Dictionary Definition
jump
Noun
1 a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in
attendance" [syn: leap]
2 an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from
college to the major leagues" [syn: leap, saltation]
3 (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to
another
5 descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of
parachuting in the army" [syn: parachuting]
6 the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the
ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was
unexpected" [syn: jumping]
Verb
1 move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse
bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle";
"Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: leap, bound, spring]
2 move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or
alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, start]
3 make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers
jumped the woman in the fur coat"
4 increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices
jumped overnight"
6 enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the
game"
8 run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed
because a cow was standing on the tracks" [syn: derail]
9 jump from an airplane and descend with a
parachute [syn: parachute]
10 cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the
tiger through the hoop" [syn: leap]
11 start a car engine whose battery by connecting
it to another car's battery [syn: jumpstart, jump-start]
12 bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so
the sentence was incomprehensible" [syn: pass over,
skip, skip
over]
13 pass abruptly from one state or topic to
another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion" [syn: leap]
14 go back and forth; swing back and forth
between two states or conditions [syn: alternate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /dʒʌmp/, /dZVmp/
Verb
- To propel oneself
rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- The boy jumped over a fence.
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- 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.
- To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To attack suddenly
and violently.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- To force to jump.
- The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
Synonyms
- italbrac propel oneself upwards: leap
- : jump down, jump off
- : skydive
- : flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch
Related terms
- jumpy
- jumpily
- jump about
- jump around
- jump at
- jump down
- jump in
- jump off
- jump on
- jump out
- jump out at
- jump up
Derived terms
See also jumped, jumper and jumping- jumper
- jump leads
- jump out of one's skin
- jump rope
- jump seat
- jump ship
- jump shot
- jump-start
- jump suit
- jump the gun
- jump the shark
- jumped-up
Translations
propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum
causes the body to become airborne
cause oneself to leave an elevated location and
fall downward
employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or
elevated location
react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body
violently
- Danish: spjætte, fare sammen
- Dutch: opspringen, opschrikken
- Finnish: hätkähtää
- French: sursauter
- Norwegian: skvette
- Russian: вскакивать (vskákivat') , вскочить (vskočíit') ; подпрыгивать (podprýgivat') , подпрыгнуть (podprýgnut') ; вздрагивать (vzdrágivat') , вздрогнуть (vzdrógnut')
- Slovene: skočiti, poskočiti
employ a move in certain board games in which
one piece moves over another
- Danish: springe
- Dutch: springen, zetten
- Finnish: hypätä
- Norwegian: hoppe over
- Russian: перепрыгивать (p'er'eprýgivat') (impf), перепрыгнуть (p'er'eprýgnut') ; перескакивать (p'er'eskákivat') , перескочить (p'er'eskočít')
- Slovene: preskočiti
move to a position in (a queue/line) that is
further forward
- Danish: springe over
- Dutch: voordringen
- Finnish: etuilla
- Japanese: (とびこす, tobikosu)
- Norwegian: snike, gå forbi
- Slovene: preskočiti
- ttbc Breton: lammat (1,2,3), sailhañ (1,2), gourlammat (4)
- ttbc Bulgarian: скачам (1,2,3), подскачам (4), прескачам (5)
- ttbc Esperanto: salti
- ttbc Estonian: hüppama
- ttbc German: springen
- Guaraní: po
- ttbc Hebrew: לקפוץ
- ttbc Indonesian: lompat, loncat
- ttbc Interlingua: saltar
- ttbc Korean: 뛰다 (ttwida), 점프하다 (jeompeuhada)
- ttbc Latvian: lekt;
- ttbc Malayalam: ചാടുക (chaatuka)
- ttbc Polish: skakać imperf, skoczyć perf (1, 2, 3), podskoczyć (4), przeskoczyć (5)
- ttbc Portuguese: saltar, pular
- ttbc Romanian: sări, sălta
- ttbc Spanish: saltar
- Tupinambá: por
Noun
- An instance of propelling oneself into the air.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A jumping move in a board game.
