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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



... 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 ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... 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
... the season is here; Small is the boon that we sadly invoke: Butcher it, murder it, jump on its ear!— Down ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams


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