Word Definition

Jump

  1. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  3. A kind of loose jacket for men.
  4. Exactly; pat.
  5. To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
  6. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  7. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  8. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  9. The space traversed by a leap.
  10. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  11. Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
  12. To bore with a jumper.
  13. A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
  14. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
  15. 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.
  16. To join by a butt weld.
  17. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
  18. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.