Definition of jump

• n. - A kind of loose jacket for men.
• n. - A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
• v. i. - To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
• v. i. - To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
• v. i. - To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
• v. t. - To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
• v. t. - To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
• v. t. - To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. t. - To join by a butt weld.
• v. t. - To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. t. - To bore with a jumper.
• n. - The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. - An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. - The space traversed by a leap.
• n. - A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. - An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• a. - Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• adv. - Exactly; pat.