jumper
Someone or something that jumps, e.gSomeone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
» Tom always keeps a set of jumper cables in the trunk of his car.
Tom hat im Kofferraum seines Wagens immer einen Überbrückungskabelsatz.
Том всегда держит в багажнике своей машины комплект кабелей для «прикуривания».
Meaning
19 sensesSomeone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
Springer, Springerin
прыгу́нprygún, прыгу́ньяprygúnʹja
A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
a person who jumps
A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
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Überbrückungskabel
перемы́чкаperemýčka
a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
Jumper
джа́мперdžámper
A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
(US)A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
(informal)A jumping spider.
an athlete who competes at jumping
The larva of the cheese fly.
A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
(basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
Examples
164 sentencesTom always keeps a set of jumper cables in the trunk of his car.
ruТом всегда держит в багажнике своей машины комплект кабелей для «прикуривания».
deTom hat im Kofferraum seines Wagens immer einen Überbrückungskabelsatz.
Tom is an extraordinary jumper.
Do you have jumper cables?
Where did Tom buy that jumper?
Де Том купив цей светр?
ruГде Том купил этот свитер?
Tom put on a warm jumper.
Том одягнув теплий светр.
ruТом надел тёплый свитер.
Translations
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Origin
From the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of unFrom the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of uncertain origin. Jump is possibly from Scottish English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Middle English juype, gype, joupe, from Old French jupe, juppe, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with Middle Low German jōpe, gōpe (“waistcoat, jacket”), German Joppe (“jacket”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from jump.
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