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.
Definitions
- noun. A kind of loose jacket for men.
- noun. A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
- intransitive verb. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
- transitive verb. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
- transitive verb. To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
- transitive verb. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- transitive verb. To join by a butt weld.
- transitive verb. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- transitive verb. To bore with a jumper.
- noun. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- noun. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- noun. The space traversed by a leap.
- noun. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- noun. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- adjective. Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- adverb. Exactly; pat.
- noun. the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
"he advanced in a series of jumps"
"the jumping was unexpected"
- noun. descent with a parachute
"he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
- noun. a sudden involuntary movement
"he awoke with a start"
- noun. (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- noun. an abrupt transition
"a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
- noun. a sudden and decisive increase
"a jump in attendance"
- verb. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- verb. rise in rank or status
"Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
- verb. increase suddenly and significantly
"Prices jumped overnight"
- verb. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
"leap into fame"
"jump to a conclusion"
- verb. bypass
"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
- verb. enter eagerly into
"He jumped into the game"
- verb. make a sudden physical attack on
"The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
- verb. start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- verb. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
"She startled when I walked into the room"
- verb. move forward by leaps and bounds
"The horse bounded across the meadow"
"The child leapt across the puddle"
- verb. cause to jump or leap
"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
- verb. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- verb. run off or leave the rails
"the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
- verb. jump down from an elevated point
"the parachutist didn't want to jump"
"every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"
- verb. be highly noticeable
Synonyms
jumping, parachuting, start, startle, leap, saltation, alternate, rise, skip, jumpstart, bound, spring, chute, parachute, derail
Common word forms
jumps, jumped, jumper, jumping, jumpable, jumpness
Words from these letters
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