jumper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: jump=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

jumper, n. 

•  One who, or that which, jumps.  [1913 Webster]
•  A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.  [1913 Webster]
•  A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.  J. F. Cooper.  [1913 Webster]
•  The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.  [1913 Webster]
•  A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.  [1913 Webster]
•  spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.  [1913 Webster]

Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

jumper, n. [See 1st Jump.].

•  A loose upper garment  [1913 Webster]
•  A sleeveless one-piece dress, either with full shoulders or straps, sometimes with only the front part of the bodice, usually worn by women with a blouse underneath.  [PJC]

jumper, n. 

•  A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  a short wire, or a small plastic object containing such a short wire, used to optionally connect or disconnect two points in an electronic circuit, so as to include or exclude portions of the circuit and thus modify the function of the circuit. Such jumpers are much used to adapt add-on circuit boards for different conditions or functions within a computer.

  "The contacts to which jumpers connect in commercially produced circuit boards are typically two closely spaced short stiff wires standing perpendicular to the plane of the circuit board, and the jumper has two holes with spacing identical to that of the contacts wires, so as to allow convenient insertion or removal of the jumper."  [PJC]

jumper, v. t. 

 to insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit). See 2nd jumper.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jumper, n.
1 a knitted pullover.
2 a loose outer jacket of canvas etc. worn by sailors.
3 US a pinafore dress.

jumper, n.
1 a person or animal that jumps.
2 Electr. a short wire used to make or break a circuit.
3 a rope made fast to keep a yard, mast, etc., from jumping.
4 a heavy chisel-ended iron bar for drilling blast-holes.

THESAURUS

jumper

amateur athlete, archer, athlete, baby clothes, baby linen, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, catcher, center, coach, competitor, creepers, cricketer, deep-sea diver, defensive lineman, diver, end, flea, footballer, free diver, frog, frogman, games-player, gamester, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, guard, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, infielder, jackrabbit, jock, jumpers, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, layette, leaper, lineman, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, parachute jumper, pearl diver, player, plunger, pole vaulter, poloist, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, rompers, salmon, scuba diver, skater, skin diver, sky diver, snorkel diver, sport, sportsman, stag, sunfisher, swaddle, swaddling clothes, tackle, tailback, timber topper, toxophilite, vaulter, wingback, wrestler

ROGET THESAURUS

jumper

Vehicle

N vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van, common carrier, wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry, truck, tram, cariole, carriole, limber, tumbrel, pontoon, barrow, wheel barrow, hand barrow, perambulator, Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair, chaise, palankeen, palanquin, litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance, black Maria, conestoga wagon, conestoga wain, jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel, hobbyhorse, go-cart, cycle, bicycle, bike, two-wheeler, tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle, equipage, turn-out, coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka, berlin, sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse, jaunting car, outside car, dandi, doolie, dooly, munchil, palki, roller skates, skate, runabout, ski, tonjon, vettura, post chaise, diligence, stage, stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach, glass coach, stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom, shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky, dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random, tandem, shandredhan, char-a-bancs, motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan, wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer, golf cart, electric wagon, taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab, station wagon, family car, motorcycle, motor bike, side car, van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus, truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor- trailer, road train, articulated vehicle, racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car, bob, bobsled, bobsleigh, cutter, double ripper, double runner, jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan, train, accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train, 1st class train, 2nd class train, 3rd class train, 1st class carriage, 2nd class carriage, 3rd class carriage, 1st class compartment, 2nd class compartment, 3rd class compartment, rolling stock, horse box, cattle truck, baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car, surface car, tram car, trolley car, box car, box wagon, horse car, bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express, luggage van, mail, mail car, mail van, shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe, spade, spaddle, loy, spud, pitchfork, post hole digger, tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller, pile driver, crane, wrecking crane.