What is the meaning of jump?

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"
  • synonyms: leap, saltation
• Film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another. (
• A sudden involuntary movement.
  • usage: "he awoke with a start"
  • synonyms: startle, 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"
  • synonyms: leap, bound, spring
• Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.
  • usage: "She startled when I walked into the room"
  • synonyms: startle, start
• 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.
  • synonyms: leap out, jump out, stand out, stick out
• Enter eagerly into.
  • usage: "He jumped into the game"
• Rise in rank or status.
  • usage: "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
  • synonyms: rise, climb up
• 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"
  • synonyms: leap, jump off
• 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.
  • synonyms: chute, 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"
  • synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over
• 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