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.
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.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
To display; to have as a notable feature.
To close (a door).
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
To amuse oneself, to play.
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
To represent by any kind of play.
Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
A sportsman; a gambler.
One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.