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sprint
English
Alternative forms
- sprunt (dialectal)
Etymology
Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijan?, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintan? (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprend?- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint (plural sprints)
- A short race at top speed.
- A burst of speed or activity.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Descendants
Translations
Verb
sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)
- (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
Translations
Anagrams
- prints
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m
- sprint
Related terms
- sprintovat
- sprinter m
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spr?nt/
- Hyphenation: sprint
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)
- sprint
Derived terms
- eindsprint
- massasprint
- sprinten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?int/
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- sprint, short top-speed race.
Further reading
- “sprint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m (invariable)
- sprint (short, fast race)
- vivacity, brio
sprint f (invariable)
- A motor car having strong acceleration
Romanian
Etymology
From French sprint.
Noun
sprint n (plural sprinturi)
- sprint
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
spr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- sprint
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?p?int/, [es?p??n?t?]
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- Alternative spelling of esprint
Further reading
- “sprint” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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jump
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: j?mp, IPA(key): /d??mp/, [d???mp]
- Rhymes: -?mp
Etymology 1
From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempan?, *gemban? (“to hop, skip, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??emb- (“to spring, hop, jump”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Related to jumble.
Verb
jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
- From the motion picture The Big Chill.
- Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.
Synonyms
- (propel oneself upwards): leap, spring
- (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall): jump down, jump off
- (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location): skydive
- (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently): flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch
- (move to a position in a queue/line): skip
- (attack suddenly and violently): ambush, assail; see also Thesaurus:attack
- (engage in sexual intercourse): hump, jump someone's bones; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (bore with a jumper): see also Thesaurus:make a hole
- (make one's escape): beat it, rabbit, take off; see also Thesaurus:flee
Derived terms
See also jumped, jamp, jumper and jumping
Related terms
Translations
Noun
jump (plural jumps)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- To advance by jumps.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- (hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- 1950, Billboard (23 December 1950, page 36)
- Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.
- 1950, Billboard (23 December 1950, page 36)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:jump.
Synonyms
- (instance of propelling oneself into the air): leap
- (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location):
- (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location):
- (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body): flinch, jerk, twitch
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
jump (not comparable)
- (obsolete) exactly; precisely
Synonyms
- accurately, just, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly
Adjective
jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)
- (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
- jump names
- 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan
Etymology 2
Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.
Noun
jump (plural jumps)
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
Related terms
- jumper
- jumps
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