different between jump vs bob

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?b, IPA^(key): /b?b/
• Rhymes: -?b
• (US) enPR: bäb, IPA^(key): /b?b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Etymology 1

From Middle English bobben (“to strike, beat, shake, jog”), of uncertain origin. Compare Scots bob (“to mark, butt dance with a bobbing motion”), Icelandic boppa (“to wave up and down”), Swedish bobba (“to bob”), Dutch dobberen ("bobbing").

Verb

bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)

1. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.

   The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

   The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.

   The flowers were bobbing in the wind.

2. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

   I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.

   bob one's head (= to nod)

3. To curtsy.
4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
   • 1533, Thomas Elyot, The Book of the Governor

     He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.

Derived terms

• bobber
• bob for apples
• bob up

Translations

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.

   a bob of the head

2. A curtsy.
3. A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
   • 1613, John Dennys, The Secrets of Angling

     Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.

4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. A bob haircut.
2. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

     Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.

3. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
4. The docked tail of a horse.
5. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
6. The short runner of a sled.
7. A bobsleigh.
8. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
9. A working beam in a steam engine.
10. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
12. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
    • 1737, William Shenstone, The Extent of Cookery

      A plain brown bob he wore.

13. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
14. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

Translations

Verb

bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)

1. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

   I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

2. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
3. To bobsleigh.

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Noun

bob (plural bob)

1. (Kenya, slang; Britain and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix

     ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII

     […] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem, [... and] I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them […]

2. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
3. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
   • Spot me a few bob, Robert.

Usage notes

• The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789.
• The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Derived terms

• bob-a-job
• bent as a nine-bob note
• two bob
• two-bob bit

Etymology 4

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5

blitter object

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
   • 1995, "John Girvin", Blitting bobs (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer)

     IMHO, youd ^[sic] be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

   • 2002, "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene. (on Internet newsgroup fm.announce)

     Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...

Derived terms

• shadebob

Anagrams

• obb

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?p/
• Hyphenation: bob
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: Bob

Etymology 1

From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder (“deliberately unintoxicated driver”).

Noun

bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)

1. designated driver

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bob.

Noun

bob f or m (plural bobs)

1. (winter sports) bob, bobsleigh

   Synonym: bobslee

French

Etymology

From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?b/

Noun

bob m (plural bobs)

1. bucket hat, fishing hat

Further reading

• “bob” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bob]
• Hyphenation: bob
• Rhymes: -ob

Noun

bob (plural bobok)

1. bobsleigh
2. a type of sled (a flat-bottomed concave plastic sled with no runners, equipped with brakes)
3. a car used on the track of an alpine slide or bobsled rollercoaster (mountain coaster)

Declension

Synonyms

• szánkó

Derived terms

• bobos

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun 1

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

1. (hair) bob
   1. fringe (of hair over forehead)
   2. bob(tail)

      Synonym: bob eireabaill

Derived terms

Noun 2

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

1. stump, target (in games)

Derived terms

• bob a bhualadh ar dhuine (“to play a trick on someone”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bob" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bob” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bob” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Noun

bob m (invariable)

1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Related terms

• bobbista

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bob?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bob, Polish bób, Czech bob, Russian ??? (bob), Serbo-Croatian b?b.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?p/

Noun

bob m

1. (uncountable) bean plant
2. beanfield

Declension

Derived terms

• bobowka f (“an individual bean seed”)

See also

• tšuka f (“bean pod”)

Further reading

• bob in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• bob in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bobe
• bóbi

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?.bi/

Noun

bob m (plural bobes)

1. curler (small cylindrical tube)
2. hair roller, hair curler

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian b?b.

Noun

bob n (plural boabe)

1. A type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
2. a grain
3. Any seed, pit, stone, berry.

Related terms

• boab?

See also

• s?mân??
• gr?unte

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bobsleigh.

Noun

bob n (plural boburi)

1. bobsleigh

See also

• sanie

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. a bunch, a cluster (of things)
2. (obsolete) a nosegay, bunch of flowers
3. a knot; a bunch of ribbon
4. a patch of rich grass

Verb

bob (third-person singular present bobs, present participle bobbin, past bobbit, past participle bobbit)

1. (of grass) to grow richly in patches

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic expressing quick movement, but compare English bob, above.

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. a dance

Verb

bob (third-person singular present bobs, present participle bobbin, past bobbit, past participle bobbit)

1. to dance with up-and-down movement

   Synonym: bab

Etymology 3

Unknown. Possibly from Middle English bobben (“to strike”) or Old French bober, baubir (“to mock, deride”).

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. a target, a mark to aim at
2. a taunt

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bob?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôb/

Noun

b?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

Declension

Etymology 2

From English bob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôb/

Noun

b?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. bobsled

Declension

Sicilian

Noun

bob m

1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Spanish

Noun

bob m (plural bobs)

1. bob, bob haircut (hairstyle)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?b/

Adjective

bob

1. Soft mutation of pob.

Mutation