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In intransitive terms the difference between jump and die

is that jump is 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 while die is to stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

In transitive terms the difference between jump and die

is that jump is to increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it while die is to stop living and undergo (a specified death).

In obsolete terms the difference between jump and die

is that jump is exact; matched; fitting; precise while die is that which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

In architecture terms the difference between jump and die

is that jump is an abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry while die is to disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

As an adverb jump

is exactly; precisely.

As an adjective jump

is exact; matched; fitting; precise.

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)
  • To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
  • The boy jumped over a fence.
    Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
  • To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
  • She is going to jump from the diving board.
  • To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
  • to jump a stream
  • 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.
  • The sudden sharp sound made me jump .
  • 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.
  • The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
  • To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
  • I hate it when people jump the queue.
  • To attack suddenly and violently.
  • The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
  • To engage in sexual intercourse.
  • The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
  • To cause to jump.
  • The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
  • 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
  • to jump a body with a dangerous physic
  • (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
  • 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 bones
    Derived 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'' ' jumping

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  • * John Locke
  • To advance by jumps .
  • An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Our fortune lies / Upon this jump .
  • (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.
  • The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
  • An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
  • There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
  • An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  • She was terrified before the jump , but was thrilled to be skydiving.
  • An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  • A jumping move in a board game.
  • the knight's jump in chess
  • A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
  • Press jump to start.
  • (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
  • Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
  • An early start or an advantage.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • 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, twitch
    Derived terms
    * high jump * * * jump drive * jump jet * jump rope * long jump * triple jump * Walleye jump

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) exactly; precisely
  • * Marcellus, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65
  • Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
    With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • jump names

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) and English jupon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    die

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).

    Verb

  • To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  • #
  • #* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:
  • "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
  • #* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
  • In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
  • #
  • #* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
  • She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
  • #* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
  • "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
  • # :
  • #* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
  • Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
  • #* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
  • Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
  • #
  • #* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
  • Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
  • #* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
  • And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
  • # (still current)
  • She died with dignity.
  • To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
  • He died a hero's death.
    They died a thousand deaths.
  • (figuratively) To yearn intensely.
  • * 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
  • Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
  • * 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
  • I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
  • (idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
  • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
  • (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
  • (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
  • (intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
  • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
  • (intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  • * Spectator
  • letting the secret die within his own breast
  • * Tennyson
  • Great deeds cannot die .
  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • * Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
  • His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  • to die to pleasure or to sin
  • (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
  • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
    Synonyms
    * (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See also
    Derived terms
    * be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die for

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. ยง 46.
  • If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
  • (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
  • (plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  • A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
  • (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  • (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  • (electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  • Any small cubical or square body.
  • * Watts
  • words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
  • (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • * Spenser
  • Such is the die of war.
    Usage notes
    The game of dice is singular. Thus in "Dice is a game played with dice," the first occurrence is singular, the second occurrence is plural. Otherwise, using the plural (m) as a singular instead of (m) is considered incorrect by most authorities, but has come into widespread use.
    Derived terms
    * loaded dice * the die is cast * tool and die * * * * * * * *