Dictionary Entry
jump
jump is a 4-letter English word with 39 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of loose jacket for men. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 39 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A kind of loose jacket for men.
- 2noun
A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
- 3intransitive verb
To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
- 4intransitive verb
To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
- 5intransitive verb
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
- 6transitive verb
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
- 8transitive verb
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- 9transitive verb
To join by a butt weld.
- 10transitive verb
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- 11transitive verb
To bore with a jumper.
- 12noun
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- 13noun
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- 14noun
The space traversed by a leap.
- 15noun
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- 16noun
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- 17adjective
Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- 18adverb
Exactly; pat.
- 19noun
the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
"he advanced in a series of jumps"
"the jumping was unexpected"
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- 20noun
descent with a parachute
"he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
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- 21noun
a sudden involuntary movement
"he awoke with a start"
- 22noun
(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- 23noun
an abrupt transition
"a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
- 24noun
a sudden and decisive increase
"a jump in attendance"
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- 25verb
go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
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- 26verb
rise in rank or status
"Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
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- 27verb
increase suddenly and significantly
"Prices jumped overnight"
- 28verb
pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
"leap into fame"
"jump to a conclusion"
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- 29verb
bypass
"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
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- 30verb
enter eagerly into
"He jumped into the game"
- 31verb
make a sudden physical attack on
"The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
- 32verb
start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- 33verb
move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
"She startled when I walked into the room"
- 34verb
move forward by leaps and bounds
"The horse bounded across the meadow"
"The child leapt across the puddle"
- 35verb
cause to jump or leap
"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
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- 36verb
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- 37verb
run off or leave the rails
"the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
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- 38verb
jump down from an elevated point
"the parachutist didn't want to jump"
"every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"
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- 39verb
be highly noticeable
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