noun
- A sudden and decisive increase.
- usage: "a jump in attendance"
- synonyms: leap
- An abrupt transition.
- usage: "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
- Film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another. (
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- usage: "he awoke with a start"
- Descent with a parachute.
- usage: "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
- synonyms: parachuting
- The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground.
- usage: "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"
- synonyms: jumping
verb
- Move forward by leaps and bounds.
- usage: "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence"
- Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.
- usage: "She startled when I walked into the room"
- Make a sudden physical attack on.
- usage: "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
- Increase suddenly and significantly.
- usage: "Prices jumped overnight"
- Be highly noticeable.
- Enter eagerly into.
- usage: "He jumped into the game"
- Rise in rank or status.
- usage: "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
- Jump down from an elevated point.
- usage: "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
- Run off or leave the rails.
- usage: "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
- synonyms: derail
- Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute.
- Cause to jump or leap.
- usage: "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
- synonyms: leap
- Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery.
- synonyms: jumpstart, jump-start
- Bypass.
- usage: "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
- Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another.
- usage: "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
- synonyms: leap
- Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.
- synonyms: alternate
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