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jumped | rumped |

As a verb jumped

is past tense of jump.

As an adjective rumped is

(in combination) having the specified form of rump.

jumped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (jump)

  • 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

    rumped

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (in combination ) having the specified form of rump
  • Derived terms

    (-Rumped things) * band-rumped swift * barnacle-rumped dragonfly * black-rumped agouti * black-rumped buttontail * black-rumped flameback * black-rumped waxbill * blue-rumped manakin * blue-rumped parrot * blue-rumped bitta * bright-rumped attila * brown-rumped bunting * brown-rumped foliage-gleaner * brown-rumped seedeater * brown-rumped tapaculo * buff-rumped thornbill * buff-rumped warbler * buff-rumped woodpecker * chestnut-rumped babbler * chestnut-rumped heathwren * chestnut-rumped thornbill * chestnut-rumped woodcreeper * cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner * cinnamon-rumped trogon * copper-rumped hummingbird * creamy-rumped miner * crimson-rumped toucanet * crimson-rumped waxbill * dark-rumped swift * dark-rumped rosefinch * flame-rumped sapphire * flame-rumped tanager * golden-rumped elephant shrew * golden-rumped euphonia * golden-rumped flowerpecker * goose-rumped * gray-rumped swift * green-rumped parrotlet * grey-rumped swallow * Indian white-rumped vulture * naked-rumped pouched bat * naked-rumped tomb rat * ochre-rumped antbird * ochre-rumped bunting * olive-rumped serin * opal-rumped tanager * pale-rumped swift * pink-rumped rosefinch * purple-rumped sunbird * red-rumped bush-tyrant * red-rumped cacique * red-rumped myzomela * red-rumped parrot * red-rumped swallow * red-rumped tinkerbird * red-rumped warbling-finch * red-rumped waxtail * red-rumped wheater * red-rumped woodpecker * rufous-rumped antwren * rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner * rufous-rumped grassbird * sapphire-rumped parrotlet * scarlet-rumped cacique * scarlet-rumped trogon * silver-rumped spinetail * sulphur-rumped tanager * tawny-rumped tyrannulet * wedge-rumped storm-petrel * white-rumped babbler * white-rumped cuckoo-shrike * white-rumped falcon * white-rumped hawk * white-rumped kingfisher * white-rumped monjita * white-rumped needletail * white-rumped robin * white-rumped sandpiper * white-rumped seedeater * white-rumped shama * white-rumped snowfinch * white-rumped swallow * white-rumped swift * white-rumped swiftlet * white-rumped tanager * white-rumped triller * yellow-rumped antwren * yellow-rumped cacique * yellow-rumped eremomela * yellow-rumped flowerpecker * yellow-rumped flycatcher * yellow-rumped honeyguide * yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse * yellow-rumped marshbird * yellow-rumped munia * yellow-rumped serin * yellow-rumped siskin * yellow-rumped thornbill * yellow-rumped tinkerbird * yellow-rumped warbler

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