What's the difference between dump and gump?

Dump


Definition:

  • (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
  • (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
  • (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
  • (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  • (v. t.) An old kind of dance.
  • (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  • (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  • (n.) That which is dumped.
  • (n.) A pile of ore or rock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumping-syndrome is a severe complication of gastric surgery after operations which destroy or weaken the sphincter mechanism of the pylorus.
  • (2) And when it looked like they could get away with no legislation, they dumped US CAP completely.
  • (3) Michaelis constants for (+)5,10-methylene-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate [(+)CH2H4folate] were 0.014 mM in the case of methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-phosphate (dUMP) and 0.55 mM when it served as methyl-group donor for 2'-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine-5'-phosphate (dUflMP); the corresponding Km values for dUMP and dUflMP were 0.01 mM and 0.11 mM, respectively.
  • (4) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (5) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
  • (6) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
  • (7) The binding characteristics of the substrate analogue 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridylate (FdUMP) could be clearly distinguished from that of dUMP by comparing their binding in phphate and Tris-HCl.
  • (8) It appears from these studies that ;dumping' is due to rapid gastric emptying and mainly due to the drainage procedure.
  • (9) dUMP binary complex can be isolated and conveniently assayed by nitrocellulose disc filtration using [6-3H]dUMP as the radioactive ligand.
  • (10) The previous government advanced five major dredge projects involving dumping in the marine park,” he said.
  • (11) Undergraduates dump each other with lines like: "Going out with you is like dating a Stairmaster."
  • (12) The incidence of dumping after truncal or selective vagotomy with pyloroplasty and highly selective vagotomy without a drainage procedure was assessed both clinically and experimentally.
  • (13) Responding to a question from host Karl Stefanovic about Kyrgios’s behaviour at Wimbledon and Tomic’s attack on Tennis Australia , which led to him being dumped from the Davis Cup team, Fraser said: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
  • (14) We will receive the full impact of the waste when they start dumping.
  • (15) Four patients had severe dyspeptic symptoms and four severe dyspepsia plus dumping.
  • (16) Cytotoxicity resulting from dUMP misincorporation was consistent with the enhanced toxicity of piritrexim which was observed when HL-60 cells or MOLT-4 cells were exposed concurrently to exogenous deoxyuridine.
  • (17) In the thirties the subdivision into a so-called early and late dumping syndrome follows.
  • (18) What’s fair about this generation dumping our burdens on our children and grandchildren?
  • (19) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
  • (20) • As Firefox dumps Google for Yahoo, is the clock ticking for Mozilla?

Gump


Definition:

  • (n.) A dolt; a dunce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
  • (2) That might sometimes be true – Forrest Gump , I'm looking at you – but there's also a difference in the way a film is consumed.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The film team review Jurassic World At Bubba Gump, he recognised a customer: Rae Dawn Chong, an actor who had appeared in 80s hits Commando and The Color Purple.
  • (4) In the oral cavity, a "flail" mandible, an "Andy Gump" deformity, and a sublingual hematoma may occur.
  • (5) It paid $400,000 over the past year to a Washington lobby group, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to work on Capitol Hill to work for the removal of the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organisations.
  • (6) In an interview with CNBC, Ma said he believed that his customers and employees should come before shareholders, but added: “I am very honoured and so excited … the responsibility I’ve been thinking about the next five to 10 years is: how can I make sure these shareholders are happy?” Ma told CNBC that he had got the idea for his business when he visited the US, and looks to Forrest Gump for inspiration.
  • (7) July 12, 2015 Pop culture mashups And in that last recourse for the commentator searching desperately for a joke, the internet opened the pop culture vault and hastily cut up everything from Forrest Gump – “ run, Chapo, run ” – to Frozen – “ I’m free, I’m free!
  • (8) Are you stupid, Mr Gruber?” the committee chairman Darryl Issa asked Jonathan Gruber, before comparing the professor to the film character Forrest Gump.
  • (9) Not even seven Oscar nominations could help it compete with the success of hits such as Speed, Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump.
  • (10) As a youth he dabbled in stand-up comedy and did a spot of stripping (once for a friend’s grandmother) before – at the age of 19 – moving to Maui for a year, living in a van and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
  • (11) Gump n Hell gave it an Indonesian spin, featuring Piko Taro using an apple and a banana to create the shape of the communist icon, the hammer and sickle.
  • (12) The major finding in these patients was rib resorption and deteriorating cosmetic appearance and development of "Andy Gump" deformity.
  • (13) We will hope for our best but it is like Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates.
  • (14) And he was, at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company franchise in Hawaii, by actor Rae Dawn Chong, which at least has the ring of Lana Turner at the counter of Schwab’s Pharmacy.
  • (15) The end result was a consensus that, like Forrest Gump, Slahi popped up around significant events by coincidence, not design.
  • (16) Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more “I’m a little bit like Forrest Gump, like this,” Flores says, miming the style of the movie character and laughing loudly.
  • (17) Boundary-pushing satire, in the form of comics such as Gump n Hell , are also starting to emerge.
  • (18) Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma, a former English teacher who counts Forrest Gump as his inspiration.
  • (19) Even though Hanks achieved his greatest career success appearing in dramas in the 90s, such as Apollo 13 and winning his Oscars for (in typical Oscars style) his two worst films, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump , as well as appearing in romcoms ( Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail ) written and directed by Nora Ephron ("She was a taskmaster, but gentle – I wish I was making a movie with Nora tomorrow"), I personally will always have a soft spot for his 80s comedic performances.
  • (20) Our techniques in reconstruction of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, esophagus, nose, Andy-Gump deformities (anterior jaw complex resection), pharyngo-orocutaneous fistulas, and radionecrosis of the mandible are presented.

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