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Jumping vs Flying - What's the difference?

jumping | flying |

As adjectives the difference between jumping and flying

is that jumping is excellent, very fun while flying is that can fly.

As verbs the difference between jumping and flying

is that jumping is present participle of lang=en while flying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between jumping and flying

is that jumping is the act of performing a jump while flying is an act of flight.

jumping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (colloquial) excellent, very fun
  • * 1998 ,
  • When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
    And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of performing a jump.
  • * 1871 , John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
  • When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

    flying

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That can fly.
  • (flying fox)
  • Brief or hurried.
  • (flying visit)
  • (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * flyingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flight.
  • * 1993 , John C. Greene, ?Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
  • "Flyings'" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, ' flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds"