What's the difference between jump and plunge?

Jump


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.
  • (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.

Plunge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
  • (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
  • (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
  • (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
  • (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
  • (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
  • (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
  • (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  • (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
  • (3) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
  • (4) For some people, free cash will persuade them to take the plunge.
  • (5) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
  • (6) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (7) Thus: wanting to cut public spending more slowly than the coalition plans isn't about protecting state activity or putting debt on future generations, it's about not plunging back into recession, Dublin-style.
  • (8) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (9) The City regulator also used its Prudential Risk Outlook to reveal that the UK's biggest banks have been told they must have enough capital to withstand a plunge back into recession in the next four years.
  • (10) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
  • (11) The surprise return of Saleh last month, after recovering in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, has plunged the country into deeper uncertainty and sharpened the differences between pro- and anti-government camps.
  • (12) We’re being transparent about what we are doing and what we’re not doing, so all the Iguala investigations will be checked, reviewed and assessed by an independent group of experts we’ve called in from the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights .” Asked whether Peña Nieto – whose approval rating recently plunged to 39% – had the support and strength needed to address the security crisis, Gómez Robledo said: “He has the intelligence, the conviction, the strength and the youth to face all of the challenges.
  • (13) Campa was speaking as the Ibex index of Madrid's most traded stocks plunged for a second day and the cost of protecting investors against a default of Spanish debt reached a record high.
  • (14) A sub-index measuring new orders plunged to 52, the lowest since June 2009, from 58.5 in July.
  • (15) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
  • (16) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
  • (17) A three-week plunge has knocked about 30% off Chinese shares since mid-June.
  • (18) For every 1% increase in gas and electricity bills, it is estimated a further 40,000 households are plunged into fuel poverty.
  • (19) Share holdings were assumed to have plunged 20% in the two years of the test, leading to a cumulative rout of 36%.
  • (20) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.