Verb
1. move forward by leaps and bounds;
"The horse bounded across the meadow""The child leapt across the puddle""Can you jump over the fence?"2. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;
"She startled when I walked into the room"3. make a sudden physical attack on;
"The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"4. increase suddenly and significantly;
"Prices jumped overnight"5. be highly noticeable
6. enter eagerly into;
"He jumped into the game"7. rise in rank or status;
"Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"8. run off or leave the rails;
"the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"9. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
10. cause to jump or leap;
"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"11. start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery
12. bypass;
"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"13. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another;
"leap into fame""jump to a conclusion"14. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions