(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.
Saunter
Definition:
(n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
(n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
(2) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
(3) I can see him very clearly now, leaving Magdalen and sauntering up the High Street, looking about him in his friendly but slightly abstracted fashion.
(4) "We call them our girls," says David Strachan affectionately, watching the line of bright-eyed brown Jersey cows saunter obligingly from their cubicles – their indoor home during the chilly winter months – and into the adjoining milking parlour.
(5) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
(6) They saunter off to a standing ovation accompanied by much appreciative hat waving.
(7) 9.03pm GMT 62 min: Rafael bowls Alonso to the floor as the Sunderland defender saunters up and down the left wing.
(8) Then the lock passed the ball down to Woodcock who sauntered straight through the middle.
(9) This is a format where two players who pride themselves on sauntering through bars in stupid clothes compete to seduce REAL women in REAL clubs, judged by a panel of "expert pick-up analysts".
(10) She has been banned from attending Ukip meetings since publishing last month’s cover lampooning Farage , his beaming face flanked by Al Murray and the Prophet Zebadiah with a shared speech bubble: “I’m the joke candidate.” This kind of strong-arm behaviour seems par for the course: two young chaps saunter in, looking very different from tonight’s retired-double-glazing-magnate-with-small-brushy-moustache style.
(11) Brazil deserved to win, though the Dutch could legitimately claim that Bebeto's goal should have been chalked off, Romario sauntering around offside in the build-up.
(12) They had just confessed to war crimes, to heinous acts, and I had videotaped it, and then they just sauntered off into the woods.
(13) Occasionally he makes geography itself impossible – the Bohemian seacoast in A Winter's Tale , or the lion that saunters through Arden in As You Like It – but even these, it might be argued, are testament to the boundlessness of his imagination.
(14) This pith squirt stings because we want our politicians to be motivated by high ideals and compassion and not to secretly seethe every time Harry Styles impeccably saunters through the public mind with hair that gently binds his scalp to the heavens and mankind to the angels.
(15) Robben, replacing Mandzukic in the existential vagueness down the right, takes his time, saunters into the area, cuts inside Adriano, and curls a peach into the top-left corner.
(16) A s he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul's most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions.
(17) Poise was restored as Charlotte Higgins deboulé-d around Powell and Pressberger's The Red Shoes and Jonathan Haynes kissed the ring of The Princess Bride , before Tony Paley sauntered in and ordered two and half hours of straight up Rio Bravo .
(18) On one occasion, as I was interviewing Le Pen père in his study (covered in nautical memorabilia, gorgeous view of the capital), Marine came sauntering in.
(19) So when Spirescu sauntered through with a woolly cap pulled down over his ears and admitted it was his first time in the UK and that he was here to work, he was quickly surrounded by journalists – as well as the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz.
(20) That Blair and his ministers still saunter among us, gathering money wherever they go, is a withering indictment of a one-sided system of international justice: a system whose hypocrisies Tutu has exposed.