fall vs jump

fall

verb
  • To come as if by dropping down. 

  • To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. 

  • To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. 

  • To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. 

  • To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen. 

  • To become. 

  • To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). 

  • To be dropped or uttered carelessly. 

  • To be brought to the ground. 

  • To die, especially in battle or by disease. 

  • To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). 

  • To hang down (under the influence of gravity). 

  • To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. 

  • To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. 

  • To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. 

  • To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. 

  • To come down, to drop or descend. 

noun
  • A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. 

  • The action of a batsman being out. 

  • The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). 

  • An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. 

  • The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. 

  • A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. 

  • The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard 

  • A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. 

  • A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. 

  • Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. 

  • The chasing of a hunted whale. 

  • A loss of greatness or status. 

  • That which falls or cascades. 

intj
  • The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned. 

jump

verb
  • 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 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

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

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