to jump

Definition of to jump in English English dictionary: exactly; precisely
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.; To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne
The boy jumped over a fence.; To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward; An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly; An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location; To move the distance between two opposing subjects
It is quite a jump from teenage angst to bee-keeping.; An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body; An instance of propelling oneself upwards; To attack suddenly and violently
The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.; A jumping move in a board game; A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity; To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location; A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to jump (propel itself upwards); To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward; To force to jump
The rider jumped the horse over the fence.; An early start or an advantage
Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.; parachute: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute; jumpstart: start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery; derail: run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"; leap: pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; {n} a leap, skip, kind of stays; {a} exactly; tobi; To transfer control of the computer to an instruction that is not necessarily the next in sequence; the jump may be unconditional (e g to enter a subroutine) or conditional upon the result of a test, and conditional jumps appear as branching on a flowchart The word branch is sometimes used as an alternative; go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions; jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute; If you jump, you bend your knees, push against the ground with your feet, and move quickly upwards into the air. I jumped over the fence I'd jumped seventeen feet six in the long jump, which was a school record Whoever heard of a basketball player who doesn't need to jump? Jump is also a noun. She was taking tiny jumps in her excitement; If you jump something such as a fence, you move quickly up and through the air over or across it. He jumped the first fence beautifully; A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century; To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently; be highly noticeable; enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"; To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with; move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"; A kind of loose jacket for men; Exactly; pat; To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream; An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location; If someone jumps a queue, they move to the front of it and are served or dealt with before it is their turn. The prince refused to jump the queue for treatment at the local hospital; bid at a higher level than the minimum required to be legal; the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected" descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance" increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight" bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game" make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat" move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop; An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry; The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound; An illegal (false) start done by the second, third, or fourth member of a relay team When the swimmer on the block breaks contact with the block before the swimmer in the water touches the wall; descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"; In computer programming, to cause the next instruction to be selected conditionally or unconditionally from a specified storage location; Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise; To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset; To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt; A jump refers to moving from one topic to another via a hypertext linkage; This version of the pick feature is used in some of our children's products It enables users to highlight a word in text and look up that word within the product A different "jumping" animation is displayed each time the user looks up a word; leap: an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"; a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"; It is any obstacle that the horse has to jump over and/or across; (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another; a A form of invocation in which the invoked batch file does not return to the one that invoked it when it terminates; An instruction that causes the computer to fetch the next instruction to be executed from a location other than the next sequential location in memory; Leap into the air off both feet and land on 1 or both feet; What a ball often does from a flier lie That is, it jumps out hot and travels much farther than if struck from a normal lie; The space traversed by a leap; An effort; an attempt; a venture; n Or v Where we now say bunny hop, bmxer's used to say "jump"; to jump on the bandwagon: see bandwagon to jump bail: see bail to jump to a conclusion: see conclusion to jump the gun: see gun to jump for joy: see joy. high jump hydraulic jump jump rope long jump broad jump triple jump hop step and jump; If someone jumps on you, they quickly criticize you if you do something that they do not approve of. A lot of people jumped on me about that, you know. see also bungee jumping, high jump, long jump, queue-jumping, show jumping, triple jump; Any obstacle that the horse has to jump over and/or across; To bore with a jumper; when a ball is struck and "jumps out hot" traveling much faster and farther than would have normally been the case Usually the result of a 'flier' lie; start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery; to bid at a higher level than necessary (1D by partner, 2NT by you) to show strength; run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"