jump | |
1. v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | |
The boy jumped over a fence. | |
Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | |
She is going to jump from the diving board. | |
3. v. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. | |
to jump a stream | |
4. v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. | |
The sudden sharp sound made me jump. | |
6. v. (intransitive) 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. | |
The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop. | |
7. v. To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward. | |
I hate it when people jump the queue. | |
8. v. To attack suddenly and violently. | |
The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley. | |
9. v. To engage in sexual intercourse. | |
10. v. To cause to jump. | |
The rider jumped the horse over the fence. | |
11. v. To move the distance between two opposing subjects. | |
12. v. 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. v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning. | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. | |
15. v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld. | |
16. v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. | |
17. v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper. | |
18. v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with. | |
19. v. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter. | |
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To flee; to make one's escape. | |
21. n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | |
22. n. An effort; an attempt; a venture. | |
23. n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. | |
24. n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. | |
25. n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards. | |
The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane. | |
26. n. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp. | |
He went off a jump. | |
27. n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. | |
There were a couple of jumps from the bridge. | |
28. n. 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. | |
29. n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. | |
30. n. A jumping move in a board game. | |
the knight's jump in chess | |
31. n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). | |
Press jump to start. | |
32. n. (sports) 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. | |
33. n. (with on) An early start or an advantage. | |
He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before. | |
Their research department gave them the jump on the competition. | |
34. n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. | |
35. n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space. | |
36. n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location. | |
37. adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely | |
38. adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise. | |
39. n. A kind of loose jacket for men. | |