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Jump vs Overleap - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between jump and overleap

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 overleap is to pass over; to omit, leave out.

As verbs the difference between jump and overleap

is that jump is to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne while overleap is to leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.

As a noun jump

is the act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

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
    Related terms
    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.
    • 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, 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.
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    overleap

    English

    Verb

  • To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.7:
    • Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
  • To pass over; to omit, leave out.
  • * 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 141:
    • It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.

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