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What does jump mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
  2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
  3. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
  4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  5. (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.
  6. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
  7. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
  8. (transitive) To cause to jump.
  9. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
  10. (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.
  11. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
  12. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  13. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
  14. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  15. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
  16. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
  17. (computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
Noun
  1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  3. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
  4. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
  6. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
  7. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  8. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  9. A jumping move in a board game.
  10. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
  11. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
  12. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
  13. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
  14. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
  15. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
Adverb
  1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely
Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
Noun
  1. A kind of loose jacket for men.
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