- In the context of "sports|horses": An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
Derived terms
Translations
instance of propelling oneself into the air
- Czech: skok
- Danish: spring, hop
- Dutch: sprong
- Finnish: hyppy
- French: saut
- Italian: salto
- Kurdish: باز
- Norwegian: hopp, sprang,
- Russian: прыжок, скачок
- Slovene: skok
instance of causing oneself to fall from an
elevated location
- Danish: spring, hop
- Dutch: sprong
- Finnish: hyppy
- French: saut
- Italian: salto
- Norwegian: hopp, sprang,
- Russian: прыжок
- Slovene: skok
instance of employing a parachute to leave an
aircraft or elevated location
- Danish: spring
- Dutch: sprong
- Finnish: hyppy
- Norwegian: hopp, sprang,
- Russian: прыжок
- Slovene: skok
instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by
jerking the body
jumping move in a board game
- Danish: spring
- Dutch: sprong
- Finnish: hyppy
- Norwegian: sprang
- Russian: прыжок
- Slovene: preskok
- ttbc Arabic: قفز
- ttbc Breton: lamm (1,2), sailh (1)
- ttbc Bulgarian: скок
- ttbc Esperanto: salto
- ttbc Estonian: hüpe
- ttbc German: Sprung
- Guaraní: po
- ttbc Hebrew: קפיצה
- ttbc Interlingua: salto
- ttbc Malayalam: ചാട്ടം (chaattam)
- ttbc Polish: skok
- ttbc Portuguese: salto , pulo
- ttbc Romanian: salt , săritură
- ttbc Spanish: salto
- ttbc Tagalog: talon
- Tupinambá: pora
Adverb
jumpQuotations
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- "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
- "Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
Extensive Definition
Jump may refer to:
- Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards, using one's own power, into the air
- A tool redirecting horizontal velocity into vertical, e.g. a quarter pipe
- Jumping, abandoning or leaving, especially hastily or furtively
- A jump start - a colloquial term for a method of starting an automobile with a dead battery.
- Jump Associates, a design strategy firm based in San Mateo, California
- Jump, South Yorkshire, a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England
- Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine also known as Shonen Jump
- A computer programming language instruction denoting an unconditional branch.
- Jump, a 1999 film
- Jump In!, a Disney Channel Original Movie
- Jump (Alliance-Union universe), a fictional faster-than-light technology used in the Alliance-Union universe
- Jump, an Israeli clothing/fashion company.
- Jump!, a 1987 computer game for Commodore 64 by Loadstar
- Jump, a term in some blog entries ("More after the jump"), indicating a break (usually an advertisement), with the text continued below it
- Jumps is a frog from Beanie Babies 2.0
- Jump, A game made by 2SoulDesign for the iRiver
- Jump drive, one of the speculative inventions in science fiction, a method of traveling faster than light
- JumpDrive, a common name for a USB flash drive
- Russel Jump, American politician
- JUMP - Java Metamodel Protocol, a metadata language for profiling data
- an obstacle in steeplechase, point to point, or hunter hack horse racing
Music
Jump is also the name of several songs and/or album:- Jump, a genre in electronic music. Originates from Belgium.
