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jump

/dʒʌmp/

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What does jump mean?

verb

  1. To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
  2. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
  3. To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
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verb

  1. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  2. To jerk the body involuntarily in response to a sudden or unexpected stimulus.
  3. To drop sharply downward at the sound of a bowstring release or the fire of a gun.
  4. (figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
  5. 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.
  6. To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
  7. To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
  8. To attack suddenly and violently.
  9. (slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
  10. To cause to jump.
  11. To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
  12. To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
  13. To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
  14. To join by a buttweld.
  15. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  16. To bore with a jumper.
  17. To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
  18. To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
  19. (figuratively) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
  20. To switch locations on chromosomes.
  21. (slang) To commit suicide.
  22. (obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  23. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
  24. (archaic, slang) To flee; to make one's escape.

noun

  1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  3. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
  4. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
  6. An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
  7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
  8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  10. A jumping move in a board game.
  11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
  12. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
  13. An early start or an advantage.
  14. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
  15. 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.
  16. (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
  17. An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
  18. A change of the path of execution to a different location.
  19. (informal) Ellipsis of jump-start.
  20. Clipping of jump cut.
  21. Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
  22. A kind of loose jacket for men.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

adverb

  1. (obsolete) Exactly; precisely

adjective

  1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
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In the pages of books

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E’en should he vary somewhat in his story, He cannot make the death of Laius In any wise jump with the oracle.
SophoclesPlays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneTranslated by Francis StorrProject Gutenberg ebook #31
“Hold on a minute, my servant ’ll he’p you with them bags. Jump out and he’p the gentleman, Adolphus”—meaning me, I see.
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry FinnProject Gutenberg ebook #76
More book examples (3)
“To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, trot, my girl, your legs are young.”
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
As a boy he was active, and could jump a bar placed at the height of the "Adam's apple" in his neck.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701