jump

Plural: jumps

Noun

• a sudden and decisive increase
  • "a jump in attendance"
• an abrupt transition
• (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
• a sudden involuntary movement
• descent with a parachute
• the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
  • "he advanced in a series of jumps"
  • "the jumping was unexpected"
• The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
• An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• A jumping move in a board game.
• A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
• An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
• An early start or an advantage.
• A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
• An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
• An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• Ellipsis of jump-start.
• Clipping of jump cut.
• Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
• A kind of loose jacket for men.

Verb

Verb Forms: jumped, jumping, jumps

• To push oneself off the ground into the air; to move suddenly.
• move forward by leaps and bounds
  • "Can you jump over the fence?"
• move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
• make a sudden physical attack on
  • "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
• increase suddenly and significantly
  • "Prices jumped overnight"
• be highly noticeable
• enter eagerly into
  • "He jumped into the game"
• rise in rank or status
  • "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
• jump down from an elevated point
  • "the parachutist didn't want to jump"
  • "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"
• run off or leave the rails
• jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
• cause to jump or leap
  • "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
• start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
• bypass
• pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
  • "jump to a conclusion"
  • "jump from one thing to another"
• go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
• To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
• To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
• To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
• To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
• To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
• To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
• To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
• To attack suddenly and violently.
• To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
• To cause to jump.
• To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
• To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• To join by a buttweld.
• To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• To bore with a jumper.
• To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
• To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
• To flee; to make one's escape.
• To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
• To switch locations on chromosomes.
• To commit suicide.

Adv

• Exactly; precisely

Adj

• Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Examples

• He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.
• He watched his score jump after strategically placing ’QUARTZ’ on a double letter.
• Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
• I hate it when people jump the queue.
• Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
• My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?
• Press jump to start.
• Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.
• She is going to jump from the diving board.
• She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.
• The administration is jumping back from that message.
• The boy jumped over a fence.
• The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
• The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
• the knight's jump in chess
• The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
• The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
• The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.
• The sudden sharp sound made me jump.
• Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.
• There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
• Think hard before you jump towards a particular solution.
• to jump a stream

Synonyms

alternate, bound, chute, climb up, derail, jump off, jump out, jump-start, jumping, jumpstart, leap, leap out, parachute, parachuting, pass over, rise, saltation, skip, skip over, spring, stand out, start, startle, stick out, accurately, ambush, assail, attack, beat it, copulate with, exactly, flee, flinch, hump, jerk, jump down, jump out of one's skin, jump someone's bones, just, leap out of one's skin, make a hole, one-night stand, rabbit, skydive, slap bang, take off, twitch

Related Words

jumper, jumps

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