Charleston vs jump

Charleston

noun
  • A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. 

name
  • A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers. 

  • A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina. 

  • A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler. 

  • An area of Dundee, Scotland. 

  • A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County. 

  • A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler. 

  • A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster. 

  • A city in Tennessee. 

  • A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler. 

  • The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler. 

  • A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England. 

  • A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand. 

  • A town in South Australia. 

  • A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County. 

  • A community in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

  • A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation. 

  • A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville). 

jump

noun
  • Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”) 

  • An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. 

  • An object which causes one to jump; a ramp. 

  • 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. 

  • A kind of loose jacket for men. 

  • An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. 

  • A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). 

  • A jumping move in a board game. 

  • An early start or an advantage. 

  • An effort; an attempt; a venture. 

  • A change of the path of execution to a different location. 

  • An instance of propelling oneself upwards. 

  • A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. 

  • An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. 

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

  • An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. 

  • A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. 

  • An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space. 

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

verb
  • To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. 

  • To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. 

  • To bore with a jumper. 

  • To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it. 

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

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

  • To attack suddenly and violently. 

  • To move the distance between two opposing subjects. 

  • To cause to 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. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person). 

  • To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. 

  • To increase speed aggressively and without warning. 

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

  • To join by a buttweld. 

  • To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. 

  • To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up. 

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

  • To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter. 

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