the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"
descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"
increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"
bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"
make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford