jumper
Meaning
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- 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. Also jump wire.
- 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.
- (informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (obsolete) 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.
Synonyms
iron jumper
pullover sweater
jumper wire
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
bridge over
crow-bar
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/
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