different between jumper vs onesie

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

jump +? -er

Noun

jumper (plural jumpers)

1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
   • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

     Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

   • 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits

     With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.

3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
4. (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
5. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
6. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
   • 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

     a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego

7. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider
8. The larva of the cheese fly.
9. (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
10. (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
11. (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
12. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

Derived terms

• BASE jumper, high-jumper, long-jumper, triple-jumper

Translations

Verb

jumper (third-person singular simple present jumpers, present participle jumpering, simple past and past participle jumpered)

1. To connect with an electrical jumper.

Etymology 2

From the term jump (“short coat”) in sailors' jargon, probably from Scots English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Old French, from Arabic ??????? (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with German Joppe.

Noun

jumper (plural jumpers)

1. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A woolen sweater or pullover.
2. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
3. A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
4. (usually as jumpers) Rompers.

Descendants

• ? Estonian: džemper
• ? Finnish: jumpperi
• ? Georgian: ?????? (?em?ri)
• ? German: Jumper
• ? Hungarian: dzsömper
• ? Japanese: ????? (janp?)
• ? Macedonian: ?????? (džemper)
• ? Maltese: ?amper
• ? Portuguese: jumper
• ? Russian: ??????? (džemper)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????? (jempir)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: džemper

• ? Spanish: chompa, chomba
• ? Walloon: siwmper

Translations

Anagrams

• rejump

Portuguese

Noun

jumper m (plural jumpers)

1. jumper (short length of electrical conductor)

English

Etymology

From the Gerber Childrenswear brand name Onesies. The name became generic and was reinterpreted as a plural, hence the new singular and decapitalized "onesie".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?n.zi/
• Hyphenation: one?sie

Noun

onesie (plural onesies)

1. Name given to a number of one-piece attires
   1. (US) A one-piece garment for an infant or small child, generally worn over a diaper.
   2. One-piece adult loungewear jumpsuit.
   3. One-piece fashionable streetwear worn mostly by teenagers.

Synonyms

• (a one-piece baby garment): romper, romper suit

Translations

Anagrams

• eosine