- Jump Records, a record label
- Jump blues, a musical genre
- Jump, Little Children, a band that has at various times gone by the name of "Jump"
- Jump! is a 1984 album by Van Dyke Parks
- "Jump (for My Love)", a Pointer Sisters song (later covered by the group Girls Aloud)
- "Jump (Van Halen song)"
- "Jump (Kris Kross song)"
- "Jump", A song by The Movement
- "Jump", A song by N.E.R.D
- "Jump", A song by Bodyrox
- "Jump (Simple Plan song)"
- "Jump (Every Little Thing single)"
- "Jump (Madonna song)"
- "Jump (The Faders song)"
- "Jump 1 (Penicillin song)"
- "Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
- "Jump" is a 2000 song by the electronic group Mephisto Odyssey
jump in German: Jump
jump in Spanish: Jump
jump in Dutch: Jump
jump in Japanese: ジャンプ
jump in Polish: Jump
jump in Swedish: Jump
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Highland fling, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, accept, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advantage, aggrandizement, airlift, amble, ambush, amplification, anabasis, and jump, appreciation, ascension, ascent, assail, assault, attack, augmentation, avoid, bail out, ballooning, barge, barricade, be startled, beat a
retreat, blitz, bloating, bob, bobble, boggle, bolt, boom, boost, bounce, bound, bowl along, breach, break, break away, break jail,
break loose, broad jump, broadening, buck, buckjump, buildup, bulge, bump, bundle, bushwhack, bypass, caesura, caper, capriole, catch, catch at, cavort, chatter, clamber, clear, clear out, clearance, climb, climbing, clop, clump, coign of vantage, come at,
come down on, crack down on, crescendo, curvet, cut, cut and run, cut loose,
decamp, demivolt, depart, descend on, descend upon,
desert, desire, development, didder, discontinuity, disregard, distance between,
double space, drag, draw
first blood, drop, edema, edge, elevation, elope, em space, en space,
enlargement,
escalade, escalate, escalation, escape, escape prison, evade, expansion, extension, fall on, fall upon,
falter, fasten upon,
fence, fight shy, flee, flight, flinch, flood, flounce, fly, fly the coop, flying jump,
flying start, foot,
footfall, footslog, footstep, fountain, freeboard, fugitate, gain, galliard, gambol, gang up on, gap, gelandesprung, get away,
get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, gloss over, go AWOL,
go at, go for, goldbrick, goof off, grab, grab at, grand jete, greatening, growth, gush, gyring up, hair space, half
space, halt, handspring, harry, have an ague, have at, head
start, hiatus, high jump,
hike, hippety-hop, hit, hit like lightning, hitch, hobble, hole, hoofbeat, hop, hurdle, hustle, ignore, increase, increment, inflation, inside track,
interim, intermediate
space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jack up, jactitate, jar, jerk, jet, jete, jib, jig, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump a mile, jump at,
jump bail, jump on, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop,
jump-off, lacuna, land
on, lavolta, lay about
one, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay on, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, leave loose ends, leave
out, leave undone, leeway, let alone, let be, let
dangle, let go, levant,
levitation, light
into, limp, long jump,
lop, lumber, lunge, lurch, make a getaway, make off,
make war on, malinger,
margin, mince, miss, morris, mount, mounting, move, mug, multiplication, negotiate, obstacle, obstruction, odds, omit, overjump, overleap, overlook, overskip, pace, paddle, panic, parachute, pass, pass by, pass over, pass up,
peg, piaffe, piaffer, pitch into, plod, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon,
pound, prance, pretermit, procrastinate, productiveness, proliferation, put up,
quake, quaver, quiver, rack, rail, raise, rebuke, recoil, reprimand, rift, rise, rising, rocketing up, roll, room, run, run away, run away from, run
away with, run for it, run off, running broad jump, running high
jump, running start, sail into, saltation, sashay, saunter, saut de basque,
scramble for, scuff,
scuffle, scuttle, seize on, set on, set
upon, shake, shamble, shirk, shiver, shock, shooting up, show the
heels, shudder, shuffle, shy, sidle, single space, single-foot,
skedaddle, ski jump,
skip, skip out, skip over,
sky-dive, slack, slink, slip the cable, slip the
collar, slither,
slog, slouch, snap at, snatch, snatch at, snowballing, soaring, solo, something extra, something in
reserve, space, space
between, spasm, spout, spread, spring, spring upon, spurt, square up, stagger, stalk, stamp, stampede, start, start aside, start up,
startle, steeplechase, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, stroll, strut, stump, surge, surprise, swagger, swelling, swing, swoop down on, swoop down
upon, take French leave, take flight, take the offensive, take to
flight, take wing, takeoff, taking off, test
flight, time interval, tittup, toddle, totter, tour jete, traipse, tread, tremble, trifle, trip, trudge, tumescence, turn tail,
twitch, twitter, up, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upper hand, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspring, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vantage, vantage ground, vantage
point, vault, vibrate, waddle, wade into, wamble, waxing, whip hand, widening, wiggle, wince, wobble, zooming