jumper
see also: Jumper
Pronunciation Noun
Jumper
Proper noun
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see also: Jumper
Pronunciation Noun
jumper (plural jumpers)
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
- Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
- 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits
- With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.
- 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
- (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- German: Springer, Springerin
- Portuguese: saltador
- Russian: прыгу́н
- French: cavalier
- Italian: jumper
- Portuguese: jumper
- Russian: перемы́чка
- German: Jumper
- Italian: jumper
- Russian: джа́мпер
jumper (jumpers, present participle jumpering; past and past participle jumpered)
- To connect with an electrical jumper.
jumper (plural jumpers)
- (chiefly, British, Australian, New Zealand) A woolen sweater or pullover.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
- (usually as jumpers) Rompers.
- French: pull
- German: Pullover, Jumper
- Italian: maglione, pullover
- Portuguese: suéter
- Russian: дже́мпер
- Spanish: chaleco
Jumper
Proper noun
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