different between jumper vs pullover

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 verb phrase pull over.

Noun

pullover (plural pullovers)

1. A sweater that must be put on by pulling it over the head; a sweater without buttons or a zipper in front
2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed lying on the back in which the arms are extended behind the head and exertion lifts the weight above the head.
3. (gymnastics, horizontal bar) An exercise in which the gymnast pulls up from a hang lifting the legs up and over the bar thus rolling into a support position.
4. (chiefly law enforcement) An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.
   • 2010, D. E. Gray, The Warrior in Me (page 23)

     I followed my training in the academy regarding vehicle pullovers.

Descendants

Translations

See also

• cardigan
• jumper
• pushover
• sweater
• sweatshirt

Anagrams

• overpull

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pullover.

Noun

pullover m (invariable)

1. pullover, sweater