| dump | 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; now used only in the plural. "March slowly on in solemn dump." (Hudibras) "Doleful dumps the mind oppress." (Shak) "I was musing in the midst of my dumps." (Bunyan) The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannae." 2. Absence of mind; revery. 3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." 4. An old kind of dance. Origin: Cf. Dial. Sw. Dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. Dompig damp, G. Dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. Damp, or rather perh. Dump, v. T. Cf. Damp, or Dump. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped. 4. <chemical> A pile of ore or rock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dumping syndrome | <syndrome> A group of symptoms that occur when food or liquid enters the small intestine too rapidly. These symptoms include cramps, nausea, diarrhoea, and dizziness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dumpling | A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling. Origin: Dimin. Of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. Dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. To dump in to plunge into, and E. Dump, v. T. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dumposome | <cell biology> A protein, possibly even a new organelle, found in the one-celled ciliated protozoan tetrahymena, an organism which contains two nuclei (unlike most other organisms which only contain one) - the macronucleus and the micronucleus. During sexual reproduction, in which two tetrahymena fuse and produce four offspring, this protein destroys the two parental macronuclei (whose genetic material were not used during the sexual reproduction) and removes the genes related to sexual reproduction from all offspring macronuclei. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (09 Oct 1997) |
| beam dump | <radiobiology> A mass of shielding material which absorbs the energy of a beam of particles or electromagnetic radiation. (09 Oct 1997) |
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