Sekirov Dictionary

jump

/d͡ʒʌmp/

verb27

  1. to push hard with the legs so that the whole body leaves the ground for a moment
  2. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
  3. To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
  4. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  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 cause to jump.
  7. (slang) To commit suicide.
  8. To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
  9. (figurative) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
  10. To jerk the body involuntarily in response to a sudden or unexpected stimulus.
  11. To drop sharply downward at the sound of a bowstring release or the fire of a gun.
  12. To attack suddenly and violently.
  13. To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
  14. To switch locations on chromosomes.
  15. (figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
  16. To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
  17. To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
  18. To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
  19. (slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
  20. To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
  21. To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
  22. To join by a buttweld.
  23. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  24. To bore with a jumper.
  25. (slang, no longer used) To flee; to make one's escape.
  26. (no longer used) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  27. (no longer used) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

noun22

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

adjective1

  1. (no longer used) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

adverb1

  1. (no longer used) Exactly; precisely
forms

jamp · jumped · jumpedst · jumping · jumpeth · jumps · jumpest · more jump · most jump

Phrases with jump

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