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Meaning:

Adverb:

  • obsolete exactly; precisely

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Noun:

  • A jumping move in a board game.
  • An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
  • An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  • An instance of propelling oneself into the air.
  • An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  • sports|horses An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
  • with ''on'' An early start or an advantage.
  • mathematics A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
  • intransitive To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
  • intransitive To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  • intransitive To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
  • intransitive To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
  • transitive To attack suddenly and violently.
  • transitive To force to jump.
  • transitive To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

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