The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jump \Jump\, n.
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. ``To advance by jumps.''
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An effort; an attempt; a venture. [Obs.]
Our fortune lies Upon thisjump.
--Shak. The space traversed by a leap.
(Mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
(Arch.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
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A jump-start; as, to get a jump from a passing mmotorist. From the jump, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.] Jump joint.
A butt joint.
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A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. Jump seat.
A movable carriage seat.
A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.
Usage examples of "from the jump".
Vriesman watches anxiously through binoculars from the jump door, trying to gauge the difficulty of getting Moore back into the helicopter.
The screen jumped, and a ring appeared indicating a cluster of ships moving together at high velocity away from the Jump point.
He'd walked in the woods with Army soldiers, crawled in the mud with Marines, even watched an aerial refueling from the jump seat of a C-SB transport (the most unnatural act he ever expected to see, two airplanes mating in midair at three hundred knots), and played with the Army's heavy troops at Fort Irwin, California, where he'd tried his hand at driving and shooting tanks and Bradleys.
He paused at a transparent portal, caught half by the vista from the jump station and half by his own reflection.
They had moved into the Jump at half-light speed relative to the galactic nucleus in the tardyon-universe, and they emerged from the Jump at (of course) the same speed.
Neville, USMC, based on what he had heard from the jump-master, from Corporal Steve Koffler, and on his own previous observations of Lieutenant Colonel Franklin G.