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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to jump.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
▸ verb:  (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
▸ verb:  To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
▸ verb:  (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
▸ verb:  To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
▸ noun:  The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
▸ noun:  An effort; an attempt; a venture.
▸ noun:  (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
▸ noun:  (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
▸ noun:  An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
▸ noun:  An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
▸ noun:  An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
▸ noun:  An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
▸ noun:  An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
▸ noun:  A jumping move in a board game.
▸ noun:  A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
▸ noun:  (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
▸ noun:  (with on) An early start or an advantage.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
▸ noun:  (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
▸ noun:  (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Exactly; precisely
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
▸ noun:  A kind of loose jacket for men.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start. [The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.]
▸ noun:  (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.]

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