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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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