jumps

1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
3. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

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

6. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

   He went off a jump.

7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

   There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.

8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

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

9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
10. A jumping move in a board game.

    the knight's jump in chess

11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

    Press jump to start.

12. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

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

13. (with on) An early start or an advantage.

    He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.

14. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15. An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
16. A change of the path of execution to a different location.
17. Short for jump-start.

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

1. To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

   Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.

2. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

   She is going to jump from the diving board.

3. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

   to jump a stream

4. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
5. To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

   The sudden sharp sound made me jump.

6. To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

   Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.

7. 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.

8. To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.

   I hate it when people jump the queue.

9. To attack suddenly and violently.

   The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

10. To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
11. To cause to jump.

    The rider jumped the horse over the fence.

12. To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
13. To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
14. To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
15. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
16. (smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
17. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
18. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
19. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
20. To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
21. To flee; to make one's escape.

noun

A kind of loose jacket for men.

noun

A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

1. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
2. A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
3. Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.