(n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
(v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
(v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
(v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
(v. t.) To join by a butt weld.
(v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
(v. t.) To bore with a jumper.
(n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
(n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.
(n.) The space traversed by a leap.
(n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
(n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
(a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
(adv.) Exactly; pat.
Example Sentences:
(1) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(2) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(3) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(4) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(6) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
(7) By 2014-15 that number had jumped to 16,500 and a rate of 345 per 100,000 people.
(8) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
(9) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
(10) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
(11) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(12) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(13) The intracerebroventricular injection of Tyr-Phe-NHOH alone (0.17 mumol, 60 micrograms) does not significantly modify the jump latency time as compared to the control.
(14) Abrupt withdrawal jumping behavior in morphine-dependent mice is accompanied by a decrease in brain dopamine turnover and an increase in brain dopamine level which parallel strain differences in jumping incidence.
(15) Another military veteran, Brett Puffenbarger, 29, said: “I jumped on Trump train fairly early on.
(16) In type V, dysrhythmic nystagmus develops and the visual line often jumps over several targets without fixation.
(17) Poor preparation of the jump may have contributed to the accidents.
(18) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
(19) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
(20) The treatment effects of continuous bite jumping with the Herbst appliance in the correction of Class II malocclusions have been analysed in previous investigations.
Obstacle
Definition:
(v.) That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(2) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(3) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(4) A major obstacle to the characterization of the latter two mechanisms has been the lack of suitable model systems expressing only a single nucleoside transport activity.
(5) These observations suggest that refractive anomalies such as anisometropia that limit high frequency spatial resolution and binocular integration can present a major obstacle to the postnatal development of binocular vision.
(6) The initiation of clinical trials on islet transplantation as a possible therapeutic approach for human diabetes had been blocked by 2 major obstacles.
(7) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
(8) Despite these obstacles, new technologies, coupled with educational efforts, should allow the computer to emerge as a crucial aid to clinicians in the decade ahead.
(9) Yet experience has disclosed an obstacle to understanding the relationship between cervical cancer and OC use--cervical cancer may be caused by the human papilloma virus transmitted by sexual intercourse.
(10) In this paper something is given of their evolution, diversity, aims and activities; and of the important role they now play in many instances, as well as some of the obstacles to collaboration, co-ordination and integration at different levels of operation--internationally, nationally and locally.
(11) It is no obstacle to perform pre- and postoperative radio- and chemotherapy.
(12) Obstacles to successful treatment include an erratic schedule, mistrust of authority, and uncooperative or aggressive behavior.
(13) One of the main obstacles for the introduction of PCR method to identify HIV1 proviral DNA in routine diagnostic laboratories is the use of radiolabelled oligodeoxynucleotide probes.
(14) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(15) She feared her chances of being offered a place would be diminished by a Brexit vote, and the practical considerations like a visa and funding would be more of an obstacle.
(16) It goes without saying that this won't be easy to achieve, and there are many obstacles to be overcome.
(17) Armstrong recognised no obstacle to his ambitions – not morality, not the law.
(18) Where foreign policy and defence are concerned, Britain’s desire to be taken very seriously is the chief obstacle to it being taken more seriously.
(19) The presence of calcifications within the thyroid cartilage is the major obstacle to US imaging of the larynx and is directly related to age; indeed, only 40% of subjects can be examined at the age of 70.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.