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jump
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)
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (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.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (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.
- Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- (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.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (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)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- To advance by jumps.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- (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.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (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.
- 1950, Billboard (23 December 1950, page 36)
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)
- (obsolete) exactly; precisely
Synonyms
- accurately, just, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly
Adjective
jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)
- (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
- jump names
- 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
Etymology 2
Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.
Noun
jump (plural jumps)
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
Related terms
- jumper
- jumps
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ski
English
Etymology
From Norwegian ski, related to Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?d? (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English s??d (“stick of wood”) (Modern English shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ski?/
- (UK, rare) IPA(key): /?i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Noun
ski (plural skis)
- One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
- (aviation) One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (suk?)
- ? Korean: ?? (seuki)
- ? Portuguese: esqui
- ? Okinawan: ???
- ? Thai: ??? (sà-gii)
Translations
Verb
ski (third-person singular simple present skis or skies, present participle skiing, simple past and past participle skied)
- (intransitive) To move on skis.
- (transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).
Translations
Anagrams
- KSI
Dutch
Etymology
From Norwegian ski
Pronunciation
Noun
ski m (plural ski's, diminutive skietje n)
- ski
Verb
ski
- first-person singular present indicative of skiën
- imperative of skiën
Derived terms
Anagrams
- sik
French
Etymology
From Norwegian ski.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ski/
Noun
ski m (plural skis)
- (countable) ski
- (uncountable) skiing (sport)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Asturian: esquí
- ? Catalan: esquí
- ? Galician: esquí
- ? Persian: ????? (eski)
- ? Romanian: schi
- ? Spanish: esquí
- ? Basque: eski
- ? Tagalog: eski
Further reading
- “ski” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ksi
Middle English
Noun
ski
- Alternative form of sky
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Norwegian ski.
Noun
ski m
- skiing
References
- “ski” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse skíð (“snowshoe, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?d? (“billet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?/
Noun
ski m or f (definite singular skien or skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skiene or skia)
- ski
Derived terms
Descendants
All are borrowed.
References
- “ski” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse skíð
Noun
ski f (definite singular skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skia or skiene)
- ski
Derived terms
References
- “ski” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
ski m (plural skis)
- Alternative form of esqui
Westrobothnian
Etymology 1
From Old Norse skíð.
Noun
ski n
- The left ski (right is called annar or ander).
Derived terms
- skibein n (“ski”)
- skibain m (“both skis and accessories”)
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic skjár, Faroese skíggi.
Noun
ski f
- Thin membrane between the meat and skin.
See also
- sjyen
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