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dumpIn computing, the process of rapidly transferring data to external memory or to a printer. It is usually done to help with debugging (see bug) or as part of an error-recovery procedure designed to provide data security. A screen dump makes a printed copy of the current screen display. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At least I am, and nearly twenty years had elapsed, and here was I burdened under a load of affection, like a sack of returned love-letters, with no lap into which to dump them. He was so fastidious and prim about his place that a boy would go to a good deal of trouble to throw a dead cat into his back yard, or to dump a sackful of tin cans in his alley. Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. |
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