0 past simple and past participle of jump
1 to push yourself suddenly off the ground and into the air using your legs:
4 If a story, film, play, etc. jumps, it moves suddenly between different parts of it:
5 to avoid or leave out a point or stage from the correct order in a series:
You have to follow the instructions exactly, you can't just jump a few steps ahead.
Unlike the wind characteristics, solar radiation never jumped from one point to another, it moved smoothly up and down in a step-like manner.
While none, for example, were reported in 1993 and 1994, the rate jumped to 10 in 1995 and 12 in 1996.
British import of foreign tin jumped from 4,000 tons to 86,600 tons from the 1840s to the 1870s.
Altogether, there were 29 occasions when prices jumped by twenty per cent or more, that is, once every six years (figure 1).
The fences were highly effective at excluding rabbits but larger vertebrates, for example roe and muntjac deer, occasionally jumped over them.
Furthermore, some patients are likely to have "jumped" a hypothetical state.
Much of organized labor jumped on the "competitiveness" bandwagon.
That number jumped to 59% when the children reached 14 years of age.
