What's the difference between jumper and pullover?

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.

Pullover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
  • (2) Only after training with a set of shirts that sampled the range of stimulus and response variation for "putting on pullover shirts" was successful generalization observed.
  • (3) "I've got nothing against him if he does a good job," said Wout Van Bavel, a retired businessman in the obligatory orange pullover and shirt.
  • (4) Performance across eight nontrained, probe shirts was used to assess generalization of the skill "putting on pullover shirts."
  • (5) He is said to have been dressed in multiple layers of clothing, including pullovers, although it is summer in Serbia.
  • (6) So please, don't ponder whether Scotland will keep one of England's old pullovers and wear it tearfully around the house on rainy Sundays, having learned her lesson after a brief and unsatisfactory liaison with a wealthy Nordic state.
  • (7) Comforting blankets, fabric toys or forcibly applied pullovers may cause initial inoculation.
  • (8) They see themselves as wholesome, Midwestern folks who just adore rooting on their Cardinals in red pullover sweatshirts.
  • (9) By this time, Freeman was widely known by his nickname "Fluff", apparently derived from his fondness for wearing a loose-fitting submariner's pullover given to him by his mother, Annie.
  • (10) The pullover shirt aid, the largest device, was stored in an adjoining playroom area.
  • (11) When Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general recently sentenced to 24 years for persecuting Serbs , arrived in Scheveningen in 2005, his erstwhile arch-enemy, the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, lent him a pullover because he was cold, according to Ljube Boskovski who spent three years there before being acquitted of war crimes.
  • (12) She can be seen in photographs looking rather fetching in a pullover patterned with the flags of the European nations.
  • (13) @LengelDavid October 26, 2013 I predict we will see lots of shots of 60-year-old women with their hair in a bonnet wearing red Cardinals pullovers.
  • (14) And if I tell you its pupils wear grey blazers with red trim, ties and V-necked pullovers, stand in obedient lines waiting for teachers to lead them into classrooms, and sometimes learn Latin, you probably envisage a leafy suburban school, patronised by affluent white families from expensive detached houses.
  • (15) Reading his work earlier this month at a conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Murray cuts a formidable figure – "the fattest major English-language poet since the 20-stone Ben Jonson", as a critic once bluntly put it – sporting a voluminous pullover and alternately perching a scruffy baseball cap and his spectacles on his domed head.
  • (16) Tying a pullover around your waist to hide the soiled patch behind your uniform in case the tissue leaks is a dead giveaway.