jumping Definitie in het Nederlands

• 0 present participle of jump --

• 1 to push yourself suddenly off the ground and into the air using your legs: --

  • All the horses are finding it difficult to jump the last fence.

  • Can you jump over/across this stream?

  • Our cat is always jumping up on/onto the furniture.

  • He had to jump out of an upstairs window to escape.

  • She ran across the grass and jumped into the water.

  • The children were jumping up and down with excitement.

• 2 to move or act suddenly or quickly: --

  • I almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a loud crash downstairs.

  • The loud explosion made everyone jump.

  • She jumped in/into a taxi and rushed to the station.

  • He suddenly jumped to his feet/jumped up and left.

• 3 to increase suddenly by a large amount: --

  • The cost of building the road has jumped by 70 percent.

  • House prices have jumped dramatically.

• 4 If a story, film, play, etc. jumps, it moves suddenly between different parts of it: --

  • His talk was hard to follow because he kept jumping from one subject to another.

  • The movie is about his adult life, but it keeps jumping (back) to when he was a child.

• 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.