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jump

verb

1 the cat jumped off his lap | Flora began to jump about all over the kitchen:

leap, spring, bound, hop, bounce;

skip, bob, caper, dance, prance, gambol, frolic, frisk, cavort.

2 the youth jumped the fence and ran across the yard:

vault (over), leap over, clear, sail over, hop over, go over, leapfrog;

pole-vault, hurdle.

3 pre-tax profits jumped from £51,000 to £1. 03 million | pretax profits jumped from $51,000 to $1.03 million:

rise, go up, leap up, shoot up, soar, surge;

climb, increase, mount, escalate, spiral;

informal skyrocket.

▷antonyms fall, plummet.

4 an owl hooted nearby, making her jump:

start, jerk, jolt, flinch, recoil, twitch, wince;

shudder, shake, quiver;

informal jump out of one's skin.

5 Polly jumped at the chance to go:

accept eagerly, leap at, welcome with open arms, seize on, snap up, grab, snatch, pounce on, go for enthusiastically, show enthusiasm for.

6 informal he jumped at least seven red lights:

ignore, disregard, fail to stop at, drive through, overshoot;

informal run.

□ jump the gun

informal

act prematurely, act too soon, be overhasty, be precipitate;

informal be previous, be ahead of oneself.

□ jump to it

informal

hurry up, get a move on, be quick;

informal get cracking, get moving, get on with it, shake a leg, look lively, look sharp, get/pull one's finger out, get weaving, rattle one's dags;

British, informal get one's skates on, stir one's stumps;

North American, informal get a wiggle on;

Australian, New Zealand, informal get a wriggle on;

South African, informal put foot;

dated make haste.

noun

1 in making the short jump across the gully, he lost his balance:

leap, spring, vault, bound, hop;

bounce, skip.

2 the horse cleared the last jump with ease:

obstacle, barrier;

fence, hurdle, rail, hedge, gate.

3 a fifty-one per cent jump in annual profits:

rise, leap, increase, upturn, upsurge, upswing, spiralling, lift, escalation, elevation, boost, advance, augmentation;

informal hike.

▷antonyms fall, drop.

4 I woke up with a jump:

start, jerk, sudden movement, involuntary movement, convulsive movement, spasm, twitch, wince;

shudder, quiver, shake.

jump Oxford Dictionary of English