jump

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: jŭmp, IPA(key): /dʒʌmp/, [d͡ʒʌmp]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology 1

A tap dancer jumping.

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "gmq" is not valid. See WT:LOL. origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempaną, *gembaną (“to hop, skip, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰemb- (“to spring, hop, jump”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Related to jumble.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) 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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
  2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
    She is going to jump from the diving board.
  3. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
    to jump a stream
  4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  5. (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.
  6. (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.
  7. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
    I hate it when people jump the queue.
  8. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
    The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
  9. (transitive, slang) 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.
    - From the motion picture The Big Chill.
  10. (transitive) To cause to jump.
    The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
  11. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
  12. (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.
  13. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      to jump a body with a dangerous physic
  15. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
  16. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  17. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
  18. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      It jumps with my humour.
  19. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
    • 2008, Garry Robinson, Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security:
      When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.
  20. (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.
    • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League:
      “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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from jump (verb)

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See also jumped, jamp, jumper and jumping

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Translations
propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne — see also leap
react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently
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Noun

jump (plural jumps)

  1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      To advance by jumps.
  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Our fortune lies / Upon this jump.
  3. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
  4. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
    The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
  6. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
    He went off a jump.
  7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
    There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
  8. 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.
  9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  10. A jumping move in a board game.
    the knight's jump in chess
  11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
    Press jump to start.
  12. (sports, equestrianism) 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.
  13. (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.
  14. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
  15. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
  16. (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
Quotations
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
Derived terms
Terms derived from jump (noun)

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Translations
instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body
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Adverb

jump (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely
    • (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 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.

Adjective

jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)

  1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
    • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      jump names
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

jump (plural jumps)

  1. A kind of loose jacket for men.
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