jump

A tap dancer jumping.

Meanings

To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
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.
To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
To attack suddenly and violently.
To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
To cause to jump.
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
To bore with a jumper.
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
To flee; to make one's escape.

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A jumping move in a board game.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An early start or an advantage.
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
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.
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
Short form of jump cut
Synonym of one-night stand
A kind of loose jacket for men.

From Middle English jumpen, probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempaną, *gembaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰemb-. The OED instead suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble.
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen ("to jump"), Low German jumpen ("to jump"), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe ("to jolt"), Swedish gumpa ("to jump"), Danish gimpe ("to move up and down"), Middle English jumpren, jumbren.
Compare French jupe ("a long petticoat, a skirt") and English jupon.

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