different between romper vs jumper

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp?(r)

Etymology 1

romp +? -er

Noun

romper (plural rompers)

1. Someone who romps or frolics.
2. (nautical) A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy; see also straggler.

Etymology 2

Short for romper suit.

Noun

romper (plural rompers)

1. A onesie.

Etymology 3

From Romper Room, name of a children's television series. See romp.

Verb

romper (third-person singular simple present rompers, present participle rompering, simple past and past participle rompered)

1. (Ireland, historical, transitive) To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered.
   • 2003, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English romper, from English romper suit. In folk etymology, the word is linked with Dutch romp (“torso”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?m.p?r/
• Hyphenation: rom?per
• Rhymes: -?mp?r

Noun

romper m (plural rompers, diminutive rompertje n)

1. a one-piece garment for an infant or small child; a onesie or romper
2. an adult loungewear jumpsuit; a onesie or romper

Usage notes

For the baby version, the dimunitive rompertje is often used.

Ladin

Alternative forms

• rompe

Etymology

From Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?.

Verb

romper

1. to break

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese romper, from Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?, from Proto-Italic *rump?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti (“to break”), from the root *Hrewp-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?õ.?pe?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?õ.?pe(?)/
• Hyphenation: rom?per

Verb

romper (first-person singular present indicative rompo, past participle rompido)

1. to break

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:romper.

Related terms

• corromper
• roçar
• roto
• rotura

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish romper, from Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?, from Proto-Italic *rump?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti (“to break”), from the root *Hrewp-. Cognate with French rompre, Italian rompere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rom?pe?/, [rõm?pe?]

Verb

romper (first-person singular present rompo, first-person singular preterite rompí, past participle roto)

1. to break

   Synonyms: despedazar, destrozar, destruir, derribar, derrumbar, arruinar, quebrar

2. to break up, terminate (a relationship, friendship etc.)

3. (with a) to begin to do something

   Synonyms: comenzar, empezar

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Usage notes

• Spanish verb romper does not mean break down, but English verb break having the sense of break down is often mistranslated as romper.

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)