A Quick and Simple Dictionary

jump

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
2. Verb.  (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
4. Verb.  (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
5. Verb.  (intransitive) 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.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To force to jump.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
11. Verb.  (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
12. Noun.  An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
13. Noun.  An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
14. Noun.  An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
15. Noun.  An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
16. Noun.  A jumping move in a board game.
17. Noun.  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).
18. Noun.  (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
19. Noun.  (context, with ''on'') An early start or an advantage.
20. Noun.  (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
21. Noun.  (science fiction) A faster-than-light travel, not observable from the ordinary space.
22. Adverb.  (obsolete) exactly; precisely.