jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊmpə/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jumpers
Etymology: From jump + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
examples: text: Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
ref: 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury:
text: 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.
ref: 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits:
glosses: A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
glosses: A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1956 December 24, “New Electric Trains for Mersey Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 852:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte:
glosses: A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
topics: arachnology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A jumping spider.
glosses: The larva of the cheese fly.
glosses: One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
examples: text: [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.
ref: 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune:
glosses: A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
examples: text: This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.
ref: 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 161:
topics: video-games
glosses: A platform game based around jumping.
glosses: Ellipsis of smokejumper.
Derived terms: Aran jumper
baby jumper
baby-jumper
bandwagon jumper
BASE jumper
blade jumper
bonding jumper
border jumper
bounty jumper
buckjumper
bungee jumper
bungy jumper
claim jumper
counterjumper
high-jumper
high jumper
hoop-jumper
hoop jumper
jack jumper
jumper cable
jumperism
jumperless
jumperlike
jumper punch
kite jumper
long jumper
long-jumper
lumpy jumper
puddle jumper
puddle-jumper
queue-jumper
rattler-jumper
rock-jumper
ship-jumper
show jumper
ski jumper
smokejumper
smoke jumper
tree jumper
triple-jumper
triple jumper
waka-jumper