Definition of jump Jump
/ʤʌˈmp/ - [jump] - jump
We found 69 definitions of jump from 8 different sources.
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What does jump mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: jumps |
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| jump - the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected" | ||
| jumping | ||
| actuation, propulsion the act of propelling | ||
| header a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" | ||
| hop the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) | ||
| leaping, bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | ||
| hurdle, vault a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | ||
| jumping up and down jumping in one spot (as in excitement); "the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him" | ||
| jump - descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" | ||
| parachuting | ||
| descent the act of changing your location in a downward direction | ||
| jump - a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance" | ||
| leap | ||
| increase the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" | ||
| jump - (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another | ||
| transition a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | ||
| jump - a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start" | ||
| startle, start | ||
| inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | ||
| startle reaction, startle response a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions | ||
| moro reflex, startle reflex a normal reflex of young infants; a sudden loud noise causes the child to stretch out the arms and flex the legs | ||
| jump - an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues" | ||
| leap, saltation | ||
| transition a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | ||
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| jump - move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" | ||
| leap, bound, spring | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| jump out, leap out, stick out, stand out, jump jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone); "The attackers leapt out from the bushes" | ||
| bestride, climb on, hop on, jump on, mount up, get on, mount get up on the back of; "mount a horse" | ||
| pronk jump straight up; "kangaroos pronk" | ||
| ricochet, take a hop, rebound, bound, recoil, resile, spring, reverberate, bounce form the boundary of; be contiguous to | ||
| burst come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" | ||
| bounce hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" | ||
| capriole perform a capriole, in ballet | ||
| galumph move around heavily and clumsily; "the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen" | ||
| ski jump jump on skis | ||
| saltate leap or skip, often in dancing; "These fish swim with a saltating motion" | ||
| vault bound vigorously | ||
| leapfrog progress by large jumps instead of small increments | ||
| vault, overleap bound vigorously | ||
| curvet perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | ||
| hop-skip, hop, skip travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country" | ||
| caper jump about playfully | ||
| hop travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country" | ||
| jump - cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop" | ||
| leap | ||
| bound, leap, spring, jump form the boundary of; be contiguous to | ||
| jump - increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight" | ||
| wax, climb, mount, rise go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" | ||
| jump - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" | ||
| pass over, skip, skip over | ||
| leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, neglect, overlook, miss, drop disregard intentionally or let pass | ||
| jump - enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game" | ||
| participate, enter share in something | ||
| jump - make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat" | ||
| set on, assail, assault, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| jump - jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre" | ||
| leap, jump off | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| jump - jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | ||
| chute, parachute | ||
| dive, plunk, plunge swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells" | ||
| glide move smoothly and effortlessly | ||
| descend, come down, go down, fall move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" | ||
| sky dive, skydive jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | ||
| jump - move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" | ||
| startle, start | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| shy throw quickly | ||
| boggle startle with amazement or fear | ||
| rear back rear backwards on its hind legs; "the frightened horse reared back" | ||
| jackrabbit go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | ||
| jump - pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" | ||
| leap | ||
| switch, change, shift make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" | ||
| jump - run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" | ||
| derail | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| jump - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | ||
| alternate | ||
| vary, alter, change make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" | ||
| jump - rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" | ||
| rise, climb up | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| jump - be highly noticeable | ||
| leap out, jump out, stand out, stick out | ||
| seem, appear, look appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters" | ||
| jump - start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | ||
| jumpstart, jump-start | ||
| start up, start play in the starting lineup | ||
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Wiktionary 
- jump (Noun)
An instance of propelling oneself upwards. - jump (Noun)
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. - jump (Noun)
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. - jump (Noun)
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. - jump (Noun)
A jumping move in a board game. - jump (Noun)
A button of a joypad, joystick or similar device whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed it causes a video game character to jump propel itself upwards. - jump (Noun)
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. - jump (Noun)
An early start or an advantage. - jump (Noun)
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. - jump (Noun)
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from the ordinary space. - jump (Verb)
To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. - jump (Verb)
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. - jump (Verb)
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. - jump (Verb)
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus such as a sharp prick or a loud sound by jerking the body violently. - jump (Verb)
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. - jump (Verb)
To move to a position in a queue/ line that is further forward. - jump (Verb)
To attack suddenly and violently. - jump (Verb)
To engage in sexual intercourse . - jump (Verb)
To cause to jump. - jump (Verb)
To move the distance between two opposing subjects. - jump (Verb)
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it. - jump (Verb)
To increase speed aggressively and without warning. - jump (Adverb)
exactly; precisely.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- jump (n.)
A kind of loose jacket for men. - jump (n.)
A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century. - jump (v. i.)
To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. - jump (v. i.)
To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. - jump (v. i.)
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with. - jump (v. t.)
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream. - jump (v. t.)
To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch. - jump (v. t.)
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. - jump (v. t.)
To join by a butt weld. - jump (v. t.)
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. - jump (v. t.)
To bore with a jumper. - jump (n.)
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. - jump (n.)
An effort; an attempt; a venture. - jump (n.)
The space traversed by a leap. - jump (n.)
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. - jump (n.)
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. - jump (a.)
Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise. - jump (adv.)
Exactly; pat.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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jump
An instance of jumping. -
jump
To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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jump
jump, v.i. to spring upward, or forward, or both: to bound: to pass to as by a leap: to agree, coincide (with).—v.t. to pass by a leap: to skip over: to cause to start, as game:—pr.p. jump′ing; pa.p. jumped.—n. act of jumping: a bound, a hazard.—adv. (Shak.) exactly.—ns. Jump′er, one who jumps: a long iron drill or borer used in quarries and mines: (pl.) a term applied to certain Welsh Methodists (c. 1760), who jumped about in worship: Jump′ing-deer, the black-tailed American deer; Jump′ing-hare, a South African rodent, akin to the jerboas; Jump′-seat, a carriage-seat which may be moved backwards or forwards, so as to be used as single or double: a carriage with a movable seat; Count′er-jump′er, a draper's shopman.—Jump a claim (U.S.), to take land to which another already holds a claim; Jump at, to embrace with eagerness; Jump one's bail, to abscond, forfeiting one's bail; Jump over, to disregard, omit; Jump over the broomstick, to make an irregular marriage. [From a Teut. root seen in Sw. dial. gumpa, Middle High Ger. gumpen, to jump.] -
jump
jump, Jumper, jump′er, n. a loose garment: overall. [More prob. a thing to be jumped or slipped on, than from Fr. jupe, a petticoat, skirt.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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jump
The jump, or dining-room jump; a species of robbery effected by ascending a ladder placed by a sham lamp-lighter, against the house intended to be robbed. It is so called, because, should the lamp-lighter be put to flight, the thief who ascended the ladder has no means of escaping but that of jumping down.
Wikipedia 
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A jump is when someone bend their legs and quickly straightens them. This lifts them off the ground. They either go up or up and to one side.
Animals.
Almost all animals can jump. They jump to get food, escape danger, or to go places. Jumping can also represent happiness or joy. Some animals jump differently than humans. The elephant is an animal that can not jump.
Sports.
There are sports where the athletes have to jump high (high jump), or far (long jump, triple jump). In basketball, it is good to be able to jump high. It makes it easier to score. In figure skating, there are six major jumps.
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