English Dictionary

jump

/dʒʌmp/

noun

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. / An effort; an attempt; a venture. / (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

He made a big jump and landed safely.

意味（1）

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

To advance by jumps.

意味（2）

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

Our fortune lies / Upon this jump.

意味（3）

(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.

意味（6）

An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.

The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.

意味（7）

An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.

意味（8）

An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.

意味（9）

An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

意味（10）

A jumping move in a board game.

the knight's jump in chess

意味（11）

A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

Press jump to start.

意味（12）

(sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.

意味（13）

(with on) An early start or an advantage.

He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.

意味（14）

(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

意味（15）

(physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.

意味（16）

(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

意味（17）

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.

意味（18）

(US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.

My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?

意味（19）

(film) Clipping of jump cut.

意味（20）

(theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)

Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.