dump vs remove

dump

noun
  • An act of dumping, or its result. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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

remove

noun
  • The act of removing something. 

  • Distance in time or space; interval. 

  • A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove") 

  • (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last 

  • Emotional distance or indifference. 

  • The act of resetting a horse's shoe. 

  • A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course. 

verb
  • To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.). 

  • To murder. 

  • To dismiss or discharge from office. 

  • To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away. 

  • To dismiss a batsman. 

  • To delete. 

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