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PRONUNCIATION OF RUBBISH DUMP

rubbish dump  [ˈrʌbɪʃ dʌmp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RUBBISH DUMP

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Rubbish dump is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RUBBISH DUMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rubbish dump

Landfill

A landfill site is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world. Some landfills are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material. A landfill also may refer to ground that has been filled in with rocks instead of waste materials, so that it can be used for a specific purpose, such as for building houses. Unless they are stabilized, these areas may experience severe shaking or liquefaction of the ground during a large earthquake.

Definition of rubbish dump in the English dictionary

The definition of rubbish dump in the dictionary is a place or area where waste materials are dumped.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RUBBISH DUMP


bump
bʌmp
chump
tʃʌmp
clump
klʌmp
crump
krʌmp
dump
dʌmp
gump
ɡʌmp
high-jump
ˈhaɪˌdʒʌmp
hump
hʌmp
jump
dʒʌmp
lump
lʌmp
plump
plʌmp
pump
pʌmp
rump
rʌmp
slump
slʌmp
stump
stʌmp
sump
sʌmp
thump
θʌmp
trump
trʌmp
tump
tʌmp
ump
ʌmp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RUBBISH DUMP

rubbery
rubbidies
rubbidy
rubbies
rubbing
rubbing alcohol
rubbish
rubbish bag
rubbish bin
rubbish chute
rubbish collection
rubbish tin
rubbish tip
rubbishy
rubbities
rubbity
rubble
rubblework
rubbly
rubboard

WORDS THAT END LIKE RUBBISH DUMP

air pump
ammunition dump
arms dump
breast pump
broad jump
fist bump
fuel pump
heat pump
high jump
long jump
mine dump
munitions dump
on the jump
on the stump
parachute jump
pump-and-dump
refuse dump
screen dump
the high jump
vacuum pump

Synonyms and antonyms of rubbish dump in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rubbish dump» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RUBBISH DUMP

Find out the translation of rubbish dump to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rubbish dump from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rubbish dump» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

垃圾堆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vertedero de basuras
570 millions of speakers

English

rubbish dump
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बकवास डंप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَقْلَبُ النُّفَايَات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

свалка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

depósito de lixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নোংরা আবর্জনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépotoir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sampah sampah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Müllhalde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ごみ捨て場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쓰레기 수거장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sampah sampah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỗ đổ rác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குப்பை கூளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कचरा डंप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çöp Kutusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

discarica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmietnisko
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сміттєзвалище
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

groapă de gunoi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χωματερή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vullishoop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

soptipp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

søppelfylling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rubbish dump

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RUBBISH DUMP»

The term «rubbish dump» is regularly used and occupies the 86.547 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RUBBISH DUMP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rubbish dump» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rubbish dump» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rubbish dump

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUBBISH DUMP»

Discover the use of rubbish dump in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rubbish dump and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stig of the Dump
There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Clive King's Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic. It is the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man Stig.
Clive King, 2010
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Ages 6-8
Share the experience of going to the rubbish dump. Encourage that students to share their own experiences with the class. Have them attempt to recall how it looked and smelled and what kinds of things were dumped there. • Discuss what the ...
Naomi Budden, 2003
3
Stobi: Results of the Joint American-Yugoslav Archaeological ...
2nd 514 RH. Room 2 Destruction debris Residential Early 5th 515 Theater East Parodos Rubbish Dump 4th accumulation 517 Theater East Parodos, Tr. Rubbish Dump 3rd VIII accumulation 523 Theater East Parodos Rubbish Dump 2nd half ...
Virginia R. Anderson-Stojanović, James Wiseman, 2014
4
Beneath the Sword of Damoclese: A Life with M. S.
When I finally left school in the early nineteen sixties, I built a bike from an old frame, and other bits that I'd found on the rubbish dump. It stood me in good stead , until I later, found a wondrous machine called a wing wheel. It was a pedal cycle  ...
Fraser Scott, 2011
5
Digging for Treasure: A Guide to Finding Valuable Victorian ...
Enquiries from old men lurking outside the local inn confirmed that the rubbish dump and gasworks had indeed once been down the riverside until the new estate was built. When this happens, you have to either give up or buy a house!
Ron Dale, 2012
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Architecture Depends
have no direct control over this social system; rubbish theory thus exposes architecture to two fears: time and dependency. Just opposite our house, the local Council have seen to fit to erect a huge rubbish dump. Well, that is what we will call it ...
Jeremy Till, 2009
7
The Friendly Rubbish Monsters
“Well, I can't think of a better idea,” sighed Albert, “but what if your dad won't drive to the rubbish dump to get your phone back?” “He will,” Sam insisted. “Once, I left my toy car in the park by the sand pit, and Dad drove all the way back to the ...
Anna Peters, 2011
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The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus: Gehena, ...
... the valley became an object of horror and a receptacle for refuse, bodies of animals, criminals and all sorts of other impurities.10 it is believed that eventually it became a rubbish dump where fires burned perpetually to consume the rubbish , ...
Kim Papaioannou, 2013
9
Rubbish Town Hero
Chipo and his little sister Gentle live on Papa Fudu's dumpsite in Rubbish Town, searching for valuable things amongst the rubbish to try to stay alive.
Nicola Davies, 2012
10
Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
A provisional answer might be that we are dealing, after all, not with the actual discharges of colitis or of Crohn's disease, but with the telling of these, so that the 'rubbish dump' or 'Crohn's disease' are characters of the session – and, just as ...
Antonino Ferro, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RUBBISH DUMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rubbish dump is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Melbourne rubbish dump to open shop
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and a Melbourne rubbish tip is cashing in on that with a new shop full of recycled bargains. The new rubbish dump, ... «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
2
Rubbish dump 'washing into sea'
A dump holding 200,000 tonnes of rubbish is being washed into the sea more than 20 years after the problem was identified, a report on the dangers of erosion ... «Sligo Champion, Mar 15»
3
Portsmouth rubbish dump could become indoor snow centre
The council also is exploring whether to turn the land, near the landfill site, into a dry ski slope. Either proposal would pump millions of pounds into the city's ... «Portsmouth News, Feb 15»
4
Birmingham City Council searching for people who turned house …
Residents in a suburb in Birmingham are to be questioned after an empty home was turned into a rubbish dump because of fly tipping. Dozens of black rubbish ... «ITV News, Feb 15»
5
Striking gold - at a rubbish dump
The closure of Latin America's biggest rubbish dump in 2012 was widely applauded. But little more than two years on, many of the rubbish-pickers who worked ... «BBC News, Jan 15»
6
Thailand totters towards waste crisis
Bangkok (AFP) - A blaze at a vast rubbish dump home to six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law ... «Yahoo News, Aug 14»
7
Gunnersbury Park,West London, is turned into a rubbish dump by …
Piles of waste, including a piano, sofas, mattresses, prams, lawn mowers, dirty nappies ... Dumped: Police said the travellers had come to London after attending ... «Daily Mail, Jun 14»
8
Roma on the rubbish dump: British religious leaders call on …
But if he did ever venture to visit the Roma community that has been forcibly rehoused there - thought to be the only such "rubbish dump ghetto" in Europe ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
9
Tunisia police hurt in clashes over rubbish dump
More than 50 people, mostly policemen, have been injured in protests over the reopening of a rubbish dump on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba. «BBC News, Oct 12»
10
Brazil's biggest rubbish dump closes in Rio de Janeiro
The Jardim Gramacho dump, a mountain of rubbish near the city's main airport, will be replaced by a modern recycling plant. The move, while welcomed by ... «BBC News, Jun 12»

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