different between leaper vs jumper

English

Etymology

From Middle English lepere, lepare, from Old English hl?apere (“runner, leaper, dancer, courier, vagrant”), equivalent to leap +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Lööper (“runner”), West Frisian ljepper (“leaper”), West Frisian loper (“runner”), Dutch loper (“runner”), German Läufer (“runner”), Swedish löpare (“runner”), Icelandic hlaupari (“runner”).

Noun

leaper (plural leapers)

1. One who leaps.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, New York: Avon, Chapter 39, p. 299,^[1]

     […] I read in the Bulletin about some mad joker breaking into the little kangaroo and koala zoo in the suburbs and slaughtering seven adult leapers and three joeys.

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 6, p. 271,^[2]

     In the winter—God knows why!—he liked basketball […] He played only in pickup games, to be sure—he could never have played on any of the teams—but he played with enthusiasm; he was quite a leaper, he had a jump shot that elevated him almost to eye level with the other players […]

2. A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
3. (chess) A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
4. Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”)
5. A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.
   • 2003, Julietta Appleton, Clothing Optional: Sassy Essays from My First 50 Years (page 2)

     I'm sick of getting coloring books and dollies for my birthdays, and other leapers are just as exasperated by their juvenile gifts. Another question we always get is, “When do you celebrate your birthday?” On February 29th, of course.

Derived terms

• landleaper

Anagrams

• Lapeer, repeal

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)