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Jumping

noun

1.

The act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump.

2.

The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground. Synonym: jump. "The jumping was unexpected"

Jump

verb

(past & past part. jumped; pres. part. jumping)

1.

Move forward by leaps and bounds. Synonyms: bound, leap, spring. "The child leapt across the puddle" , "Can you jump over the fence?"

2.

Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm. Synonyms: start, startle.

3.

Make a sudden physical attack on.

4.

Increase suddenly and significantly.

5.

Be highly noticeable. Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out.

6.

Enter eagerly into.

7.

Rise in rank or status. Synonyms: climb up, rise.

8.

Jump down from an elevated point. Synonyms: jump off, leap. "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. Synonym: derail.

10.

Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. Synonyms: chute, parachute.

11.

Cause to jump or leap. Synonym: leap.

12.

Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery. Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart.

13.

Bypass. Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over.

14.

Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another. Synonym: leap. "Jump to a conclusion" , "Jump from one thing to another"

15.

Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. Synonym: alternate.

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"Jumping" Quotes from Famous Books

... dismounted, heavily encumbered with a long greatcoat, and a pair of boots which might have rivalled in thickness the sevenfold shield of Ajax. As in this guise he was plodding forth upon his voyage of discovery, Brown's impatience prevailed, and, jumping out of the carriage, he desired the lad to stop where he was, by the horses, and he would himself go to the house—a command which the ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... leeward of the fishing smack, and the boat had about three hundred yards to go. But what a three hundred yards! Great black hills filled up the space and flowed on, leaving room for others equally big and equally black. The sides of these big hills were laced with lines of little jumping hillocks, and over all the loud wind swept, shearing off tearing storm-showers of spray. ...

— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

... evidently having no very exalted opinion of the literary tastes of his family; and he provided Esther with a yellow-back—on which was depicted a lady in a green dress fainting in the arms of a gentleman attired in purple, and Meg with Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog", because he had noticed a certain air of melancholy ...

— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner

... the door and hold it," exclaimed Craig, working rapidly. He unwrapped a little package and took out a round, flat, disc-like thing of black vulcanized rubber. Jumping up on a table, he fixed it to the top of the reflector ...

— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... which we did all the morning, and some of the afternoon. News sent round that we had captured Cronje and 5000 prisoners; all the ships dressed with flags, and whistles blowing; rockets in evening, banging off over my head now, and horses jumping in unison. Shall we be wanted? is the great question. We are packed ready to land ...

— In the Ranks of the C.I.V. • Erskine Childers

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