Meaning

20 senses
  1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

    the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground

  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.

  3. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

  4. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

  5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

    The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.

    Sprung

    прыжо́кpryžók, скачо́кskačók

    стрибо́кstrybók

  6. An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.

    The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.

  7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

    There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.

    Sprung

    прыжо́кpryžók

    стрибо́кstrybók

  8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

    She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.

    Sprung

    прыжо́кpryžók

  9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

  10. A jumping move in a board game.

    the knight's jump in chess

    прыжо́кpryžók

  11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

    Press jump to start.

  12. An 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.

Examples

1582 sentences
  1. The dog jumped over a chair.

    Собака перестрибнув через стілець. — deniko

    deDer Hund sprang über einen Stuhl. — bonny37

  2. Tom jumped into the swimming pool.

    Том стрибнув до басейну. — deniko

    deTom sprang ins Schwimmbecken. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom jumped out of his bed.

    Том вискочив з ліжка. — deniko

  4. Tom wasn't jumping on the bed.

    Том не стрибав на ліжку. — rmdas

    ruТом не прыгал на кровати. — marafon

    deTom ist nicht auf dem Bett gehüpft. — brauchinet

  5. Tom tried to stop Mary from jumping.

    Том спробував втримати Мері від стрибку. — deniko

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap:
Русский
By meaning 1
instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap:

Origin

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German o

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.

Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.

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Forms

plural: jumps
Singularjump
Pluraljumps

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
instance of propelling oneself into the air:leapB2
instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body:twitchC1flinchjerk
Close in meaning

Word family

73 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • jumped into the
  • jumped out of
  • jump to conclusions
  • jumped over the
  • jumped off the
  • try bungee jumping
  • to jump into
  • bungee jumping
  • jumping rope
  • jumped on the
  • jumped up and
  • to jump off

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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