The difference between Dump and Jettison

When used as nouns, dump means a place where waste or garbage is left, whereas jettison means collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

When used as verbs, dump means to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner, whereas jettison means to eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

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  1. Dump as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "A toxic waste dump."

  2. Dump as a noun:

    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

  3. Dump as a noun:

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

  4. Dump as a noun (computing):

    An act of dumping, or its result.

    Examples:

    "The new XML dump is coming soon."

  5. Dump as a noun (computing):

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

  6. Dump as a noun:

    A storage place for supplies, especially military.

  7. Dump as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "This place looks like a dump."

    "Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump."

  8. Dump as a noun (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take", euphemism):

    An act of defecation; a defecating.

    Examples:

    "I have to take a dump."

  9. Dump as a noun (usually in the plural):

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

  10. Dump as a noun:

    Absence of mind; revery.

  11. Dump as a noun (mining):

    A pile of ore or rock.

  12. Dump as a noun (obsolete):

    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

  13. Dump as a noun (obsolete):

    An old kind of dance.

  14. Dump as a noun (historical, Australia):

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

  15. Dump as a noun (obsolete):

    A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

  1. Dump as a verb (transitive):

    To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

  2. Dump as a verb (transitive):

    To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.

  3. Dump as a verb (transitive):

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

  4. Dump as a verb (transitive, computing):

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

  5. Dump as a verb (transitive, computing):

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

  6. Dump as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To end a relationship with.

  7. Dump as a verb (transitive):

    To knock heavily; to stump.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Halliwell"

  8. Dump as a verb (transitive, US):

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

    Examples:

    "We dumped the coal onto the fireplace."

    "rfquotek Bartlett"

  9. Dump as a verb (transitive, US):

    To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

  1. Dump as a noun (UK, archaic):

    A thick, ill-shapen piece.

  2. Dump as a noun (UK, archaic):

    A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Smart"

  1. Jettison as a noun (uncountable):

    Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

  2. Jettison as a noun (countable):

    The action of jettisoning items.

  1. Jettison as a verb:

    To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

    Examples:

    "The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill."

    "The jettisoning of fuel tanks''."

  2. Jettison as a verb:

    To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

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