Jumper
Definitions
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- A woollen sweater or pullover.
- A surname.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
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A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore. US
- An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- Rompers.
- A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
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A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. US
- A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
- A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- A platform game based around jumping.
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Ellipsis of smokejumper. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Equivalents
Examples
“Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.”
“With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick⟳ up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.”
“For coupling between the cars of a three-car set⟳ 19 core jumpers are provided for control⟳ and auxiliary train⟳ cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits.”
“a jumper was found prepared to receive⟳ Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego”
“[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play⟳ both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like⟳ Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post⟳. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get⟳ hot on the block⟳.”
“In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place⟳ of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.”
“This is an extremely hard to find⟳ platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.”
“The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame⟳ 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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