jump (original) (raw)
jump verb (SEQUENCE)
jump verb (AVOID)
jump verb (ATTACK)
jump verb (GO THROUGH)
jump verb (BUSY)
be jumping old-fashioned informal
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
jump noun [C] (INCREASE)
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- increaseThere has been an sharp increase in municipal taxes this year.
- riseLast month saw a rise in the rate of inflation.
- gainWe are not seeing the gains in productivity that we expected.
- boostWe are hoping for a boost in sales this year.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Idioms
(Definition of jump from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
jump | American Dictionary
jump verb (RAISE UP SUDDENLY)
jump verb (MOVE QUICKLY)
A man jumped out of the bushes.
jump verb (OMIT STAGES)
jump verb (INCREASE)
jump verb (ATTACK)
Idioms
Phrasal verb
jump noun [C] (RAISING UP SUDDENLY)
The skater’s jump was high but not graceful.
jump noun [C] (OMITTING STAGES)
(Definition of jump from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of jump
jump
With the return to peacetime discourse, interest in the scientific approach jumped sharply.
The star performer, as for several years past, was polypropylene, which jumped from under 3.1m tonnes in 1989 to over 3.3m tonnes last year.
Suddenly, they both jumped up, pulled off their remaining cotton restrictions and plunged straight into the water.
As already noted the rate of net foreign investment first jumped to significant levels in the 1850s and 1860s.
The shepherds in turn sit and admire the lovely jumps of the satyrs.
The initial adjustments reflect jumps in the state variables, and have to be accounted for separately.
Slippage was readily evident as sporadic jumps in strain during testing.
The book would have benefited from a tighter structure: it too often jumps between eras and personages.
Probability of these jumps is reflected in the current temperature.
Occasionally, we observed jumping spiders preying on marked flies shortly after release.
In their study, participants were required to make fast movements to targets that either remained stationary or jumped to a new location.
In one condition, participants were instructed to correct their movements on-line when the target jumped.
Unemployment jumped from a low of 2.7 per cent to a high of 4.3 per cent in 1966.
As far as we know, the results concerning maps with bounded jumps are new.
Figure 1 shows costs accumulating after less than ten years with interior systems jumping another 10% of initial construction ever y seven years.
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Collocations with jump
These are words often used in combination with jump.
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To my surprise, unemployment took a big jump, and the real exchange rate suffered a sizable increase.
In my argument, pregnancy is the bungee jump.
It would, in fact, impose a double jump, as it were, on some people who may be possibly undeserving, but on others who most certainly are deserving.
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