jump
What is the Definition of jump?
Noun:
- a sudden and decisive increase
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
Verb:
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead)
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
How can I use jump in a sentence?
There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump.
The whole crowd was on its feet, watching, terrified, as the Weasleys flew up to try and pull Harry safely onto one of their brooms, but it was no good – every time they got near him, the broom would jump higher still.
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid: He took a great running jump and managed to fasten his arms around the troll's neck from behind.
But all he would tried to do (as he shouted at Uncle Vernon through the locked door of his cupboard) was jump behind the big trash cans outside the kitchen doors.
he called up to the light the size of a postage stamp, which was the open trapdoor, it is a soft landing, you can jump!
Other meanings of jump (synonyms, cognates).
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| jump at |
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| jump instruction |
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| jump table |
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| jumper |
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| jumpsuit |
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| jumpy |
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