jump

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.4.3 Translations 1.5 Adverb

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[edit] Etymology

Probably from Middle English (?). Akin to Old Dutch gumpen (“‘to jump’”), Low German gumpen (“‘to jump’”), Danish gumpe (“‘to jolt’”), gimpe (“‘to move up and down’”), Swedish gumpa

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: jŭmp, IPA: /dʒʌmp/, SAMPA: /dZVmp/
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to 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.

2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
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.
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 player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.

6. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
7. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

   The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

8. (transitive) To force to jump.

   The rider jumped the horse over the fence.

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• (propel oneself upwards): leap
• (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall): jump down, jump off
• (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location): skydive
• (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently): flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch

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See also jumped, jumper and jumping

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[edit] Noun

jump (plural jumps)

1. An instance of propelling oneself into the air.
2. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
3. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
4. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
5. A jumping move in a board game.
6. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
7. (idiomatic, 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• (instance of propelling oneself into the air): leap
• (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location):
• (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location)::
• (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body):: flinch, jerk, twitch

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[edit] Adverb

jump (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely

   "Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,

   With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch." - Marcellus, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65