jump
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
Inflected forms:
form: jumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: jumpest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: jumpedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: jumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jumpeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: jump
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: jumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The boy jumped over a fence.
Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
Parkour – often referred to as freerunning – entails creatively moving through an urban environment: flipping, jumping and vaulting across various obstacles.
gloss: To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She is going to jump from the diving board.
gloss: To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to jump a stream
gloss: To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To jerk the body involuntarily in response to a sudden or unexpected stimulus.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That balloon popping made me jump.
He jumped when he looked up to see a man standing before him.
gloss: To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
gloss: To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I hate it when people jump the queue.
gloss: To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attack suddenly and violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
gloss: To cause to jump.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
gloss: To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to jump a body with a dangerous physic
gloss: To join by a buttweld.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
pos: verb
gloss: To bore with a jumper.
pos: verb
gloss: To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
pos: verb
examples: [Someone] and Mr. Benfield were at the corner of Elm and Walton Streets when they were approached by Mr. Gray, who asked for help to jump his car. When informed they did not have jumper cables, Mr. Gray asked them to take him to get some.
[…] his wife, who was at home with their children, would drive to school to jump his car; both would drive home;[…]
gloss: To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: It jumps with my humour.
The fortune of the dice jumpeth not commonly with the fortune of war.
gloss: To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When this section is completed, the code generally jumps back to the Exit Section, and the procedure is closed.
gloss: To flee; to make one's escape.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
slang
examples: “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
gloss: To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The administration is jumping back from that message.
Think hard before you jump towards a particular solution.
gloss: To switch locations on chromosomes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To commit suicide.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
Synonyms: assail
jump someone's bones
rabbit
take off
Derived words: ask how high when someone says jump
bump and jump
go jump in the lake
go jump off a bridge
go jump off a building
go jump off a cliff
Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
Johnny-jump-up
jumpable
jump about
jump a claim
jump all over
jump and dump
jump and run
jump around
jump at
jumpathon
jump at one's own shadow
jump at the chance
jump at the opportunity
jump bail
jump before one is pushed
jump claims
jump cushion
jump-cut
jump down
jump down someone's throat
jumped-up
jumper
jump for joy
jumpform
jumpily
jump in
jumping Judas
jump in one's skin
jump into action
jump in with both feet
jump leads
jump off
jump on
jump one's bail
jump on someone's bones
jump on the bandwagon
jump on the boat
jump onto
jump out
jump out at
jump out of one's skin
jump queue
jump salty
jump seat
jump ship
jump shot
Jumpsole
jump-start
jump suit
jump the dock
jump the gun
jump the lights
jump the line
jump the queue
jump the rattler
jump the reservation
jump the shark
jump through hoops
jump to
jump to conclusions
jump to it
jump trainer
jump up
jump up behind
jump upon
jumpy
outjump
overjump
pump and jump
queue-jump
rejump
which way the cat jumps
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
vertical jump
wait for the cat to jump
jump rope
Sargent Jump
spamjump
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