1. (

• jump ,
• leap ,
• bound ,
• spring ,

) move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" ;

2. (

• startle ,
• jump ,
• start ,

) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" ;

3. (

• jump

) make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat" ;

4. (

• jump

) increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight" ;

5. (

• leap_out ,
• jump_out ,
• jump ,
• stand_out ,
• stick_out ,

) be highly noticeable ;

6. (

• jump ,

) enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game" ;

7. (

• rise ,
• jump ,
• climb_up ,

) rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" ;

8. (

• jump ,
• leap ,
• jump_off ,

) jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre" ;

9. (

• derail ,
• jump ,

) run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" ;

10. (

• chute ,
• parachute ,
• jump ,

) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute ;

11. (

• jump ,
• leap ,

) cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop" ;

12. (

• jumpstart ,
• jump-start ,
• jump ,

) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery ;

13. (

• jump ,
• pass_over ,
• skip ,
• skip_over

) bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" ;

14. (

• leap ,
• jump ,

) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" ;

15. (

• alternate ,
• jump ,

) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions ;