Lexic.us

Definition of Jumper

1. Noun. A person who jumps. "The jumper's parachute opened"

2. Noun. An athlete who competes at jumping. "He is one hell of a jumper"

3. Noun. A crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body.

4. Noun. A coverall worn by children.

5. Noun. A small connector used to make temporary electrical connections.

6. Noun. A loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen.

7. Noun. A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing.

8. Noun. (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump.

Definition of Jumper

1. n. One who, or that which, jumps.

2. n. A loose upper garment

3. n. A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;

Definition of Jumper

1. Noun. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly British) A woolen sweater or pullover. ¹

3. Noun. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors. ¹

4. Noun. A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children. ¹

5. Noun. (''usually as'' '''jumpers''') Rompers. ¹

6. Noun. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also '''jump wire'''. ¹

7. Noun. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board. ¹

8. Noun. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jumper

1. one that jumps [n -S] - See also: jumps

Medical Definition of Jumper

1. 1. One who, or that which, jumps. 2. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen. 3. A rude kind of sleigh; usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. 4. The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. 5. A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterised by violent convulsions. 6. Spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. Bounty jumper. See Bounty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumper

jump up jumpable jumpathon jumpathons jumpcut jumpcuts jumped jumped-up jumped down someone's throat jumped one's bones

jumped rope jumped someone's bones jumped the gun jumped the queue jumped the shark jumper (current term) jumper cable jumper cables jumper disease of Maine jumper lead

jumpered jumperless jumperlike jumpers jumpeth jumpier jumpiest jumpily jumpiness jumpinesses

Literary usage of Jumper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"CHAPTER II PETEB AND jumper GO TO SCHOOL HARDLY had jolly, round, red Mr. Sun thrown off his rosy blankets and begun his daily climb up in the blue, ..."

2. Electric Car Maintenance: Selected from the Electric Railway Journal by Walter Jackson (1914)
"1 shows the train cable jumper complete. After the hose is cut to the proper ... OUTLINE OF RECEPTACLE LID Seven-point jumper and receptacle gage, Brooklyn. ..."

3. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Richard Miller Devens (1866)
"Bounty-jumper Captured by a Dog. The good deeds of a dog have more than once had to be put in contrast with the mean tricks of the human kind, ..."

4. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"... Payne's Landing—Jackson's " talk"—Outrages upon the Florida Indians—Indian talk—Micanopy—jumper—Osceola—The mad policy which provoked the Florida war. ..."

5. Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen: From the Earliest Times to by James Wills (1842)
"... and they succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectations. In this enter- irise captain jumper took a prominent and active part; the treasure, ..."

6. A Popular cyclopedia of modern domestic medicine: Comprising Every Recent by Keith Imray (1849)
"Baby jumper, with the child il consists in straps of strong gum elastic, which serve as spring! cealed from the sight by a sheath made of any kind of ..."

7. The Youth's Sketch Book by Lydia Maria (Francis) Child (1834)
"JANE AND jumper. IN a green, narrow, shady lane, not far froi the noble manor-house of Sir John Howar stood a small hut or hovel, in which there dw old Mary ..."

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