The difference between Dump and Junk
When used as nouns, dump means a place where waste or garbage is left, whereas junk means discarded or waste material.
When used as verbs, dump means to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner, whereas junk means to throw away.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dump and Junk
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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."
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Dump as a noun:
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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Dump as a noun:
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
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Dump as a noun (computing):
An act of dumping, or its result.
Examples:
"The new XML dump is coming soon."
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Dump as a noun (computing):
A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
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Dump as a noun:
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
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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."
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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."
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Dump as a noun (usually in the plural):
A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency
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Dump as a noun:
Absence of mind; revery.
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Dump as a noun (mining):
A pile of ore or rock.
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Dump as a noun (obsolete):
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
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Dump as a noun (obsolete):
An old kind of dance.
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Dump as a noun (historical, Australia):
A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
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Dump as a noun (obsolete):
A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
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Dump as a verb (transitive):
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
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Dump as a verb (transitive):
To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
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Dump as a verb (transitive):
To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
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Dump as a verb (transitive, computing):
To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
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Dump as a verb (transitive, computing):
To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
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Dump as a verb (transitive, informal):
To end a relationship with.
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Dump as a verb (transitive):
To knock heavily; to stump.
Examples:
"rfquotek Halliwell"
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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."
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Dump as a verb (transitive, US):
To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
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Dump as a noun (UK, archaic):
A thick, ill-shapen piece.
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Dump as a noun (UK, archaic):
A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
Examples:
"rfquotek Smart"
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Junk as a noun:
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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Junk as a noun:
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
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Junk as a noun (slang):
Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
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Junk as a noun (slang):
The clothed genitalia.
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Junk as a noun (nautical):
Salt beef.
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Junk as a noun:
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.
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Junk as a noun (dated):
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
Examples:
"rfquotek Lowell"
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Junk as a verb (transitive):
To throw away.
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Junk as a verb (transitive):
To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)
Examples:
"(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."
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Junk as a noun (nautical):
A Chinese sailing vessel.