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jump

/dʒʌmp/
/dʒʌmp/

noun
verb
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards. (Example: The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.)
An object which causes one to jump, a ramp. (Example: He went off a jump.)
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. (Example: There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.)
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. (Example: She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.)
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A jumping move in a board game. (Example: the knight's jump in chess)
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). (Example: Press jump to start.)
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. (Example: Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.)
(with on) An early start or an advantage. (Example: He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.)
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
Short for jump-start. (Example: My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?)

adjective
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. (Example: Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.)
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. (Example: She is going to jump from the diving board.)
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. (Example: to jump a stream)
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. (Example: The sudden sharp sound made me jump.)
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up. (Example: Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.)
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. (Example: The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.)
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward. (Example: I hate it when people jump the queue.)
To attack suddenly and violently. (Example: The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.)
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
To cause to jump. (Example: The rider jumped the horse over the fence.)
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
To flee; to make one's escape.

adverb
Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

noun
Exactly; precisely
An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

jump

/dʒʌmp/
/dʒʌmp/

noun
A kind of loose jacket for men.
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