jumper

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
4. An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
5. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
6. 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.
7. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
8. (informal) A jumping spider.
9. The larva of the cheese fly.
10. (historical, obsolete) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
11. A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
12. A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
13. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
14. A platform game based around jumping.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of smokejumper.

Verb

To connect with an electrical jumper.

Sinonieme

sweater

pullover

jersey

🇯🇪

crowbar

jump shot

jacket

iron jumper

pinafore

pinny

pullover sweater

hopper

lever

dancer

💃

flannel

gymnast

jumper wire

leaper

parachute

🪂

paratrooper

pawl

rammer

redeye

skipper

sledge

springbok

sweatshirt

tumbler

vaulter

black bass

gymslip

rope-dancer

bronzeback

brown bass

gold bass

green bass

drilling steel

iron lever

northern smallmouth bass

trout bass

bridle wire

bridge in bridge

jumper line

cross-bond

jumping bar

jumping wire

steel chisel

jumper skirt

acrobat

sweater

athlete

Vertalings

Pullover

maglione

Jumper

pullover

jersey

pull-over

Springer

saltador

sauteur

suéter

saltatore

Pulli

maglia

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: juype

In summary

From jump + -er.