Improvement vs Jump - What's the difference?
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The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
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, title= The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
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The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
* (Joseph Addison)
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
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
Improvement is a related term of jump.
As nouns the difference between improvement and jump
is that improvement is the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc while jump is the act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound or jump can be a kind of loose jacket for men.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 an adverb jump is
(obsolete) exactly; precisely.As an adjective jump is
(obsolete) exact; matched; fitting; precise.improvement
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* emprovement (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- A good improvement of his reason.
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
- There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.
Synonyms
* improvaljump
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.