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It's a small jump from 'job creator' to 'The Creator'.

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a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jump gathered in one view.

noun

a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"

noun

an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

noun

(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jump.

noun

a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"

See also: leap

noun

an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

noun

(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another

noun

a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"

noun

descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"

noun

the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"

verb

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

verb

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

verb

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

verb

increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"

verb

be highly noticeable

verb

enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"

verb

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

verb

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"

See also: leap

verb

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

verb

jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

verb

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

See also: leap

verb

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

verb

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

verb

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

See also: leap

verb

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

Example sentences

It's a small jump from 'job creator' to 'The Creator'.

As such, they have a higher bar to jump over if they want me to acknowledge that they have created a "modern" browser.

Can you think of them?The conclusion that something is wrong here may well be a jump-the-shark moment for HN comments.

I'm already at the point where I want to jump ship; I just can't figure out how to do it without losing contact with my friends.

In particular, I think it's somewhat amusing that people are giving him grief for wanting to "jump to C as soon as possible.

Even encouraged several friends to jump in on the WakeMate wagon!It finally arrived, and for the most part it worked.

The world has slowly become spineless, and when someone like Josh Hwu shows a spine and stands up for what's right a rather large fraction of fellow programmers jump on him.

" Any rational kernel developer wants to jump to C as soon as possible -- and wants as much of the system to be in C as possible.

Another option would be to apply the endorsement system only after threads have reached a certain age so as to jump-start discussions.

Even if this is evidence that the Model S is probably safer with regards to fires than a traditional gasoline car, naywayers will jump on it.

Nothing in computing is worse than software that knows exactly what you want it to do, then gives some shitdick excuse as to why it's not going to do it in an effort to get you to jump through meaningless hoops.

The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.

Reading some of the comments, I am reminded of the Greek concept of hubris...In particular, it is funny how programmers, who make their living by controlling complicated systems, jump to the conclusion that every complicated system is trivially subject to human control.