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buttare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dump noun A site where waste or garbage is disposed of.
  • jettison verb To throw cargo or equipment overboard or overboard-equivalent, usually to lighten a vessel or aircraft in an emergency.
  • pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
  • sling verb To throw something with a swinging or arcing motion.
  • throw verb To send an object through the air using force from your hand or arm.
  • toss verb To throw something lightly or carelessly, usually with an upward motion.

Senses

buttare is used for these senses in English:

  • dump (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  • dump (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.
  • jettison (figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
  • pitch (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • sling To throw with a sling.
  • throw To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
  • throw out (idiomatic) To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.

dump — full definition

  1. noun A site where waste or garbage is disposed of.
  2. noun (informal) An unpleasant, dirty, or run-down place.
  3. verb To get rid of or discard something, often carelessly.
  4. verb (informal) To end a romantic relationship with someone.
  5. verb (computing) To output or copy the full contents of memory, data, or a file, often for debugging.

jettison — full definition

  1. verb To throw cargo or equipment overboard or overboard-equivalent, usually to lighten a vessel or aircraft in an emergency.
  2. verb To abandon or discard something no longer wanted or useful.
  3. noun The act of throwing something overboard, or the items thrown out this way.

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