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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: j?mp, IPA^(key): /d??mp/, [d???mp]
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempan?, *gemban? (“to hop, skip, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??emb- (“to spring, hop, jump”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Related to jumble.

Verb

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

3. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
5. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

7. (intransitive) 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.

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

9. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

10. (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

    Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
    - From the motion picture The Big Chill.

11. (transitive) To cause to jump.

12. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
13. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
14. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
16. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
17. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
18. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
19. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

20. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
21. (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.

Synonyms

• (propel oneself upwards): leap, spring
• (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall): jump down, jump off
• (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location): skydive
• (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently): flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch
• (move to a position in a queue/line): skip
• (attack suddenly and violently): ambush, assail; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (engage in sexual intercourse): hump, jump someone's bones; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (bore with a jumper): see also Thesaurus:make a hole
• (make one's escape): beat it, rabbit, take off; see also Thesaurus:flee

Derived terms

See also jumped, jamp, jumper and jumping

Related terms

Translations

Noun

jump (plural jumps)

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

   • To advance by jumps.

2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
3. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

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

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

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

9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
10. A jumping move in a board game.

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

12. (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

13. (with on) An early start or an advantage.

14. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15. (hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
16. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
17. (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
18. (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.

19. (film) Clipping of jump cut.
20. (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
    • 1950, Billboard (23 December 1950, page 36)

      Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jump.

Synonyms

• (instance of propelling oneself into the air): leap
• (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location):
• (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location):
• (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body): flinch, jerk, twitch

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

jump (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely

Synonyms

• accurately, just, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Adjective

jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)

1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan

     jump names

Etymology 2

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

Noun

jump (plural jumps)

1. A kind of loose jacket for men.

Related terms

• jumper
• jumps

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li/

Noun

alí f 

1. reptile

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???li]
• Hyphenation: a?li

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?aliyy).

Adjective

ali (comparative daha ali, superlative ?n ali)

1. supreme, higher, high (dominant)

Derived terms

• alilik

Further reading

• “ali” in Obastan.com.

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse hali, from Proto-Germanic *halô.

Noun

ali m (oblique ålå)

1. (anatomy) tail

Derived terms

• ålåbuss
• ålåell
• ålåglinder

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?l?/
• Rhymes: -?a?l?
• Homophones: alið, æli, ælið

Noun

ali n (genitive singular alis, uncountable)

1. quality, property, characteristic, nature (of someone or something)

Declension

Derived terms

• alisfrøði (“physics”)

Verb

ali

1. indicative first-person singular present of at ala
2. optative of at ala

Finnish

(index al)

Etymology

From ala- +? -i. Cognate with Estonian all and Hungarian alatt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li/, [??li]
• Rhymes: -?li
• Syllabification: a?li

Postposition

ali (+ genitive, shorter form for alitse)

1. beneath, underneath (when one goes through the space that is underneath something)

Usage notes

ali never receives a possessive suffix; alitse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (beneath, underneath) alitse

Antonyms

• (beneath, underneath) yli, ylitse

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• ala-
• ali-
• alemmas
• alempana
• alhainen
• alittaa

Gorontalo

Noun

ali

1. a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids; well.

Icelandic

Noun

ali

1. indefinite accusative plural of alur

Italian

Noun

ali f

1. plural of ala

Verb

ali

1. second-person singular present indicative of alare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of alare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of alare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of alare
5. third-person singular imperative of alare

Anagrams

• Lia

Kapampangan

Interjection

ali

1. no

Antonyms

• wa

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji-q, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

Noun

ali

1. younger sibling

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “ali”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Laboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Latin

Verb

al?

1. present passive infinitive of al?

Lavukaleve

Noun

ali m

1. man

Limos Kalinga

Noun

ali

1. king

Middle English

Adjective

ali

1. Alternative form of holy (sacred)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ali

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of al

Verb

ali

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of ala and ale

O'odham

Alternative forms

• 'ali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?i/

Noun

ali (plural a'al)

1. child, baby

Old Norse

Noun

ali

1. indefinite accusative plural of alr

Verb

ali

1. third-person active present subjunctive of ala

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ali, aly, from Latin ad illic.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?li/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.?li/
• Hyphenation: a?li

Adverb

ali (not comparable)

1. there (far from both the speaker and the audience)

   Synonym: lá

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ali.

Usage notes

Usually ali implies a nearer position than lá.

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ali, *ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âli/
• Hyphenation: a?li

Conjunction

?li (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. but
2. however
3. (Croatia) or, if

Synonyms

• (Croatia) ale, nu

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation 1

The second pronunciation is used in the second sense.

• IPA^(key): /áli/, /á?li/

Conjunction

?li or ?li

1. or
2. (ali ... ali) either ... or

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ali/

Particle

ali

1. Introduces a yes-no question.

Further reading

• “ali”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran