

  • Absence of mind; reverie. 

  • A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 

  • A pile of ore or rock. 

  • A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold. 

  • A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. 

  • A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar). 

  • A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency. 

  • A storage place for supplies, especially military. 

  • A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program. 

How often have the words discard and dump occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )