Jumper
['dʒʌmpə] or ['dʒʌmpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump.
(noun.) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing.
(noun.) a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen.
(noun.) a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections.
(noun.) a coverall worn by children.
(noun.) an athlete who competes at jumping; 'he is one hell of a jumper'.
(noun.) a person who jumps; 'as the jumper neared the ground he lost control'; 'the jumper's parachute opened'.
Checked by Clifton--From WordNet
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.
Typist: Molly
Examples
- Robert Jordan took the cigarette and put it in the breast pocket of his blue mechanic jumper. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You are the first jumper I ever saw among the red men of Barsoom, I said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She wore no hat in the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Furthermore, I could see from the shortness of his legs that the brute himself was no jumper and probably no runner. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He wiped his hands on his jumper and grinned. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Of the centre table I could make nothing, until in your description of Gilchrist you mentioned that he was a long-distance jumper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He put this jumper slyly in contact with the wires--and just four lamps went out on the section he tampered with. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Ruben