Word Finder - jump

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The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

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An effort; an attempt; a venture.

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A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

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

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An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

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

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An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

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He went off a jump.

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

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There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.

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

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

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

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A jumping move in a board game.

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the knight's jump in chess

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

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Press jump to start.

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An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

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Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.

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(with on) An early start or an advantage.

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He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.

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A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

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An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

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A change of the path of execution to a different location.

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Short for jump-start.

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My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?

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To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

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Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.

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To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

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She is going to jump from the diving board.

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To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

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to jump a stream

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To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

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To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

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The sudden sharp sound made me jump.

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To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

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Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.

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To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

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The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.

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To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.

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I hate it when people jump the queue.

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To attack suddenly and violently.

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The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

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To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

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To cause to jump.

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The rider jumped the horse over the fence.

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To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

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To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.

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To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

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To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

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(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.

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To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

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(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.

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To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

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To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

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To flee; to make one's escape.

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Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

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Exactly; precisely

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An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.

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A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.

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• pump and dump
• wham, bam, thank you ma'am

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Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

Bison can jump six feet high.

It could jump up and charge you.

Don't jump to conclusions.

I jump at any excuse to visit the high country.

If you liked, we would run and jump and hop and dance, and be very happy.

The nurse raised an eyebrow but didn't jump at his sharp tone.

Jump on the vehicle and tap B -- he gets thrown out!

It wouldn't take more than a few minutes in this heat before she would be ready to jump back into the water.

The grating iron door made him jump.

Whatever. Just think it over and don't jump into something you might live to regret.

Sheriff Weller or the police chief would jump all over you.

The two of them can walk you through the shadow world and you can jump through the portal.

Give me a scintilla of evidence, and I am ready to jump at them.

He paused at the door and mimed a jump shot at an imaginary hoop.

Shaking with fear for Brady, she watched them cut through the skin grafts and transfuse blood then jump his heart.

Hannah Sergeant gained personal bests in the long jump and shot to finish eighth with 1,701 points.

And there were new personal bests for Beesley, Nick Crawford (60m and triple jump ), Langowski, Jones and Pierpoint.

Gripping the door handle as if she intended to jump out, she stared out the window.

He needed assurance before he tried to jump the fence.

Rhyn's mate squealed loud enough for Deidre to jump.

The couple is now instructed to jump the broomstick.

Forward going but not fast or slow, have controllable walk, trot, canter and gallop and have confidence giving jump.

To date, there are no cathedral clergy willing to jump.

And skeptics then make the logically fallacious jump of concluding that the biblical record is indefensible!

Alison Lavery won high jump with 1.57m and 400m in 61.9.

By pressing the space bar, you can make Sonic jump.

You must either jump overboard into the sea or be slain with your own sword.

Kitchen design ideas can inspire you to create your dream kitchen and jump start a kitchen renovation project.

Sometimes there's another area for you to jump into along with the straightaway traffic you can destroy, so it is vital to pay attention to the introduction scene right before the event that shows you what's going on.

But in the long run, the unoriginal gimmick of having monsters routinely jump out from every suspicious dark corner is used so often that the tension eventually wears off and it all becomes nothing more than a nuisance.

There is no jump button; you simply push up on the directional pad and up you go.

The actual steps are done well and don't seem impossible (unless you jump from Beginner to Heavy without thinking about the consequences).

Since the 2001 release of Peter Molyneux's PC hit, Black & White, the gaming community has waited with bated breath to see what revolutionary steps he would take with his jump to console gaming.

Let's not jump into this thing – this divorce.

What did he want her to do, jump into bed with him?

Let's not jump into this thing – this divorce.

I took a picture of the youngest beagle, who loves to jump on people to be petted.

Jump on women, and ride through shops on a motor bicycle, and no-one could stop us because we were a cow.

If you want to learn a little more about interior design in Raleigh -- or anywhere for that matter -- before you jump in, then you should contact ASID, also known as the American Society of Interior Designers.

Jump off the platform, hovering as close to the wall as possible.

Just jump into your favorite search engine and enter the name of the game followed by "guide" or "walkthrough."

While games have had their ratings changed after release before, this is the first time a game has made the jump from Mature to Adults Only.

In similar regard, you can train yourself to run faster, jump over walls that stood in your way at first, and yes, you can even "gat bitches" with a heavier vengeance than ever before.

Missiles are coming from all over the place, every ship known to man is firing lasers at you and no matter where you jump or where to strafe to or how fast you fly around, everything seems to be aimed at you.

Single long words are great, but if one of the best Literati strategies is to create multiple words in the process of making one word, you should jump at the chance.

You can jump right into a game with the Play Now mode (essentially an exhibition game) with basic team stats and player attributes.

The amount of Madden 10 game modes in the newest game continues to support gamers that just want to jump in a play an occasional game, as well as the gamer who wants to rule the gridiron by controlling everything.

This trick is similar to the laying jump but is performed from the sitting position.

If you want to jump in the fishing action and not worry about rankings or prizes, then pick up an arcade type game where the realism isn't top priority.

Learning how far Mario can jump, what bricks and coins do and what can be done with turtle shells is all a part of the game.