jumped

noun

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

(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 object which causes one to jump; a ramp.

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, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

(with on) 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.

(physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.

(slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike

(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.

(theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).

A kind of loose jacket for men.

A surname.

(US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start. [The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.]

(film) Clipping of jump cut. [(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.]

verb

(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

(transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.

(intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

(intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

(intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

(intransitive) 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.

(transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.

(transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.

(transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

(transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

(transitive) To cause to jump.

(transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

(transitive) 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, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

(transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.

To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.

(intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

(intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.

(intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.

(intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.

(transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

(intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.

adjective

(obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

adverb

(obsolete) Exactly; precisely

Synonyms & related words for jumped

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of jumped. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to jumped

Explore words related to jumped — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include jumping, leap, leapt, jumps, galumph, curvet, saltation, saltatory. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.