jump vs knockdown

jump

noun
  • 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 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 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. 

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. 

knockdown

noun
  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

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