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1.nounThe act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
2.nounAn effort; an attempt; a venture.
3.nounA dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4.nounAn abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
5.nounAn instance of propelling oneself upwards."The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane."
6.nounAn object which causes one to jump, a ramp."He went off a jump."
7.nounAn instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location."There were a couple of jumps from the bridge."
8.nounAn instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location."She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving."
9.nounAn instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
10.nounA jumping move in a board game."the knight's jump in chess"
11.nounA button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards)."Press jump to start."
12.nounAn obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly."Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second."
13.noun(with on) An early start or an advantage."He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before."
14.nounA discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15.nounAn instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
16.nounA change of the path of execution to a different location.
17.nounShort for jump-start."My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?"
18.verbTo propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne."Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high."
19.verbTo cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward."She is going to jump from the diving board."
20.verbTo pass by a spring or leap; to overleap."to jump a stream"
21.verbTo employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
22.verbTo react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently."The sudden sharp sound made me jump."
23.verbTo increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up."Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits."
24.verbTo 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."The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop."
25.verbTo move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward."I hate it when people jump the queue."
26.verbTo attack suddenly and violently."The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley."
27.verbTo engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
28.verbTo cause to jump."The rider jumped the horse over the fence."
29.verbTo move the distance between two opposing subjects.
30.verbTo increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
31.verbTo increase speed aggressively and without warning.
32.verbTo expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
33.verb(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
34.verbTo thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
35.verb(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
36.verbTo coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
37.verbTo start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
38.verbTo flee; to make one's escape.
39.adjectiveExact; matched; fitting; precise.
40.adverbExactly; precisely
41.nounAn occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
42.nounA single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
43.nounEither of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.