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 →

2) To jump is to move suddenly because you are surprised or scared. tree →

3) To jump is to rise suddenly, like a price or a number. tree →

4) A jump is one push into the air, or the distance of it. tree →

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 →
• The mouse jumped 9 inches less than the frog. tree →
• She did 20 jumps. tree →
• How far did the grasshopper jump? tree →
• We jump rope at recess. tree →
• The loud bang made me jump. tree →
• On the number line, make jumps of 5 from 0 to 30. tree →
• The price of apples jumped last week. tree →
• The horse jumped over the fence. tree →
• Don't jump to conclusions before you read the whole story. tree →
• Perhaps he could jump over it. tree →

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.
• Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.
• Elephants may jump at small sudden things, but the story that they are specially afraid of mice is a myth.
• Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.
• The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jump» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.