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Jump

verb

(past & past part. jumped; pres. part. jumping)

1.

Move forward by leaps and bounds. Synonyms: bound, leap, spring. "The child leapt across the puddle" , "Can you jump over the fence?"

2.

Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm. Synonyms: start, startle.

3.

Make a sudden physical attack on.

4.

Increase suddenly and significantly.

5.

Be highly noticeable. Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out.

6.

Enter eagerly into.

7.

Rise in rank or status. Synonyms: climb up, rise.

8.

Jump down from an elevated point. Synonyms: jump off, leap. "Every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge" , "The widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

9.

Run off or leave the rails. Synonym: derail.

10.

Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. Synonyms: chute, parachute.

11.

Cause to jump or leap. Synonym: leap.

12.

Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery. Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart.

13.

Bypass. Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over.

14.

Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another. Synonym: leap. "Jump to a conclusion" , "Jump from one thing to another"

15.

Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. Synonym: alternate.

noun

1.

A sudden and decisive increase. Synonym: leap.

2.

An abrupt transition. Synonyms: leap, saltation.

3.

(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another.

4.

A sudden involuntary movement. Synonyms: start, startle.

5.

Descent with a parachute. Synonym: parachuting.

6.

The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground. Synonym: jumping. "The jumping was unexpected"

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... dog, too; and that took me some time. You see, his business is to run along the edge of the pipe, show himself now and then, and then leap through those openings in the screen. Well, to make him do that, I taught him by giving him a piece of bread each time he came through; and if he would not jump, then he got no bread and no cheese, for he is fond of cheese, I can ...

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... ranged in ever-widening circles for fuel to last through the long night ahead. Within an hour I had collected a fair-sized pile of wood, but I thought I'd better have even more. My quest took me farther among the trees. Of a sudden there came a whirr of wings that made me jump and drop my load, as a number of grouse flew in all directions, their booming wings fairly ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

... S. Mrs. Reynolds can afford to cut away the goods from under all lace, which makes my heart jump! Perhaps tho even tho I'm sorry for her, if she hadn't promised to cut away the goods from under the lace in my pink dress, I wouldn't have adopted myself out to her. So I shall see you when I recite "The Little Martyr of Smyrna" with the ...

— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake

... far too soon were Ronnie Hutchison, O.C. Machine Gun Section, who went to the M.G.C. His favourite word of command was "Gallop," and his joy to jump ditches and hedges with his carts; Pat Rigg and David Marshall, also Machine Gunners; Willie Don, who had to leave us in Egypt owing to heart trouble. His Grace of Canterbury himself could not have intoned words of command more melodiously than Willie did. Charlie Herdman, our finest exponent ...

— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie

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