Difference between Dump and Floor

What is the difference between Dump and Floor?

Dump as a verb is to release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. while Floor as a verb is to cover or furnish with a floor.

Dump

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. (informal) To end a relationship with. 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. To precipitate (esp. snow) heavily.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. An act of dumping, or its result. A storage place for supplies, especially military. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place. An act of defecation. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural). Absence of mind; revery. A pile of ore or rock. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. An old kind of dance. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

Example sentence: The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.

Floor

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover or furnish with a floor.To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.To amaze or greatly surprise.To finish or make an end of.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.The lower inside surface of a hollow space.A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.A storey/story of a building.In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.A horizontal, flat ore body.The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

Example sentence: I try my best to keep my feet on the floor and stay humble and let my ability do the talking.

We hope you now know whether to use Dump or Floor in your sentence.

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