Jumping vs Plunging - What's the difference?
jumping | plunging |
(colloquial) excellent, very fun
* 1998 ,
The act of performing a jump.
* 1871 , John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Herman Melville, title=Moby Dick; or The Whale, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings , accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment. }}
As verbs the difference between jumping and plunging
is that jumping is while plunging is .As nouns the difference between jumping and plunging
is that jumping is the act of performing a jump while plunging is an occurrence in which something or someone plunges.As an adjective jumping
is (colloquial) excellent, very fun.jumping
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Adjective
(en adjective)- When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
- And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.
plunging
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