Jump - Definition

n 1: a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"
[syn: jump, leap]
2: an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the
major leagues" [syn: leap, jump, saltation]
3: (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
4: a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start" [syn:
startle, jump, start]
5: descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting
in the army" [syn: jump, parachuting]
6: the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he
advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"
[syn: jump, jumping]
v 1: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across
the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you
jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound,
spring]
2: move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She
startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle,
jump, start]
3: make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the
woman in the fur coat"
4: increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped
overnight"
5: be highly noticeable [syn: leap out, jump out, jump,
stand out, stick out]
6: enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"
7: rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the
bestseller list" [syn: rise, jump, climb up]
8: jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't
want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the
Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
[syn: jump, leap, jump off]
9: run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow
was standing on the tracks" [syn: derail, jump]
10: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn:
chute, parachute, jump]
11: cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through
the hoop" [syn: jump, leap]
12: start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it
to another car's battery [syn: jumpstart, jump-start,
jump]
13: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence
was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over, skip,
skip over]
14: pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into
fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to
another" [syn: leap, jump]
15: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states
or conditions [syn: alternate, jump]