jump

Definitions

• (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) 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) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
• (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) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• (transitive) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• (transitive) 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) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
• (intransitive) To flee; to make one's escape.