Spike vs Jump - What's the difference?
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An ear of corn or grain.
# (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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Something pointed or sharp.
# A sort of very large nail; anything resembling such a nail in shape.
#* Addison
# The long, narrow part of a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
# A sharp peak in a graph.
# a surge in power.
# (informal) In spikes : running shoes with spikes in the soles.
# (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
(slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
* 1933 : , p. 139.
To fix on a spike; to pierce or run through with a spike.
# To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
# To set or furnish with spikes.
# (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
#* 1834 , (Frederick Marryat), Peter Simple :
#* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 235-6:
# (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public. (From the former practice of newspaper editors impaling sheets of typewritten articles not selected for publication on a metal spike or spindle placed on their desks: see 2010 quotation.)
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# (American football) To slam a football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
# (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To increase sharply.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
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# (specifically) To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into food or drink.
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
* Shakespeare
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
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.
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.
To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
To attack suddenly and violently.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
To cause to jump.
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
(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
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
* John Locke
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
* Shakespeare
(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.
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A jumping move in a board game.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
(sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An early start or an advantage.
(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.
(obsolete) exactly; precisely
* Marcellus, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65
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
As a proper noun spike
is .As a verb jump is
to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.As a noun jump is
the act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound or jump can be a kind of loose jacket for men.As an adverb jump is
(obsolete) exactly; precisely.As an adjective jump is
(obsolete) exact; matched; fitting; precise.spike
English
Noun
(en noun)- oil of spike
- He wears on his head the corona radiata ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.
- "Dere's tay spikes', and cocoa '''spikes''', and skilly ' spikes ."
Synonyms
* catkin, raceme, cluster, corymb, umbelDerived terms
{{der3, marlinspike , spike addition}}Verb
(spik)- to spike down planks
- (Young)
- He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer’s hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.
- Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns.
- Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.
- The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.
- She spiked my lemonade with vodka!
Derived terms
* spike someone's gunsSynonyms
* (volleyball): attack, hitAnagrams
* * * English terms with multiple etymologiesjump
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)- The boy jumped over a fence.
- Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
- Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
- She is going to jump from the diving board.
- to jump a stream
- The sudden sharp sound made me jump .
- The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
- I hate it when people jump the queue.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
- to jump a body with a dangerous physic
- 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 bonesDerived 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'' ' jumpingNoun
(en noun)- To advance by jumps .
- Our fortune lies / Upon this jump .
- The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
- There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
- She was terrified before the jump , but was thrilled to be skydiving.
- the knight's jump in chess
- Press jump to start.
- Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
- 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.
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, twitchDerived terms
* high jump * * * jump drive * jump jet * jump rope * long jump * triple jump * Walleye jumpAdverb
(-)- Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
- With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.