Dump vs. Slum — What's the Difference?

To release or throw down in a large mass.

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak built quality. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and it's primarily inhabited by impoverished people.

To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle

A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor

To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.

To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

To get rid of; discard

(countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

(Informal) To discard or reject unceremoniously

Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.

(slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

(Computers) To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.

(intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

(Slang) To knock down; beat.

To saunter about in a disreputable manner.

To fall or drop abruptly.

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; - usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

To discharge cargo or contents; unload.

Same as Slimes.

(Slang) To criticize another severely

To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.

A place where refuse is dumped

A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

A storage place for goods or supplies; a depot

Visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

An unordered accumulation; a pile.

(Computers) An instance or the result of dumping stored data.

(Slang) A poorly maintained or disreputable place.

Vulgar Slang An act of defecating. Often used with take.

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

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

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

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

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

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

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

An act of defecation; a defecating.

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

Absence of mind; reverie.

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.

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

(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

A thick, ill-shapen piece.

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

(Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

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

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

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

To end a romantic relationship with.

To knock heavily; to stump.

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

To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

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

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; - now used only in the plural.

Absence of mind; revery.

A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

An old kind of dance.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

That which is dumped.

A pile of ore or rock.

A coarse term for defecation.

To knock heavily; to stump.

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

A coarse term for defecation;

A piece of land where waste materials are dumped

(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

Throw away as refuse;

Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly;

Sell at artificially low prices

Drop in a heap or mass

Fall abruptly;

Knock down with force;