What's the difference between jumper and lumper?

Jumper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, jumps.
  • (n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.
  • (n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
  • (n.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
  • (n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
  • (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
  • (n.) A loose upper garment
  • (n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
  • (n.) A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oh but Chalmers does find Rashard Lewis, who makes a jumper.
  • (2) 1.44am BST Heat 19-30 Spurs, 11:00 remaining in 2nd quarter Splitter assists Ginobili who hits a jumper, this Spurs run continues.
  • (3) She was followed by Paralympic long jumper Mami Sato, whose home town was hit by the tsunami, and powerfully described the power of sport to inspire.
  • (4) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
  • (5) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
  • (6) The flagship West London Free School, which was set up by journalist Toby Young, for example, insists parents buy school blazers priced from £37.50, jumpers from £19, ties at £4.80 and bags from £16, from approved supplier Billings & Edmonds.
  • (7) The prevention and treatment of 'jumper's knee' requires a high degree of cooperation among trainers, doctors and athletes.
  • (8) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
  • (9) I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was in my headphones, and then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper fondling my breasts," she said.
  • (10) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
  • (11) "Let's be honest, money talks," says the former triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, who now sits on the London 2012 board.
  • (12) During this period the authors treated about 150 cases of jumper's knee, of which 34 cases were treated by operation.
  • (13) She's a completely unlikely looking 58 and is sitting in front of a stark all-white backdrop simply dressed all in black – black jeans and a black jumper that emphasises her extraordinary swan-like neck – and she is completely focused.
  • (14) 2.37am BST Heat 51-50 Spurs, 8:53 left in the third quarter James makes a jumper, Leonard misses a three, Lewis makes a two pointer.
  • (15) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
  • (16) She went to the grammar school he never did, wearing school jumpers hand-knitted from magazine patterns.
  • (17) I fished my mobile out of my pocket and wrapped it in an AUF jumper that had been left on the rock.
  • (18) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
  • (19) Winmar, who played 251 AFL games, made a stand against racism in 1993 when he lifted his jumper and pointed to his skin after being jeered by Collingwood fans at Victoria Park.
  • (20) 3.02am BST Heat 38-42 Spurs, 5:20, second quarter And Ginobili steals on the next possession, hey here's something good, he gets the ball into Tony Parker's capable hands and the point guard hits a two-pointer, Lewis misses a jumper on the other end and Duncan turns a Diaw steal into a dunk and now it's Miami's turn to take a time out.

Lumper


Definition:

  • (n.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.
  • (n.) One who lumps.
  • (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certificates showing the occupation on fisherman (or similar term) or lumper were extracted.
  • (2) The cysteine residues are distributed on six CNBr fragments of the catalytic domain [Vogel and Lumper (1984) Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol.
  • (3) The structural data required to complete the sequences published previously [Vogel, Kaiser, Witt & Lumper (1985) Biol.
  • (4) 1) While it is possible only one type of second-degree AV block exists electrophysiologically, the available data do not justify such a conclusion and it would seem more appropriate to remain a "splitter," and advocate separation and definition of multiple mechanisms, than to be a "lumper," and embrace a unitary concept.
  • (5) There was no indication that the mortality pattern differed significantly between the two groups or from that of the community from which the lumpers and fishermen came.
  • (6) There are two main schools of thought: the "lumpers" do not recognize specific syndromes within the spectrum of mitochondrial "cytopathies", the "splitters" try to identify specific syndromes while recognizing the existence of borderline cases.

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