Battle vs Jump - What's the difference?
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Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Fertile; fruitful.
To nourish; feed.
To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
A struggle; a contest.
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*(rfdate) (Henry Morley) (1822-1894):
*:The whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day.
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*:In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages—with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
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*:Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
A division of an army; a battalion.
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*:THenne kyng Arthur made redy his hoost in x batails' and Nero was redy in the felde afore the castel Tarabil with a grete hoost / & he had x ' batails with many mo peple than Arthur had
*(rfdate) (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626):
*:The king divided his army into three battles .
*(rfdate) (1721-1793):
*:The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle , and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 634:
*:‘I will have more than twelve thousand men. I mean to divide them into three battles and start up the causeway a half-day apart.’
(label) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
:(Hayward)
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To assail in battle; to fight or struggle.
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
* Shakespeare
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 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.
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.
(cycling) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
(obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
* Shakespeare
(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with .
* Shakespeare
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
* John Locke
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
* Shakespeare
(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
(architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
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).
(sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An early start or an advantage.
(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
(obsolete) exactly; precisely
* Marcellus, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65
A kind of loose jacket for men.
(in plural) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
1000 English basic words
As a proper noun battle
is from places in england that have been sites of a battle.As a verb jump is
to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.As a noun jump is
the act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound or jump can be a kind of loose jacket for men.As an adverb jump is
(obsolete) exactly; precisely.As an adjective jump is
(obsolete) exact; matched; fitting; precise.battle
English
Etymology 1
From Early Modern English .Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- battle''' grass'', '''''battle pasture
- battle''' soil'', '''''battle land
Derived terms
*Verb
(battl)Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from ). Displaced native (etyl) .Alternative forms
* batailNoun
(en noun)Clive James 'near the end' in cancer 'battle , ITV News, 21 June 2012:
Synonyms
* conflict * encounter * contest * actionDerived terms
* battlearray * battlefield * battleground / battle ground * battle of the sexes * battle piece * battle royal * battle song * do battle * drawn battle * fight a losing battle * give battle * join battle * pitched battle * wager of battleVerb
(battl)- She has been battling against cancer for years .
- She has been battling cancer for years .
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* *jump
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) {{m, ine-pro, *g??emb-, , to spring, hop, jump}}. Cognate with (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
(en verb)- The boy jumped over a fence.
- Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
- Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
- She is going to jump from the diving board.
- to jump a stream
- The sudden sharp sound made me jump .
- The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
- I hate it when people jump the queue.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
- to jump a body with a dangerous physic
- It jumps with my humour.
Synonyms
* (propel oneself upwards) leap, spring * (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall) jump down, jump off * (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location) skydive * (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently) flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch * (To engage in sexual intercourse) hump, jump someone's bonesDerived terms
* jumped-up * jumper * jumpily * jumpy * jump about * jump around * jump at * jump down * jump down someone's throat * jump for joy * jump in * jump in one's skin * jump leads * jump off * jump on * jump out * jump out at * jump up * jump out of one's skin * jump rope * jump seat * jump ship * jump shot * jump-start * jump suit * jump the gun * jump the shark See also'' jumped''', '''jumper''' ''and'' ' jumpingNoun
(en noun)- To advance by jumps .
- Our fortune lies / Upon this jump .
- The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
- There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
- She was terrified before the jump , but was thrilled to be skydiving.
- the knight's jump in chess
- Press jump to start.
- Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
- He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.
- Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "jump")Synonyms
* (instance of propelling oneself into the air) leap * (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location) * (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location) * (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body) flinch, jerk, twitchDerived terms
* high jump * * * jump drive * jump jet * jump rope * long jump * triple jump * Walleye jumpAdverb
(-)- Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
- With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.