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Jump

//d͡ʒʌmp// adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Exact; matched; fitting; precise. obsolete
"jump names"

Adverb

1
Exactly; precisely not-comparable, obsolete
"Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch."

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
"To advance by jumps."
2
A kind of loose jacket for men.
3
the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground wordnet
4
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
"Our fortune lies / Upon this jump."
5
descent with a parachute wordnet

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6
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
7
a sudden involuntary movement wordnet
8
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
9
(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another wordnet
10
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
"The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane."
11
an abrupt transition wordnet
12
An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
"The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly."
13
a sudden and decisive increase wordnet
14
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
"There were a couple of jumps from the bridge."
15
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
"She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving."
16
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
17
A jumping move in a board game.
"the knight's jump in chess"
18
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
"Press jump to start."
19
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
"Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second."
20
An early start or an advantage. with-on
"He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before."
21
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
22
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.
23
Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike slang
"the number of serious offences in England and Wales involving a knife or sharp object recorded in the year ending March 2024 was 54 percent higher – a jump of nearly 22,000 cases – than the figure for 2016."
24
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
25
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
26
Ellipsis of jump-start. US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
"My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?"
27
Clipping of jump cut. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
28
Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
"Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago."

Verb

1
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. intransitive
"The boy jumped over a fence."
2
go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions wordnet
3
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. intransitive
"She is going to jump from the diving board."
4
rise in rank or status wordnet
5
To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap. transitive
"to jump a stream"

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6
increase suddenly and significantly wordnet
7
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. intransitive
8
pass abruptly from one state or topic to another wordnet
9
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. intransitive
"The sudden sharp sound made me jump."
10
bypass wordnet
11
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up. figuratively, intransitive
"Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits."
12
enter eagerly into wordnet
13
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. intransitive
"The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop."
14
make a sudden physical attack on wordnet
15
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward. transitive
"I hate it when people jump the queue."
16
start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery wordnet
17
To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop. transitive
18
move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm wordnet
19
To attack suddenly and violently. transitive
"The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley."
20
move forward by leaps and bounds wordnet
21
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person). slang, transitive
"Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag."
22
cause to jump or leap wordnet
23
To cause to jump. transitive
"The rider jumped the horse over the fence."
24
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute wordnet
25
To move the distance between two opposing subjects. transitive
26
run off or leave the rails wordnet
27
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it. transitive
28
jump down from an elevated point wordnet
29
To increase speed aggressively and without warning. intransitive
30
be highly noticeable wordnet
31
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. obsolete, transitive
"to jump a body with a dangerous physic"
32
To join by a buttweld. transitive
33
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
34
To bore with a jumper.
35
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
"[Someone] and Mr. Benfield were at the corner of Elm and Walton Streets when they were approached by Mr. Gray, who asked for help to jump his car. When informed they did not have jumper cables, Mr. Gray asked them to take him to get some."
36
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with. obsolete
"It jumps with my humour."
37
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter. intransitive
"When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed."
38
To flee; to make one's escape. archaic, intransitive, slang
"“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!” Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts."
39
To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly. figuratively, intransitive
"The administration is jumping back from that message."
40
To switch locations on chromosomes. intransitive
41
To commit suicide. intransitive, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely. Cognates Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

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Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.

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