different between jumping vs tombstoning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??mp??/

Adjective

jumping (comparative more jumping, superlative most jumping)

1. (colloquial) Exuberantly active; in full swing.
   • 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

     When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

     And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

Verb

jumping

1. present participle of jump

Noun

jumping (plural jumpings)

1. The act of performing a jump.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)

     When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

Further reading

• jumping on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

French

Etymology

from English jumping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?œ?.pi?/

Noun

jumping m (plural jumpings)

1. show jumping (equestrian discipline)
2. (sports and physical fitness) A form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

tombstone +? -ing.

Noun

tombstoning (uncountable)

1. (Britain) The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.
2. (computing) The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
3. (electronics) An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.
4. (journalism) In page layout, putting articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent. The phenomenon is also referred to as bumping heads.
5. (Southern US) In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.
6. (in digital libraries) The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.
7. (medicine) A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.

Synonyms

• (unwanted effect in which a component stands up on end): tombstone effect, drawbridging, Manhattan effect

Related terms

• tombstone
• tombstoned
• tombstoner

Translations

Verb

tombstoning

1. present participle of tombstone

References