Definition of "jump"

jump¹

/d͡ʒʌmp/

verb
third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped
1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
  Quotations
  Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
  c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]
2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
3. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
5. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
6. (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
7. (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.
8. (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
9. (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
10. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
11. (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
  Quotations
  Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
  1983, The Big Chill
12. (transitive) To cause to jump.
13. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
14. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
15. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
16. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  Quotations
  to jump a body with a dangerous physic
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
17. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
18. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
19. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
20. To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
  Quotations
  [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.
  2000, United States. Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board: Index digest, page 511
  […] his wife, who was at home with their children, would drive to school to jump his car; both would drive home; […]
  2015 January 30, Robert M. Morgan, Janet Turner Parish, George Deitz, Handbook on Research in Relationship Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 250
21. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
  Quotations
  It jumps with my humour.
  a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act I, scene ii
22. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
  Quotations
  When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.
  2008, Garry Robinson, Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security
23. (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.
  Quotations
  “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.
  1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
noun
plural jumps
1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  Quotations
  To advance by jumps.
  a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706
2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  Quotations
  Our fortune lies / Upon this jump.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene viii]
3. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4. (architecture) 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. (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
13. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
14. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15. (physics, hydrodynamics) 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. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
17. (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
18. (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.
19. (film) Clipping of jump cut.
20. (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
  Quotations
  Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.
  1950 December 23, Billboard, page 36
adverb
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Exactly; precisely
  Quotations
  Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
  c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 1, lines 64–65
adjective
comparative more jump, superlative most jump
1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
  Quotations
  jump names
  1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
  Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

jump²

/d͡ʒʌmp/

noun
plural jumps
1. A kind of loose jacket for men.

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