Meaning of jump | Babel Free

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1. To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne
2. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
3. A surname.
4. A kind of loose jacket for men.
5. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward
6. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
7. To be readily noticed: The misspellings jumped out at me.
8. To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap
9. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
10. To fail to appear in court after having been released on bail.
11. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location
12. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
13. To have sexual intercourse with someone.
14. To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently
15. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
16. To start doing something too soon.
17. An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
18. To undergo a sustained decline in quality or popularity.
19. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
20. To make extraordinary efforts, especially in following a prescribed procedure.
21. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
22. nervous; easily upset. He has been very jumpy and irritable lately. senuweeagtig, skrikkerig عَصَبي، مُتَهَيِّج الأعْصاب неспокоен nervoso nervózní nervös nervøs νευρικόςnervioso närviline عصبی hermostunut nerveuxלחוץ आसानी से परेशान होने वाला nervozan ideges mudah terkejut uppstökkur; taugaveiklaður nervoso 神経質な 흥분하기 쉬운 nervingas, krūpčiojantis nervozs; satraukts gementar zenuwachtigskvetten, nervøsnerwowy ترتله وتلى، غصبى nervoso nervos нервный nervózny, podráždený živčen nervozan gripa, na...
23. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
24. to take or accept eagerly. He jumped at the chance to go to Germany for a fortnight. iets gretig aanneem, iets aangryp يُسارِعُ في إنتِهاز الفُرْصَه приемам с готовност atirar-se a skočit na sich stürzen auf gribe δέχομαι πρόθυμα, αρπάζω την ευκαιρία aceptar sin pensarlo kinni haarama با اشتیاق قبول کردن tarttua tilaisuuteen sauter לִקפּוֹץ עַל तुरन्त मान लेना या स्वीकार कर लेना zdušno prihvatiti két kézzel kap vmin menerima seketika gleypa við cogliere al volo 飛びつく 쾌히 응하다 griebtis ar prieku ...
25. A jumping move in a board game.
26. to show great pleasure. van vreugde opspring يطيرُ فَرَحاً скачам от радост pular de alegria skákat radostí vor Freude an die Decke springen hoppe af glæde πηδώ από τη χαρά μου saltar de alegría rõõmust hüppama از خوشی ورجه وورجه کردن hyppiä onnesta sauter de joie לִקפּוֹץ מְשִׂמחָה खुशी प्रदर्शित करने के लिए कूदना skakati od veselja örömében majd kiugrik a bőréből gembira hoppa af gleði esultare 大喜びする 기뻐 날뛰다 pašokti iš džiaugsmo aiz prieka lēkāt meloncat kegembiraan dansen van vreugde være h...
27. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
28. to make a sudden attack on. He was waiting round the corner and jumped on me in the dark. opspring, skrikmaak, bestyg يُهاجِم فَجْأةً нахвърлям се saltar em skočit na sich stürzen auf falde over ρίχνομαι σε, επιτίθεμαι saltar encima de kallale kargama حمله کردن؛ پریدن به käydä päälle sauter לְהָתקִיף अचानक हमला करना zaskočiti ráugrik menyerang stökkva/ráðast á saltare addosso 飛びかかる 급습하다 šokti ant mesties virsū; uzlēkt mengejutkan te lijf gaan kaste seg over, overfallerzucić się برید کول salta...
29. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
30. An early start or an advantage.
    with-on
31. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
32. An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
33. Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
    slang
34. An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
35. A change of the path of execution to a different location.
36. Ellipsis of jump-start.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
37. Clipping of jump cut.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
38. Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).

Equivalents

Examples

“To advance by jumps.”

“Our fortune lies / Upon this jump.”

“The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.”

“The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.”

“There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.”

“She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.”

“the knight's jump in chess”

“Press jump to start.”

“Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.”

“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.”

“the number of serious offences in England and Wales involving a knife or sharp object recorded in the year ending March 2024 was 54 percent higher – a jump of nearly 22,000 cases – than the figure for 2016.”

“My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?”

“Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.”

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