jump /dʒʌmp/
1. a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"
2. an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
3. (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
synset: jump
4. a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"
5. descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
synset: jump, parachuting
6. the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"
1. move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
synset: jump, leap, bound, spring
2. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"
3. make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
synset: jump
4. increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"
synset: jump
5. be highly noticeable
synset: leap_out, jump_out, jump, stand_out, stick_out
6. enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"
synset: jump
7. rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
8. jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
9. run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
10. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
synset: chute, parachute, jump
11. cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
12. start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
synset: jumpstart, jump-start, jump
13. bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
synset: jump, pass_over, skip, skip_over
14. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
15. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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