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the verb-stem used in Comb.: jump-ball, jump ball Basketball, a ball thrown between two opposing players by the referee; jump-cord, a cord to be jumped over; jump-coupling, a coupling of which the box consists of a collar of metal bored to fit the two connected ends of the shafts = thimble-coupling; jump-cut, jump cut Cinemat. and Television (see quot. 1953); also transf., attrib. and as v. trans. and intr.; jump-jet, jump jet, a vertical take-off/landing jet aircraft; jump jockey Horse-racing, a jockey who rides in steeplechases; jump-joint, (a) a joint in which the parts are welded end to end together, a butt-joint (see butt n.7 2); (b) a flush-joint in which the edges of the plates or planking are laid close together and make a smooth surface; hence jump-jointed a.; jump-lead, each of a pair of leads for conveying electric charge from one car battery to another during a jump start; jump-ring, a wire ring made by bringing the two ends together without welding; jump-rocks, a catostomoid fish, Moxostoma cervinum, of southern U.S.; jump-rope, jump rope (chiefly N. Amer.), a skipping-rope; jump-seat, (a) a movable carriage-seat; also adj. and n. (ellipt.) (a carriage) provided with such a seat which can be brought into use when required; (b) a folding seat in a motor car; also transf.; jump-shot, jump shot, (a) Billiards, etc., a shot which causes the ball to jump; (b) Basketball (see quot. 1961); jump-spark, jump spark, a spark produced by the application of a potential difference to two electrical conductors separated by a narrow gap; usu. attrib., designating devices or methods employing this; jump-start v. trans., to start (a vehicle) using the charge from another vehicle's battery, by means of jump-leads; hence also as n., the starting of a vehicle in this way; jump-stroke (Croquet): see quot.; jump take-off Aeronaut., a vertical take-off; jump-turn, jump turn, a turn made while jumping; spec. in Skiing; jump-weld, a weld effected by hammering together the heated ends of two pieces of metal; a butt-weld; hence jump-weld v.
| 1924 W. E. Meanwell Sci. of Basket Ball 62 During scrimmage watch the tip-off formations and also those for *jump ball and from out of bounds. 1939 Jourdet & Hashagen Mod. Basketball xi. 63 Cover your man well on all jump balls. If you are jumping someone else's man, make sure he covers yours. 1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 3D/1 The game had started on a technical foul when the Beavers were awarded a free throw instead of the usual jump ball. |
| 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing 280 *Jump cut, cut which breaks continuity of time by jumping forward from one part of an action to another obviously separated from the first by an interval of time. 1962 Listener 9 Aug. 223/1 The eye-jerking, ear-jarring jump cuts which result when the commercials are removed from imported American programmes. 1962 Punch 19 Sept. 428/1 Harsh jump-cuts that might almost be breaks in the film. 1964 Observer 12 July 25/5 A jump-cut speeded-up sequence mostly shot from a helicopter. 1965 Time 18 June 80 He recklessly jump-cuts from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions. 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep vii. 130 The soft lines of the black visage jump-cut into wary maturity. |
| 1966 Punch 6 July 26/2 The restless, *jump-cutting style is sometimes disconcerting—one takes a second or two to realise that an expected bridging passage has been waived. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 June 649/4 A series of frenzied incidents..a matter of jump-cuts and unfinished sentences suggestive of a painful collaboration between Ken Kesey and Ford Madox Ford. 1974 Ibid. 14 June 629/4 The reader adjusts soon enough to the breakneck jump-cuts of the first few pages. 1975 New Yorker 20 Jan. 79/1 Once Trintignant takes over as the filmmaker, the movie loses its playful movie-within-a-movie spirit, and the technique, which had been a sprinting, jump-cutting shorthand that didn't take itself too seriously, turns glassy smooth. |
| 1964 Sunday Times 12 Jan. 1/4 The Ministry of Defence delays ordering the revolutionary Hawker P. 1154 ‘*jump jet’ fighter. 1970 New Scientist 19 Feb. 362/1 The trials that the RAF and RN are now conducting on the employment at sea of the Harrier ‘jump-jet’. 1973 Guardian 18 Apr. 24/5 A command cruiser designed to carry jump-jet aircraft. |
| 1970 J. Leach Rider on Stand ix. 89 *Jump jockeys are a devil-may-care bunch. They accept the hazards of their profession in a happy-go-lucky manner. 1972 Times 29 Nov. 1/1 Michael Eddery, the jump jockey,..had his right leg amputated. 1973 Scotsman 7 Aug. 15/6 Barry Brogan's dispute with the Jockey Club over renewal of his jump jockey's licence ended amicably. |
| 1874 Thearle Naval Archit. 95 Among these early systems [of combining the bottom plates] was that of flush or *jump joints and butts connected by edge strips and butt straps on the inside surface. |
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Jump-jointed, when the plates of an iron vessel are flush, as in those that are carvel-built. |
