jump

verb

to go airborne by using the legs to push oneself upward
physically or metaphorically leap, physical motion
stock prices, increase
be excited for an opportunity, getting there first
to escape, bail out
attack, gangsta style

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noun

motion through the air, generally vertical
instruction for a computer
physically or metaphorically leap, physical motion
stock prices, increase
be excited for an opportunity, getting there first

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌmp/ / /d͡ʒʊmp/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely. Cognates Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
“jump names”
“Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch”

adv

Exactly; precisely
“Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.”

name

A surname.

noun

Etymology: Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.

A kind of loose jacket for men.

verb

To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
“The boy jumped over a fence.”
“Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.”
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
“She is going to jump from the diving board.”
To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
“to jump a stream”
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To jerk the body involuntarily in response to a sudden or unexpected stimulus.
“That balloon popping made me jump.”
“He jumped when he looked up to see a man standing before him.”
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
“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.
“The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.”
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
“I hate it when people jump the queue.”
To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
To attack suddenly and violently.
“The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.”
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
“Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.”
To cause to jump.
“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.
“to jump a body with a dangerous physic”
To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
To bore with a jumper.
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
“[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.”
“[…] his wife, who was at home with their children, would drive to school to jump his car; both would drive home;[…]”
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
“It jumps with my humour.”
“The fortune of the dice jumpeth not commonly with the fortune of war.”
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
“When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.”
To flee; to make one's escape.
““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.”
To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
“The administration is jumping back from that message.”
“Think hard before you jump towards a particular solution.”
To switch locations on chromosomes.
To commit suicide.