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# jump

«jump» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push yourself up or forward into the air with your legs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (jump, jumps, jumped, jumping); noun (a jump, jumps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To jump is to push yourself up or forward into the air with your legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#m1)

2) To jump is to move suddenly because you are surprised or scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#m2)

3) To jump is to rise suddenly, like a price or a number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#m3)

4) A jump is one push into the air, or the distance of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a distance in a jumping contest, told in inches and compared; or jumps counted (jumping jacks, rope jumps); on a number line, jumps of equal size show adding or counting by steps; phrases «jump rope», «jump in», «jump the queue», «jump to conclusions»

### examples

- The frog jumped 39 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x1)
- The mouse jumped 9 inches less than the frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x2)
- She did 20 jumps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x3)
- How far did the grasshopper jump? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x4)
- We jump rope at recess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x5)
- The loud bang made me jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x6)
- On the number line, make jumps of 5 from 0 to 30. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x7)
- The price of apples jumped last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x8)
- The horse jumped over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x9)
- Don't jump to conclusions before you read the whole story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x10)
- Perhaps he could jump over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/#x11)

### note

A distance or a count of jumps. «jumped N farther» adds, «N less» takes away. Trap: the answer is a distance in inches, not a number of animals. «Jump the queue» (UK) means to push in front of people waiting. Safety: never jump into water when you do not know how deep it is.

### In the corpora

- [Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft, steady breath gives a clear note.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/5/)
- [Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/14/)
- [Elephants may jump at small sudden things, but the story that they are specially afraid of mice is a myth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/15/)
- [Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/11/)
- [The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jump» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jump/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.