| 1969 Motor 15 Nov. 85 (caption) KL Automotive products Ltd. have introduced two new battery booster cables (*jump leads in garage jargon). 1976 Drive Nov.–Dec. 40/2 Battery jump-leads... Hitch up your car to theirs with these thick, high-current-carrying leads. 1980 Know about your Car (A.A.) 284/1 On an automatic car with a flat battery use jump leads. |
| [1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 40 At three year auld he crys for whips,..And guns, and girrs, and jumpin'-rapes.] 1834 Emerson Jrnl. (1964) IV. 359 Thus is one reminded of the children's prayers who in confessing their sins, say, ‘Yes, I did take the *jumprope from Mary.’ 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. x. 147 Mr. Bhaer down on his hands and knees..Kitty leading him with a jump-rope. 1969 R. D. Abrahams (title) Jump-rope rhymes. 1973 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Apr. 8/1 Spring brings activity—jacks and jump ropes pop up with the flowers. |
| 1864 Webster, *Jump-seat, a carriage constructed with a movable seat;..a movable carriage-seat. Ibid., Jump-seat, a., having a movable seat; as, a jump-seat rock-away. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Jump-seat,..a kind of open buggy which has a shifting seat or seats... It may be arranged as a double or single seat vehicle. 1931 Automotive Abstr. Aug. 238/2 Treatment of the jump-seat explains unique problems presented by this accessory. 1963 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Nov. (1970) 8 We all got into the same limousine—Mrs. Kennedy and Lyndon in the back seat, the Attorney General and I in the jump seats. 1972 Guardian 18 Sept. 14/1, I was sitting in the jump seat... We were racing through the city. 1973 Black Panther 6 Oct. 10/1 Only the jump seat for stewardesses was behind him. |
| 1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf 92 This shot has its exact counterpart on the billiard table in the useful *jump-shot. 1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 250 Jump shot (basketball), a shot taken with both feet off the floor. It can be made with one or two hands with the one-handed shot in general use in the National Basketball Association. 1966 Miller & Thorp Croquet 174 Jump shot, a shot in which the ball is struck so that it leaves the ground. 1969 New Yorker 14 June 79/1 You go through Harlem and you'll see kids less than five feet tall with pretty good jump shots and hook shots. 1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 20 Apr. 8A/1 New York's Julius Erving, known as Dr. J., drilled the 20-foot jump shot that gave the Nets their 3–0 margin in the series with an 89–87 victory at Louisville on Wednesday. |
| 1908 J. H. Adams in Onker & Baker Harper's How to understand Electr. Work 340/2 *Jump-spark, a disruptive spark excited between two conducting surfaces in distinction from a spark excited by a rubbing contact. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Apr. 8/1 A regal Marine Engine... Jump spark or make-and-break ignition. 1922 A. F. Collins Bk. Wireless Telegraph & Telephone i. 6 The spark-coil, or induction coil,..is used to change the battery current into a current of high pressure to make jump sparks. 1938 A. W. Judge Automobile Electr. Maintenance ii. 27 A brass plate at the end of the arm..passes very close to the brass contacts..as it rotates, so that a spark leaps across the small air gap. This is known as the jump spark method. 1963 Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 8 ‘Jump-spark’ ignition in American usage generally, though not always, referred to high tension coil and battery apparatus with a mechanical contact-breaker and non-trembling coil, but in English usage, at one time, ‘jump-spark ignition’ meant any form of H.T. ignition with spark-gaps or ‘intensifiers’ included in the circuit. |
| [1973 Motor 10 Nov. 22/3 (heading) Jump-a-start.] 1976 J. Webster Automotive Fund. for Consumer viii. 176 To *jump-start a car, another car with a good battery and a set of jumper cables is needed. 1977 Washington Post 9 Nov. b8/2 Another car, also with its hood up and facing the stalled car, was trying to give it a jump start. 1985 New Yorker 21 Oct. 38/2, I jump-start her car when her battery is dead, she gives me basil from her garden. |
| 1874 J. D. Heath Croquet Player 41 The leapfrog or *jump stroke has lately been used..with great success, for getting through narrow hoops at a very oblique angle... The effect of this stroke is to make the ball jump up when it strikes the further wire of the hoop. |
| 1939 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIII. 62 A sustaining rotor for a gyroplane of the ‘*jump take-off’ type. |
| 1924 Tourist Winter Sports No. 12/1 *Jump turn, a method of changing direction or stopping. 1949 Shurr & Yocom Mod. Dance v. 147 Add a jump in place after each landing, before executing jump-turn movement in air. 1972 M. Yorke Silent Witness ii. 13 He did a quick jump turn and took the narrow track, running fast along the twisting piste. |
| 1864 Webster s.v. Weld, Butt-weld, or *jump-weld. |