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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?