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Jump   /dʒəmp/   Listen
verb
Jump  v. t.  
1.
To pass over by means of a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
2.
To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
3.
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. (Obs.) "To jump a body with a dangerous physic."
4.
(Smithwork)
(a)
To join by a butt weld.
(b)
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
5.
(Quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
To jump a claim, to enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. (Western U. S. & Australia) See Claim, n., 3.
To jump one's bail, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. (Slang, U. S.)
To jump the gun, to begin to run (in a footrace) before the starting gun has fired; hence, (fig.) to begin any activity before the designated starting time.


jump  v. t.  Same as jump-start, v. t..


jump  v. i.  (past & past part. jumped; pres. part. jumping)  
1.
To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. "Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square."
2.
To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. "The jumping chariots." "A flock of geese jump down together."
3.
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with. "It jumps with my humor."
To jump at, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.


noun
jump  n.  
1.
A kind of loose jacket for men.
2.
pl. A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.


Jump  n.  
1.
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. "To advance by jumps."
2.
An effort; an attempt; a venture. (Obs.) "Our fortune lies Upon thisjump."
3.
The space traversed by a leap.
4.
(Mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
5.
(Arch.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
6.
A jump-start; as, to get a jump from a passing mmotorist.
From the jump, from the start or beginning. (Colloq.)
Jump joint.
(a)
A butt joint.
(b)
A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels.
Jump seat.
(a)
A movable carriage seat.
(b)
A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.


jump  n.  Same as jump-start, n..


adjective
Jump  adj.  Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise. (Obs.) "Jump names."


adverb
Jump  adv.  Exactly; pat. (Obs.)





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"Jump" Quotes from Famous Books



... never stop at anything—there's Jack Madcapper and Tom Devil McCary, why, they are daisies. They buy their horses here—well, they work 'em, never stop to open a gate, let the horses go and clear it, over they go buggy and all. Fences? Well it's a little relish now and then to jump 'em, and you ought to see the buggies fly in the air. They always take a rope or two to mend up a bit. If a horse is injured, they go on with the rest and leave it, and wire us for another team. Horses ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... temple, or else cross the harbour by boat. But the whole town is well worth seeing. It is so tightly pressed between the sea and the bases of the hills that there is only room for one real street; and this is so narrow that a man could anywhere jump from the second story of a house upon the water-side into the second story of the opposite house upon the land-side. And it is as picturesque as it is narrow, with its awnings and polished balconies and fluttering figured draperies. From this main street several little ruelles ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution. — N. revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction &c. 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat[Fr], counter revolution. jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience|; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm. legerdemain &c. (trick) 545. V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... his clothes, he mounted on any kind of a horse, which he made to bound in the air, to jump the ditch, to leap the palisade, and to turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand. There he broke not his lance; for it is the greatest foolishness in the world to say, I have broken ten lances at tilts or in fight. A carpenter ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various
... the trout you hooked. I wish you'd got it. You nearly had it too when you had to jump out," ventured Fisher. ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed


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