jumper.
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
Meaning & usage
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.
A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
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.
A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
A jumping spider.
The larva of the cheese fly.
One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
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.
A platform game based around jumping.
Ellipsis of smokejumper.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English jump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English jumper From jump + -er.
To connect with an electrical jumper.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English jump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English jumper From jump + -er.
A woollen 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; pinafore.
Rompers.
The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
Where this word comes from
From the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of uncertain origin. Jump is possibly from Scottish English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Middle English juype, gype, joupe, from Old French jupe, juppe, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with Middle Low German jōpe, gōpe (“waistcoat, jacket”), German Joppe (“jacket”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from jump.
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