Jerk vs. Jump

Jerknoun

A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

Jerknoun

A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

Jerknoun

A dull or stupid person.

Jerknoun

A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.

Jerknoun

The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

Jerknoun

(obsolete) A soda jerk.

Jerknoun

(weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.

Jerknoun

(Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.

Jerknoun

(Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.

Jerkverb

(intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

Jerkverb

(transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

Jerkverb

To masturbate.

Jerkverb

(obsolete) To beat, to hit.

Jerkverb

(obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

Jerkverb

To lift using a jerk.

Jerkverb

(obsolete) To flout with contempt.

Jerkverb

To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Jerkverb

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, to jerk beef. See Charqui.

Jerkverb

To beat; to strike.

Jerkverb

To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

Jerkverb

To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

Jerkverb

To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

Jerkverb

To flout with contempt.

Jerknoun

A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.

Jerknoun

A sudden start or spring.

Jerknoun

Calisthenic exercises, such as push-ups or deep knee bends; also called physical jerks.

Jerknoun

A foolish, stupid, or otherwise contemptible person.

Jerknoun

The lifting of a weight, in a single rapid motion, from shoulder height until the arms are outstretched above the head; distinguished from press in that the motion in a jerk is more rapid, and the body may be moved under the weight to assist completion of the movement; as, a clean and jerk of two hundred pounds.

Jerknoun

a dull stupid fatuous person

Jerknoun

an abrupt spasmodic movement

Jerknoun

(mechanics) the rate of change of velocity

Jerknoun

a sudden abrupt pull

Jerkverb

pull, or move with a sudden movement;

Jerkverb

move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions;

Jerkverb

make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion;

Jerkverb

jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Jerkverb

throw or toss with a quick motion;

Jumpverb

(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

Jumpverb

(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

Jumpverb

(transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

Jumpverb

(intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

Jumpverb

(intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

Jumpverb

(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.

Jumpverb

(transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

Jumpverb

(transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

Jumpverb

To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

Jumpverb

(transitive) To cause to jump.

Jumpverb

(transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

Jumpverb

(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.

Jumpverb

To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

Jumpverb

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

Jumpverb

To join by a buttweld.

Jumpverb

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

Jumpverb

(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.

Jumpverb

(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

Jumpverb

To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

Jumpverb

To flee; to make one's escape.

Jumpnoun

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

Jumpnoun

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

Jumpnoun

(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

Jumpnoun

(architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

Jumpnoun

An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

Jumpnoun

An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

Jumpnoun

An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

Jumpnoun

An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

Jumpnoun

An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

Jumpnoun

A jumping move in a board game.

Jumpnoun

A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

Jumpnoun

An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

Jumpnoun

(with on) An early start or an advantage.

Jumpnoun

(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

Jumpnoun

(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

Jumpnoun

(programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.

Jumpnoun

A kind of loose jacket for men.

Jumpadverb

(obsolete) exactly; precisely

Jumpadjective

(obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Jumpnoun

A kind of loose jacket for men.

Jumpnoun

The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

Jumpnoun

An effort; an attempt; a venture.

Jumpnoun

The space traversed by a leap.

Jumpnoun

A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

Jumpnoun

An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

Jumpnoun

A jump-start; as, to get a jump from a passing mmotorist.

Jumpnoun

same as jump-start, n..

Jumpverb

To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

Jumpverb

To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.

Jumpverb

To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; - followed by with.

Jumpverb

To pass over by means of a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

Jumpverb

To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

Jumpverb

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

Jumpverb

To join by a butt weld.

Jumpverb

To bore with a jumper.

Jumpverb

same as jump-start, v. t..

Jumpadjective

Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Jumpadverb

Exactly; pat.

Jumpnoun

a sudden and decisive increase;

Jumpnoun

an abrupt transition;

Jumpnoun

(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another

Jumpnoun

a sudden involuntary movement;

Jumpnoun

descent with a parachute;

Jumpnoun

the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground;

Jumpverb

move forward by leaps and bounds;

Jumpverb

move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;

Jumpverb

make a sudden physical attack on;

Jumpverb

increase suddenly and significantly;

Jumpverb

be highly noticeable

Jumpverb

enter eagerly into;

Jumpverb

rise in rank or status;

Jumpverb

run off or leave the rails;

Jumpverb

jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

Jumpverb

cause to jump or leap;

Jumpverb

start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car's battery

Jumpverb

bypass;

Jumpverb

pass abruptly from one state or topic to another;

Jumpverb

go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions