jumpingn.

/ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/

Etymology: < jump v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of jump v., in various senses.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun]

leapingc1000

loupingc1440

loping1483

springing?1530

vaulting1531

saltion1541

jumping1565

exultation1599

bounding1607

exilition1646

saltation1646

salture1656

saliency1664

salitiona1682

upleaping1867

jumpery1882

the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > of land > summary

claim-jumping1846

jumping1889

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Saltatio, daunsyng, iumpyng.

1568 Bible (Bishops') Nahum iii. 2 The praunsing of horses and the iumping of charrets.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 190 There was either a strange jumping of good Wits, or Democritus was a sorry Plagiary.

1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 Apr. 73 An organized and systematic ‘jumping’ of the claims of the men whose title rests on this fraud.

1901 N.E.D. at Jumping Mod. Newsp. The jumping was exceptionally good.

Compounds

jumping-board n. a spring-board; also figurative.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > aids to leaping or jumping

risea1616

leap-staffc1626

springboard?1780

jumping-board1878

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

1878 H. H. Jackson Bits Trav. at Home 53 There are public gardens..with little ponds, and boats, and targets, and jumping-boards.

1909 Athenæum 21 Aug. 218/2 A jumping-board for the imagination to spring from.

jumping ground n.

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1900 Daily News 21 May 3/1 To achieve the independence of the Republics, and from that jumping-ground begin anew.

jumping jockey n. = jump jockey n. at jump- comb. form .

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > types of

feather1760

lightweight1773

welter1804

steeple hunter1830

a bad waster1833

steeplechaser1837

heavyweight1857

stoner1862

roper1870

point-to-pointer1929

jumping jockey1947

jump jockey1970

1947 W. G. Bebbington Rogues go Racing xviii. 115 There are some [jockeys] who are known to me as habitual gamblers. Particularly is this so with certain of our ‘jumping’ jockeys.

jumping-net n. a stout circular net into which one may jump to escape from a burning building.

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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 405/2 The Jumping Net is made of stout tarred hemp rope.

jumping-off board n. = jumping-board n.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey

start1610

jumping-off ground1897

jumping-off spot1909

jumping-off board1914

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

1914 Eng. Rev. Sept. 237 Salonika..was to be the German jumping-off board to Asia Minor.

1931 Musical Times June 497/2 His studies abroad had given him a stock of admirably nurtured gifts, but no jumping-off board such as that offered by a career in an English institution.

jumping-off ground n.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey

start1610

jumping-off ground1897

jumping-off spot1909

jumping-off board1914

1897 Daily News 24 Feb. 5/5 The strip of territory on the Transvaal border, which Mr. Stead called..the ‘jumping-off ground’.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xi. 82 That's absolutely the best jumping-off ground for the new life.

1959 P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski vi. 74 Tangiers is a convenient jumping-off ground.

jumping-off place n. (a) a place at which one jumps off from a conveyance or alights at the end of a journey, or from which one jumps off into the region beyond; also transferred and figurative; (b) North American a place regarded as being the farthest limit of civilization or settlement; a very remote place; the extreme limit of the earth; also figurative; (c) a starting-point for aircraft or the like.

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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place

utmostc825

world-endOE

world's endc1275

utteresta1300

utmostsa1382

uttermost1382

uttermosta1390

arsea1600

apogee1670

jumping-off place1826

Timbuctoo1863

arse-end1896

ass-end1960

society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > starting-off point for aircraft

jumping-off place1909

1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 366 Being, as they phrase it, the ‘jumping off place’, it is necessarily the resort of desperate, wicked, and strange creatures who wish to fly away from poverty, infamy, and the laws.

1828 A. Sherburne Mem. (1831) xi. 234 Ilean point was denominated the ‘jumping-off place’.

1834 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 68 Yarmouth, the jumping-off place of Nova Scotia.

1834 H. M. Brackenridge Recoll. x. 111 I had no jumping off or jumping up place, like those who prepare their exordium and perorations, and leave the body of the speech to take care of itself.

1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 64 Where shall I find words suitable to describe the peculiarities of that unholy spot? 'Tis, in fact, the jumping-off place.

1847 W. I. Paulding in J. K. & W. I. Paulding Amer. Comedies 197 I have hunted all over them parts, almost clean out to the jumping off place of creation.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) x. 70 It is the jumping-off place of Arctic navigators—our last point of communication with the outside world.

1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xv. 266 He had come to a jumping-off place in his life—why had they not let him jump?

1900 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/2 If we may borrow a figure from South African politics, the Pamirs are a ‘jumping off place’ for the Russian invaders of Afghanistan and India.

1909 F. Ash Trip to Mars xvii. 131 A narrow platform which had been erected as a ‘jumping-off place’ for fliers.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 14/2 The Governments demanded that their aeroplanes should be transported in crates, or towed with folded wings to their jumping-off places.

1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 37 Today the nation would be equally amazed if a man of his ability thought it worth his while to prefer the woolsack even to the stool of an office boy as a jumping-off place for his ambition.

1953 F. Stark Coast of Incense 242 The way to carry out an adventure is to organize the jumping-off place as near to its borders as possible.

1964 D. Jenness Eskimo Admin. II. 14 Archdeacon Stuck described Herschel Island during the whaling period as ‘the world's last jumping-off place, where no law existed and no writs ran’.

jumping-off point n.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point

terminus a quo1549

starting place1570

terma1628

salient motion1664

salient pointa1682

punctum saliens1695

starting point1782

Adam and Eve1793

starting ground1802

point of departure1804

baseline1836

point de départ1848

zero1849

start point1860

jumping-board1878

jumping-off board1914

jumping-off point1927

starting block1932

square one1952

1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art i. 13 An emotional reaction as the sole jumping-off point.

1958 G. Lascelles in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz viii. 100 It is not unnatural..for New York to have been the proving ground and the jumping-off point for a new sort of music.

jumping-off spot n.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey

start1610

jumping-off ground1897

jumping-off spot1909

jumping-off board1914

1909 Daily Chron. 8 Sept. 1/4 To reach the neighbourhood of Cape Columbia.., his elected jumping-off spot for the Pole.

1966 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 23/1 Prince Rupert..is a jumping-off spot for the Queen Charlotte Islands.

jumping-pole n. a long pole used in jumping long distances or in making pole-vaults.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > pole vault > pole-vaulter > pole

pole1868

jumping-pole1873

1873 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) vi. 47 We..jumped loads of ditches, and when we came to a very large one we made a bridge of our jumping poles.

1903 A. Westcott Life & Lett. B. F. Westcott I. 322 The learned professor and canon, with a great jumping-pole in his hand, leaping from rock to rock.

1972 Listener 31 Aug. 274/2 We had jumping-poles and we jumped from one rock to another.

jumping-powder n. a slang name for a stimulant taken by a rider to nerve him for jumping.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant > specific

musk1394

jumping-powder1826

1826 Sporting Mag. 17 374 The fences come very quick in Shropshire, and a little jumping-powder is often found useful.

1858 ‘Scrutator’ Master of Hounds (1864) 91 I have not yet had my glass of jumping powder.

jumping-sheet n. a stout sheet into which persons may jump from a burning building.

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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > means of > means of saving life > person jumping from building

jumping-sheet1846

life net1888

1846 Mechanics' Mag. 44 228 The canvass escape alluded to..is the ‘jumping sheet’ of the philanthropic Captain Manby.

jumping-wire n. on a submarine: see quot. 1974.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > specific equipment on submarine

breathing tube1800

jumping-wire1919

snorkel1944

snort1944

1919 Jane's Fighting Ships 318 Jumping wires were added to French submarines.

1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall iii. 73 ‘Did you notice how many jumping-wires she had?’ ‘That's the wire that runs from bow to stern over the conning-tower, isn't it?’ ‘That's right. Did she have one or two?’

1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies xv. 223 Her jumping-wire—the thick cable designed to slice through undersea objects like mine moorings—which runs from bow to stern via the conning-tower.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

jumpingadj.

/ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/

Etymology: < jump v. + -ing suffix².

That jumps, in various senses of the verb. jumping cat n. see cat n.¹ 13e.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective]

leaping?a1400

jumping1567

saltant1601

vaultinga1616

salient1646

saltitant1654

springing1658

boundinga1667

saltating1852

upleaping1867

1567 [see jumpingly adv. at Derivatives].

1611 Bible (King James) Nahum iii. 2 The noise of..the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 416 They can very well..abide the jumping waves of the Seas.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 225 There is..what seamen call a jumping, sea [1853 jumping sea].

1899 19th Cent. Oct. 692 The worship of the Jumping Cat, and the appeal to the man in the street.

Compounds

C1. In names of animals characterized by their jumping or springing movement.

jumping-beetle n. an insect destructive to turnips, etc.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > member of

jumping-beetle1817

pine bark beetle1840

pine beetle1857

1817 Blackwood's Mag. 2 235 His turnips are devoured by the jumping beetle.

jumping-bug n. an insect of the family Halticoridæ.

jumping deer n. either of two North American animals, the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, or the mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > family Antilocapridae (pronghorn antelope)

mazame1775

antelope1805

jumping deer1806

Missouri antelope1806

cabrie1807

prong-horned antelopea1815

pronghorn1823

kaama1824

prongbuck1834

prongdoe1890

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Odocoileus > Odocoileus hemionus (mule deer)

fallow deer1584

mule deer1805

jumping deer1806

muley1959

1806 A. Henry Jrnl. 14 July (1988) I. 203 Herds of Cabriee or Jumping Deer were always in sight.

1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River II. 364 The jumping-deer, or chevreuil,..frequent the vicinity of the mountains in considerable numbers.

1908 J. W. Tyrrell Across Sub-Arctics of Canada (ed. 3) xxi. 243 Jumping Deer are found in more or less abundance throughout the timbered country about southern parts of the [Hudson] Bay.

1913 R. Brooke Coll. Poems (1918) p. lxxxv Along the red-gold beach are the tracks of various animals, mostly jumping-deer and caribou.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxxi. 265 The Mule deer is most common... In some parts of Canada the animal is called Jumping deer, this from its well known habit of progressing when alarmed in a series of immense leaps and bounds.

1961 R. P. Hobson Rancher takes Wife vii. 108 There were the tiny little white-tailed jumping deer that would make about four meals for one man.

jumping-hare n. a rodent quadruped of South Africa, Pedetes caffer or Helamys capensis, resembling the jerboa.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Pedetidae (jumping-hare)

mountain hare1785

springhare1822

springhaas1831

jumping-hare1839

leaping hare1849

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 513/2 This is the..Spring-Has or Jumping Hare of the Dutch.

jumping-jack n. U.S. a beetle of the family Elateridæ; a click- or spring-beetle.

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1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 416 There is scarcely an individual..to be found who is unacquainted with the ‘Spring-beetles’, or as they are often termed ‘jumping-Jacks’.

jumping-louse n. a flea-louse, a jumping plant-louse.

jumping-mouse n. (a) the American deermouse, Zapus hudsonius; (b) = jumping-rat n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Zapodidae (jumping-mouse)

seven sleeper1799

jumping-mouse1839

deer-mouse1840

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 509/2 Jumping Mice.

1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 41 The Labrador Jumping Mouse..is very common in the fur countries of North America.

jumping-mullet n. a catostomoid fish of North America, Moxostoma cervinum; also a gray mullet, Mugil albula.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > unspecified and miscellaneous types

sucker1753

jumping-mullet1767

buffalo-fish1774

buffalo1789

red horse1796

sucking carp1804

carpsucker1828

hogmolly1877

hogsucker1877

suckerel1888

hog mullet1889

1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 35 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Saw a mullet jump three times in a minute or two, which they generally do before they rest, so are called jumping-mullets.

jumping-rat n. a rodent of the family Dipodidæ.

jumping-shrew n. the elephant-shrew of Africa, an insectivorous quadruped of the family Macroscelididæ.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > miscellaneous types of

solenodon1840

mole shrew1871

jumping-shrew1900

1900 H. A. Bryden Animals Afr. ii. 16 The typical Cape jumping shrew has a long, proboscis-like nose, large ears, long, thin hind legs, which enable him to take enormous leaps for his size, and a long, rat-like tail.

1920 F. W. Fitzsimons Nat. Hist. S. Afr.: Mammals IV. 2 There are several species or kinds of Jumping or Elephant Shrews inhabiting South Africa.

1971 D. J. Potgieter et al. Animal Life S. Afr. 346/2 The elephant-shrews or jumping shrews (Macroscelidea) are insect-eaters, and the whole order is confined to Africa.

1912 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 582 Oriental Tree-Shrews and the African Jumping-Shrews.

jumping-spider n. one of the group of spiders which leap upon their prey, instead of spinning a web to catch it.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > family Attidae > member of

tick-spider1721

jumping-spider1803

zebra spider1806

saltigrade1840

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 454 The Jumping Spider..does not, like many others, take its prey by means of a net, but is constrained to seize them only by its own activity.

C2.

jumping-bean n. (a) the seed of a Mexican euphorbiaceous plant, which jumps about by reason of the movements of the larva of a tortricid moth ( Carpocapsa saltitans) enclosed within it ( Cent. Dict.); (b) a toy consisting of a small bean-shaped capsule containing a weight such as a lead ball which causes it to move unaided down a sloping surface.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant

jumping-seed1876

jumping-bean1889

jumping-egg1894

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others

spurc1450

cock1608

turnel1621

corala1625

house of cardsa1625

Jack-in-the-box1659

(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662

sucker1681

whirligig1686

playbook1694

card house1733

snapper1788

card castle1792

Aaron's bells?1795

Noah's Ark1807

Jacob's ladder1820

cat-stairs1825

daisy chain1841

beanbag1861

playboat1865

piñata1868

teething ring1872

weet-weet1878

tumble-over1883

water cracker1887

jumping-bean1889

play money1894

serpentin1894

comforter1898

pacifier1901

dummy1903

bubble water1904

yo-yo1915

paper airplane1921

snowstorm1926

titty1927

teaser1935

Slinky1948

teether1949

Mr Potato Head1952

squeeze toy1954

Frisbee1957

mobile1957

chew toy1959

water-rocket1961

Crazy Foam1965

playshop1967

war toy1973

waterball1974

pull-along1976

transformer1984

Aerobie1985

1889 Cent. Dict. Jumping-bean.

1896 Chambers's Jrnl. 18 Apr. 249 A new botanical curiosity..has lately been brought into notice in England under the name of ‘A Jumping Bean’.

1910 Boy's Own Paper 15 Jan. 256 Tommy (who has been watching the jumping beans for some time): ‘Oi'm waitin' to see them sticks walk.’

1972 F. Warner Maquettes 14 Along they go, like jumping beans from a toy factory.

1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 312 The wriggling larva of an olothreutid moth, Laspeyresia saltitans, is the activator of the Mexican ‘jumping bean’, the seed of a species of Croton.

jumping-betty n. a popular name of the Garden Balsam, Impatiens Balsamina, the seeds of which jump out of the elastic capsules when these are touched (Parish Sussex Gloss. 1875).

jumping-egg n. = jumping-bean n. (a).

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant

jumping-seed1876

jumping-bean1889

jumping-egg1894

1894 Sci. Afr. Dec. 28 The so-called jumping ‘eggs’ found round Cape Town.

jumping-jack n. a child's toy made out of the merry-thought of a fowl; a toy figure of a man, which is made to jump by being pulled with strings; also transferred: see quots.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy made from wishbone

skipjack1805

jumping-jack1883

skip-bone1901

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire

puppet1538

marionettea1645

pantine1748

supplejack1776

supple Tam1825

string-jack1863

jumping-jack1883

monkey on a stick1926

1883 E. E. Hale in Harper's Mag. Jan. 277/1 Barley-candy statuettes, jumping-jacks, and other..toys.

1888 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Deacon Brodie (rev. ed.) ii. v. 40 He was my butt, my ape, my jumping-jack.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 3/2 By sailors the crested penguin is known by the name of the ‘jumping jack’, from its habit of jumping from the water.

jumping-Johnny n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1865 Reader No. 140. 264/1 The plate-sawing machine called a Jumping Johnny.

jumping-seed n. = jumping-bean n. (a).

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant

jumping-seed1876

jumping-bean1889

jumping-egg1894

1876 Field & Forest 2 53 These so-called jumping seeds received from California.

1889 Wesley Naturalist III. 22 Those are the only ‘jumping seeds’ of which I had even heard until I met with these of Natal.

Derivatives

ˈjumpingly adv. in a jumping manner.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adverb] > in exact agreement

jump1539

jumpingly1567

jumplya1586

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adverb] > by jumps or steps

jumpingly1567

stepwise1971

the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adverb] > like steps

step-fashion1748

jumpingly1855

stepwise1888

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Aiiij^v Do not imitate So iumpingly, so precyselie And step, for step so strayte.

1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 388 This amphitheatre slopes roughly, jumpingly down to a river.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	jumping
释义	jumpingn. /ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/ Etymology: < jump v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of jump v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] leapingc1000 loupingc1440 loping1483 springing?1530 vaulting1531 saltion1541 jumping1565 exultation1599 bounding1607 exilition1646 saltation1646 salture1656 saliency1664 salitiona1682 upleaping1867 jumpery1882 the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > of land > summary claim-jumping1846 jumping1889 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Saltatio, daunsyng, iumpyng. 1568 Bible (Bishops') Nahum iii. 2 The praunsing of horses and the iumping of charrets. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 190 There was either a strange jumping of good Wits, or Democritus was a sorry Plagiary. 1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 Apr. 73 An organized and systematic ‘jumping’ of the claims of the men whose title rests on this fraud. 1901 N.E.D. at Jumping Mod. Newsp. The jumping was exceptionally good. Compounds jumping-board n. a spring-board; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > aids to leaping or jumping risea1616 leap-staffc1626 springboard?1780 jumping-board1878 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 1878 H. H. Jackson Bits Trav. at Home 53 There are public gardens..with little ponds, and boats, and targets, and jumping-boards. 1909 Athenæum 21 Aug. 218/2 A jumping-board for the imagination to spring from. jumping ground n. ΚΠ 1900 Daily News 21 May 3/1 To achieve the independence of the Republics, and from that jumping-ground begin anew. jumping jockey n. = jump jockey n. at jump- comb. form . ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > types of feather1760 lightweight1773 welter1804 steeple hunter1830 a bad waster1833 steeplechaser1837 heavyweight1857 stoner1862 roper1870 point-to-pointer1929 jumping jockey1947 jump jockey1970 1947 W. G. Bebbington Rogues go Racing xviii. 115 There are some [jockeys] who are known to me as habitual gamblers. Particularly is this so with certain of our ‘jumping’ jockeys. jumping-net n. a stout circular net into which one may jump to escape from a burning building. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 405/2 The Jumping Net is made of stout tarred hemp rope. jumping-off board n. = jumping-board n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey start1610 jumping-off ground1897 jumping-off spot1909 jumping-off board1914 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 1914 Eng. Rev. Sept. 237 Salonika..was to be the German jumping-off board to Asia Minor. 1931 Musical Times June 497/2 His studies abroad had given him a stock of admirably nurtured gifts, but no jumping-off board such as that offered by a career in an English institution. jumping-off ground n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey start1610 jumping-off ground1897 jumping-off spot1909 jumping-off board1914 1897 Daily News 24 Feb. 5/5 The strip of territory on the Transvaal border, which Mr. Stead called..the ‘jumping-off ground’. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xi. 82 That's absolutely the best jumping-off ground for the new life. 1959 P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski vi. 74 Tangiers is a convenient jumping-off ground. jumping-off place n. (a) a place at which one jumps off from a conveyance or alights at the end of a journey, or from which one jumps off into the region beyond; also transferred and figurative; (b) North American a place regarded as being the farthest limit of civilization or settlement; a very remote place; the extreme limit of the earth; also figurative; (c) a starting-point for aircraft or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place utmostc825 world-endOE world's endc1275 utteresta1300 utmostsa1382 uttermost1382 uttermosta1390 arsea1600 apogee1670 jumping-off place1826 Timbuctoo1863 arse-end1896 ass-end1960 society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > starting-off point for aircraft jumping-off place1909 1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 366 Being, as they phrase it, the ‘jumping off place’, it is necessarily the resort of desperate, wicked, and strange creatures who wish to fly away from poverty, infamy, and the laws. 1828 A. Sherburne Mem. (1831) xi. 234 Ilean point was denominated the ‘jumping-off place’. 1834 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 68 Yarmouth, the jumping-off place of Nova Scotia. 1834 H. M. Brackenridge Recoll. x. 111 I had no jumping off or jumping up place, like those who prepare their exordium and perorations, and leave the body of the speech to take care of itself. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 64 Where shall I find words suitable to describe the peculiarities of that unholy spot? 'Tis, in fact, the jumping-off place. 1847 W. I. Paulding in J. K. & W. I. Paulding Amer. Comedies 197 I have hunted all over them parts, almost clean out to the jumping off place of creation. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) x. 70 It is the jumping-off place of Arctic navigators—our last point of communication with the outside world. 1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xv. 266 He had come to a jumping-off place in his life—why had they not let him jump? 1900 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/2 If we may borrow a figure from South African politics, the Pamirs are a ‘jumping off place’ for the Russian invaders of Afghanistan and India. 1909 F. Ash Trip to Mars xvii. 131 A narrow platform which had been erected as a ‘jumping-off place’ for fliers. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 14/2 The Governments demanded that their aeroplanes should be transported in crates, or towed with folded wings to their jumping-off places. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 37 Today the nation would be equally amazed if a man of his ability thought it worth his while to prefer the woolsack even to the stool of an office boy as a jumping-off place for his ambition. 1953 F. Stark Coast of Incense 242 The way to carry out an adventure is to organize the jumping-off place as near to its borders as possible. 1964 D. Jenness Eskimo Admin. II. 14 Archdeacon Stuck described Herschel Island during the whaling period as ‘the world's last jumping-off place, where no law existed and no writs ran’. jumping-off point n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art i. 13 An emotional reaction as the sole jumping-off point. 1958 G. Lascelles in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz viii. 100 It is not unnatural..for New York to have been the proving ground and the jumping-off point for a new sort of music. jumping-off spot n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > starting-point of a journey start1610 jumping-off ground1897 jumping-off spot1909 jumping-off board1914 1909 Daily Chron. 8 Sept. 1/4 To reach the neighbourhood of Cape Columbia.., his elected jumping-off spot for the Pole. 1966 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 23/1 Prince Rupert..is a jumping-off spot for the Queen Charlotte Islands. jumping-pole n. a long pole used in jumping long distances or in making pole-vaults. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > pole vault > pole-vaulter > pole pole1868 jumping-pole1873 1873 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) vi. 47 We..jumped loads of ditches, and when we came to a very large one we made a bridge of our jumping poles. 1903 A. Westcott Life & Lett. B. F. Westcott I. 322 The learned professor and canon, with a great jumping-pole in his hand, leaping from rock to rock. 1972 Listener 31 Aug. 274/2 We had jumping-poles and we jumped from one rock to another. jumping-powder n. a slang name for a stimulant taken by a rider to nerve him for jumping. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant > specific musk1394 jumping-powder1826 1826 Sporting Mag. 17 374 The fences come very quick in Shropshire, and a little jumping-powder is often found useful. 1858 ‘Scrutator’ Master of Hounds (1864) 91 I have not yet had my glass of jumping powder. jumping-sheet n. a stout sheet into which persons may jump from a burning building. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > means of > means of saving life > person jumping from building jumping-sheet1846 life net1888 1846 Mechanics' Mag. 44 228 The canvass escape alluded to..is the ‘jumping sheet’ of the philanthropic Captain Manby. jumping-wire n. on a submarine: see quot. 1974. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > specific equipment on submarine breathing tube1800 jumping-wire1919 snorkel1944 snort1944 1919 Jane's Fighting Ships 318 Jumping wires were added to French submarines. 1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall iii. 73 ‘Did you notice how many jumping-wires she had?’ ‘That's the wire that runs from bow to stern over the conning-tower, isn't it?’ ‘That's right. Did she have one or two?’ 1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies xv. 223 Her jumping-wire—the thick cable designed to slice through undersea objects like mine moorings—which runs from bow to stern via the conning-tower. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2021). jumpingadj. /ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ/ Etymology: < jump v. + -ing suffix². That jumps, in various senses of the verb. jumping cat n. see cat n.¹ 13e. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] leaping?a1400 jumping1567 saltant1601 vaultinga1616 salient1646 saltitant1654 springing1658 boundinga1667 saltating1852 upleaping1867 1567 [see jumpingly adv. at Derivatives]. 1611 Bible (King James) Nahum iii. 2 The noise of..the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets. View more context for this quotation 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 416 They can very well..abide the jumping waves of the Seas. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 225 There is..what seamen call a jumping, sea [1853 jumping sea]. 1899 19th Cent. Oct. 692 The worship of the Jumping Cat, and the appeal to the man in the street. Compounds C1. In names of animals characterized by their jumping or springing movement. jumping-beetle n. an insect destructive to turnips, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > member of jumping-beetle1817 pine bark beetle1840 pine beetle1857 1817 Blackwood's Mag. 2 235 His turnips are devoured by the jumping beetle. jumping-bug n. an insect of the family Halticoridæ. jumping deer n. either of two North American animals, the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, or the mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > family Antilocapridae (pronghorn antelope) mazame1775 antelope1805 jumping deer1806 Missouri antelope1806 cabrie1807 prong-horned antelopea1815 pronghorn1823 kaama1824 prongbuck1834 prongdoe1890 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Odocoileus > Odocoileus hemionus (mule deer) fallow deer1584 mule deer1805 jumping deer1806 muley1959 1806 A. Henry Jrnl. 14 July (1988) I. 203 Herds of Cabriee or Jumping Deer were always in sight. 1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River II. 364 The jumping-deer, or chevreuil,..frequent the vicinity of the mountains in considerable numbers. 1908 J. W. Tyrrell Across Sub-Arctics of Canada (ed. 3) xxi. 243 Jumping Deer are found in more or less abundance throughout the timbered country about southern parts of the [Hudson] Bay. 1913 R. Brooke Coll. Poems (1918) p. lxxxv Along the red-gold beach are the tracks of various animals, mostly jumping-deer and caribou. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxxi. 265 The Mule deer is most common... In some parts of Canada the animal is called Jumping deer, this from its well known habit of progressing when alarmed in a series of immense leaps and bounds. 1961 R. P. Hobson Rancher takes Wife vii. 108 There were the tiny little white-tailed jumping deer that would make about four meals for one man. jumping-hare n. a rodent quadruped of South Africa, Pedetes caffer or Helamys capensis, resembling the jerboa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Pedetidae (jumping-hare) mountain hare1785 springhare1822 springhaas1831 jumping-hare1839 leaping hare1849 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 513/2 This is the..Spring-Has or Jumping Hare of the Dutch. jumping-jack n. U.S. a beetle of the family Elateridæ; a click- or spring-beetle. ΚΠ 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 416 There is scarcely an individual..to be found who is unacquainted with the ‘Spring-beetles’, or as they are often termed ‘jumping-Jacks’. jumping-louse n. a flea-louse, a jumping plant-louse. jumping-mouse n. (a) the American deermouse, Zapus hudsonius; (b) = jumping-rat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Zapodidae (jumping-mouse) seven sleeper1799 jumping-mouse1839 deer-mouse1840 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 509/2 Jumping Mice. 1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 41 The Labrador Jumping Mouse..is very common in the fur countries of North America. jumping-mullet n. a catostomoid fish of North America, Moxostoma cervinum; also a gray mullet, Mugil albula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > unspecified and miscellaneous types sucker1753 jumping-mullet1767 buffalo-fish1774 buffalo1789 red horse1796 sucking carp1804 carpsucker1828 hogmolly1877 hogsucker1877 suckerel1888 hog mullet1889 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 35 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Saw a mullet jump three times in a minute or two, which they generally do before they rest, so are called jumping-mullets. jumping-rat n. a rodent of the family Dipodidæ. jumping-shrew n. the elephant-shrew of Africa, an insectivorous quadruped of the family Macroscelididæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > miscellaneous types of solenodon1840 mole shrew1871 jumping-shrew1900 1900 H. A. Bryden Animals Afr. ii. 16 The typical Cape jumping shrew has a long, proboscis-like nose, large ears, long, thin hind legs, which enable him to take enormous leaps for his size, and a long, rat-like tail. 1920 F. W. Fitzsimons Nat. Hist. S. Afr.: Mammals IV. 2 There are several species or kinds of Jumping or Elephant Shrews inhabiting South Africa. 1971 D. J. Potgieter et al. Animal Life S. Afr. 346/2 The elephant-shrews or jumping shrews (Macroscelidea) are insect-eaters, and the whole order is confined to Africa. 1912 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 582 Oriental Tree-Shrews and the African Jumping-Shrews. 