(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.
Saltation
Definition:
(n.) A leaping or jumping.
(n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.
(n.) An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to new races.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the use of time-lapse microscopy to locate saltating particles prior to fixation and histochemical examination of the cells, structures of several kinds have been shown to move in this manner.
(2) Middlesevere cases (Hb 9-15 g%) showed in 57.2% an undulating and in 42.8% a saltatoring types of oscillation.
(3) The change in the orientation of pigment granule saltations following fertilization requires both a transient increase in the cytoplasmic concentration of Ca2+ and an elevation of cytoplasmic pH.
(4) Saltations in the unfertilized egg are very non-radial and are as likely to be directed toward the cortex as away.
(5) However, the appearance of saltations in such simple systems suggests that their appearance in a process as complex as biological evolution is not surprising.
(6) Bidirectional saltations are seen along the long axes of fully spread cells.
(7) The previous result of Rasminsky & Sears (1972) of delayed saltation in demyelinated nerve fibres was confirmed.
(8) In cases of severe fetal anemia (Hb less than 9 g%) we found at 64.2% a silent to narrowed undulating and at 21.4% saltatoring types of oscillations.
(9) It is suggested that such saltations may not represent more rapid rates of evolution but, rather, the persistence of evolutionary change in a given direction for a longer than normal period.
(10) Quantitation of vesicle saltations before and after fertilization demonstrates that while there is no significant difference in the speed or path-length of vesicle movement, there is a dramatic change in the orientation of these saltations.
(11) Immediately after injection, cells were recorded with a time-lapse video imaging system; later analysis of the tapes revealed that particles in cells injected with one of these antibodies (CG1, specific for CEF tropomyosin isoforms 1 and 3) showed a dramatic decrease in instantaneous speed while moving, distance moved per saltation, and proportion of time spent in motion.
(12) Saltations appear as a natural dynamical behavior in the evolution of simplistic information processing networks.
(13) Thus the 'larger vesicles' stopped moving at 25 degrees C, the small ones did not; both stopped at 18 degrees C. The 'small vesicles' continued to move actively after cell uptake of the polyanion poly-D-glutamic acid, while the saltations of the 'larger vesicles' were markedly slowed; both sets of vesicles stopped after uptake of ammonium chloride.
(14) Sequencing has revealed that the spacer DNA of X. laevis contains different kinds of simple DNA sequences, but no evidence has been found that spacer DNA once arose by saltation of a 15 bp segment.
(15) vignae revealed three categories of movement: a) general movement of cytoplasm, plus organelles, into the developing portions of the fungus during which the nuclei, in particular, maintained their characteristic position with remarkable constancy, b) relatively slow movements of various organelles such that they became displaced relative to one another and to the growing fungal tip, and c) erratic, rapid, saltations of small organelles over short distances.
(16) The co-transport of spectrin, actin, and calmodulin with cytomembranes undergoing rapid saltations departs from reported results of radioactive labeling experiments insofar as spectrin, actin, and calmodulin are not normally associated with rapidly transported membrane components in the latter studies.
(17) This transition must reflect underlying changes in the cellular structures necessary for pigment granule saltations.
(18) Trichocyst saltations end with either cortical insertion of the organelle, or return to cyclosis.
(19) Using acridine orange as a vital stain for acidic organelles, in combination with video-enhanced fluorescence microscopy, and subsequent immunolabeling with rabbit antibodies against ACTH, we have shown that these secretory granules move by saltations along the processes.
(20) This is the saltation phenomenon, and as presented in this theoretical note, it is a phenomenon which is easily accommodated by a theoretical rotation of space-time axes.