Definition of Jump

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Definition of Jump

Jump

A kind of loose jacket for men.

A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.

To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.

To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

To join by a butt weld.

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

To bore with a jumper.

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

The space traversed by a leap.

A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Exactly; pat.

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Jump Quotations

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.
Emo Philips

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Angelina Jolie

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma

Jump Translations

jump in Afrikaans is sprong
jump in Danish is springe, spring
jump in Dutch is springen
jump in Italian is saltellare, saltare, lancio
jump in Latin is tripudio
jump in Norwegian is hoppe, hopp, sprang
jump in Portuguese is salto
jump in Spanish is brinco, salto, brincar, brincar, saltar, puentear

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