1912 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 582 Oriental Tree-Shrews and the African Jumping-Shrews. jumping-spider n. one of the group of spiders which leap upon their prey, instead of spinning a web to catch it. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > family Attidae > member of tick-spider1721 jumping-spider1803 zebra spider1806 saltigrade1840 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 454 The Jumping Spider..does not, like many others, take its prey by means of a net, but is constrained to seize them only by its own activity. C2. jumping-bean n. (a) the seed of a Mexican euphorbiaceous plant, which jumps about by reason of the movements of the larva of a tortricid moth ( Carpocapsa saltitans) enclosed within it ( Cent. Dict.); (b) a toy consisting of a small bean-shaped capsule containing a weight such as a lead ball which causes it to move unaided down a sloping surface. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant jumping-seed1876 jumping-bean1889 jumping-egg1894 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others spurc1450 cock1608 turnel1621 corala1625 house of cardsa1625 Jack-in-the-box1659 (Prince) Rupert's Drops1662 sucker1681 whirligig1686 playbook1694 card house1733 snapper1788 card castle1792 Aaron's bells?1795 Noah's Ark1807 Jacob's ladder1820 cat-stairs1825 daisy chain1841 beanbag1861 playboat1865 piñata1868 teething ring1872 weet-weet1878 tumble-over1883 water cracker1887 jumping-bean1889 play money1894 serpentin1894 comforter1898 pacifier1901 dummy1903 bubble water1904 yo-yo1915 paper airplane1921 snowstorm1926 titty1927 teaser1935 Slinky1948 teether1949 Mr Potato Head1952 squeeze toy1954 Frisbee1957 mobile1957 chew toy1959 water-rocket1961 Crazy Foam1965 playshop1967 war toy1973 waterball1974 pull-along1976 transformer1984 Aerobie1985 1889 Cent. Dict. Jumping-bean. 1896 Chambers's Jrnl. 18 Apr. 249 A new botanical curiosity..has lately been brought into notice in England under the name of ‘A Jumping Bean’. 1910 Boy's Own Paper 15 Jan. 256 Tommy (who has been watching the jumping beans for some time): ‘Oi'm waitin' to see them sticks walk.’ 1972 F. Warner Maquettes 14 Along they go, like jumping beans from a toy factory. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 312 The wriggling larva of an olothreutid moth, Laspeyresia saltitans, is the activator of the Mexican ‘jumping bean’, the seed of a species of Croton. jumping-betty n. a popular name of the Garden Balsam, Impatiens Balsamina, the seeds of which jump out of the elastic capsules when these are touched (Parish Sussex Gloss. 1875). jumping-egg n. = jumping-bean n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant jumping-seed1876 jumping-bean1889 jumping-egg1894 1894 Sci. Afr. Dec. 28 The so-called jumping ‘eggs’ found round Cape Town. jumping-jack n. a child's toy made out of the merry-thought of a fowl; a toy figure of a man, which is made to jump by being pulled with strings; also transferred: see quots. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy made from wishbone skipjack1805 jumping-jack1883 skip-bone1901 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > movable by string or wire puppet1538 marionettea1645 pantine1748 supplejack1776 supple Tam1825 string-jack1863 jumping-jack1883 monkey on a stick1926 1883 E. E. Hale in Harper's Mag. Jan. 277/1 Barley-candy statuettes, jumping-jacks, and other..toys. 1888 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Deacon Brodie (rev. ed.) ii. v. 40 He was my butt, my ape, my jumping-jack. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 3/2 By sailors the crested penguin is known by the name of the ‘jumping jack’, from its habit of jumping from the water. jumping-Johnny n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1865 Reader No. 140. 264/1 The plate-sawing machine called a Jumping Johnny. jumping-seed n. = jumping-bean n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > seed of particular plant jumping-seed1876 jumping-bean1889 jumping-egg1894 1876 Field & Forest 2 53 These so-called jumping seeds received from California. 1889 Wesley Naturalist III. 22 Those are the only ‘jumping seeds’ of which I had even heard until I met with these of Natal. Derivatives ˈjumpingly adv. in a jumping manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adverb] > in exact agreement jump1539 jumpingly1567 jumplya1586 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adverb] > by jumps or steps jumpingly1567 stepwise1971 the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adverb] > like steps step-fashion1748 jumpingly1855 stepwise1888 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Aiiij^v Do not imitate So iumpingly, so precyselie And step, for step so strayte. 1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 388 This amphitheatre slopes roughly, jumpingly down to a river. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1565adj.1567
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