jump

jump

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

   The boy jumped over a fence.

   Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high,

   I can jump 2 metres in the air.

2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

   She is going to jump from the diving board.

3. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
4. (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.

5. (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 players knight jumped the opponents bishop.

6. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

   I hate it when people jump the queue.

7. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

   The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

8. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.

   The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

9. (transitive) To force to jump.

   The rider jumped the horse over the fence.

10. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

    It is quite a jump from teenage angst to bee-keeping.

11. (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.

jump (plural jumps)

1. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

   The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.

2. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

   There were a couple of jumps from th bridge.

3. 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.

4. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
5. A jumping move in a board game.
6. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to jump (propel itself upwards).
7. (sports, horses) 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.

8. (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.

9. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
10. (science fiction) A faster-than-light travel, not observable from the ordinary space.

jump (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely
   • Marcellus, in ""Hamlet"" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65

     Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,

     With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

	saltare
	cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward
	employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location
	propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne
	employ a move in certain board games in which one piece moves over another
	move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward
	To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

	salto
	instance of propelling oneself into the air
	instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location
	An instance of jumping.

ballare

balzare

balzo

cascata

danzare

impennarsi

lancio

ostacolo

rimbalzare

rinvio

saltellare

sbalzo

scavalcare

schizzare

sobbalzare

sobbalzo

spiccare

sussultare

trasalire

tuffo

Altri significati:

(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.

(Should we delete <sup>(+)</sup> this sense?) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to jump (propel itself upwards).

A jumping move in a board game.

(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently

going over something

An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

(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.

An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

(obsolete) exactly; precisely

(intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

(intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

jump (out of the way)

(transitive) To force to jump.

(sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

jump (e.g. to first place)

An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

(transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

(transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

sudden rise (esp. of stock prices)

(transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

(with '''on''' ) An early start or an advantage.

(to) jump

instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body

jumping move in a board game

instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location

An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

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