jumper
part of speech
noun (a jumper, jumpers)
meaning for a pupil
1) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a jumper is a warm knitted top with long sleeves that you pull over your head (in the US: a sweater). tree →
2) In the US, a jumper is a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse (UK: pinafore). tree →
3) A jumper is a person or animal that jumps, like a high jumper. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school, a school jumper is part of the uniform, often with the school logo; label it with your name. In sports, a long jumper or high jumper takes part in athletics. In everyday life you put on a jumper when it is cold. Phrases: «woolly jumper», «school jumper», «Christmas jumper», «high jumper», «long jumper».
examples
- Put your jumper on — it's cold outside. tree →
- My school jumper is navy blue. tree →
- Grandma knitted me a woolly jumper. tree →
- We wore silly Christmas jumpers. tree →
- He is the best high jumper in our school. tree →
- Kangaroos are amazing jumpers. tree →
- In America, a jumper is a kind of dress. tree →
- Write your name in your jumper so it doesn't get lost. tree →
- Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room. tree →
note
Countable. Big UK/US trap: UK «jumper» = US «sweater»; US «jumper» = UK «pinafore dress». Australians also say «jumper» or «jersey»; New Zealanders often say «jersey» or «jumper».
In the corpora
- Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.
- A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.
- Clues in a text, like crumbs on a jumper, can show that a character is not telling the truth.
- The weather can change during the day, so a jumper or raincoat is packed when the forecast says so.
- Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «jumper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.