Usually means: Leaped or sprang off ground.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. jumped: Merriam-Webster
  2. jumped: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jumped: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jumped, jumped: Wordnik
  5. jumped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jumped: Wiktionary
  7. Jumped, jumped: Dictionary.com
  8. jumped: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Jumped: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Jumped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Jumped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. jumped: FreeDictionary.org
  13. jumped: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jumped: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumped: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumped: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumped: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jump)

verb:  (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
verb:  (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
verb:  (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
verb:  (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
verb:  (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
verb:  (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
verb:  (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
verb:  (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to jump.
verb:  (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
verb:  (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
verb:  (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
verb:  (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
verb:  To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
verb:  (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
verb:  To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
verb:  (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
verb:  (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
verb:  (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
noun:  The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
noun:  An effort; an attempt; a venture.
noun:  (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
noun:  (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
noun:  An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
noun:  An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
noun:  An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
noun:  An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
noun:  An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
noun:  A jumping move in a board game.
noun:  A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
noun:  (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
noun:  (with on) An early start or an advantage.
noun:  (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
noun:  (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
noun:  (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
noun:  (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
noun:  (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
adverb:  (obsolete) Exactly; precisely
adjective:  (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
noun:  A kind of loose jacket for men.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start. [The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.]
noun:  (film) Clipping of jump cut. [(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.]
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