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.

Verb

(en-verb)

To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

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(label) To divide; to separate.

# To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride .

# (label) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out .

To test, to work out.

# To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

# To put to test.

#*

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#* 1922 , , Miss Mapp , :

“So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

# To taste, sample, etc.

# To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Let the end try the man.

# To put on trial.

#* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

To experiment, to strive.

# To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.

(Milton)

# To work on something.

# (label) To do; to fare.

# To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried .

(label) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests.