| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| jorum | (noun) a large drinking bowl | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a jorum will hold. | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| joss | (noun) a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol | - |
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| jostle | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostling |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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| jot | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jotting |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (verb) write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of | Synonyms: jot down |
| jotter | (noun) a small notebook for rough notes | - |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| joule | (noun) a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second | Synonyms: J, watt second |
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| jounce | (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, shock |
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| (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: bounce |
| journal | (noun) the part of the axle contained by a bearing | - |
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| (noun) a record book as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a periodical dedicated to a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: diary |
| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: daybook |
| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| journalism | (noun) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media | - |
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| (noun) newspapers and magazines collectively | Synonyms: news media |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| journalistically | (adverb) by journalists | - |
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| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| joust | (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: tilt |
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| (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
| jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| jovially | (adverb) in a jovial manner | - |
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| jowl | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| (noun) a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) | - |
| jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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| joy | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, pleasure |
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| (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness |
| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: rejoice |
| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: gladden |
| joyful | (adjective) full of or producing joy | - |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, jubilant |
| joyfully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: gleefully, joyously |
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| joyfulness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyousness |
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| joyless | (adjective) not experiencing or inspiring joy | - |
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| joylessly | (adverb) in a joyless manner; without joy | - |
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| joylessness | (noun) a feeling of dismal cheerlessness | - |
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| joyous | (adjective) full of or characterized by joy | - |
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| joyously | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: gleefully, joyfully |
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| joyousness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyfulness |
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| joyride | (noun) a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure | - |
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| (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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| jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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| jubilant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, joyful |
| jubilantly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, merrily, mirthfully |
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| jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
| jubilation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: exultation, rejoicing |
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| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: celebration |
| (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy |
| jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| judas | (noun) a one-way peephole in a door | - |
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| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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| (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
| (verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
| judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgmental | (adjective) depending on judgment | - |
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| judicable | (adjective) capable of being judged or decided | - |
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| judicatory | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicature, judicial system, judiciary |
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| judicature | (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: administration |
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| (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judgeship |
| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicial system, judiciary |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, tribunal |
| judicial | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: juridic, juridical |
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| (adjective) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge | - |
| (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice | - |
| judicially | (adverb) in a judicial manner | - |
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| (adverb) as ordered by a court | - |
| judiciary | (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: bench |
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| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system |
| judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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| judiciously | (adverb) in a judicious manner | - |
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| judiciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: sagaciousness, sagacity |
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| (noun) good judgment | - |
| judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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| jug | (noun) a large bottle with a narrow mouth | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jugful |
| (verb) stew in an earthenware jug | - |
| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
| jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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| jugful | (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jug |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
| (verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
| (verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
| (verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
| (verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
| juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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| jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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| (noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
| juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
| jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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| (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
| juice | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: succus |
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| (noun) the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking | - |
| (noun) electric current | - |
| (noun) energetic vitality | - |
| juiceless | (adjective) lacking juice | - |
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| (adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: dry |
| juicer | (noun) a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit | Synonyms: juice reamer, reamer |
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| (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, toper |
| juiciness | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: succulence, succulency |
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| juicy | (adjective) abounding in juice | - |
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| (adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: fat |
| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| jujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujutsu |
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| juju | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, voodoo |
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| (noun) the power associated with a juju | - |
| jujube | (noun) chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat) | - |
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| (noun) dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees | Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube |
| (noun) spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba |
| jujutsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujitsu |
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| juke | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: fake |
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| (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint |
| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| julep | (noun) bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice | Synonyms: mint julep |
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| julienne | (noun) a vegetable cut into thin strips | Synonyms: julienne vegetable |
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| (noun) a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables | - |
| (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
| jumbal | (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumble |
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| jumble | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, patchwork |
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| (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumbal |
| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| jumbled | (adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy |
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| jumbo | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, giant |
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| jumbojet | (noun) a very large jet plane | Synonyms: jumbo jet |
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| jument | (noun) an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work | Synonyms: beast of burden |
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| jumentous | (adjective) smelling strongly like a beast of burden | - |
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| jump | (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jumping |
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| (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: parachuting |
| (noun) (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: leap, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) increase suddenly and significantly | - |
| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, rise |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: alternate |
| (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over |
| (verb) make a sudden physical attack on | - |
| (verb) enter eagerly into | - |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, leap, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: derail |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump off, leap |
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, parachute |
| (verb) be highly noticeable | Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out |
| jumper | (noun) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump | Synonyms: jump shot |
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| (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: pinafore, pinny |
| (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) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: sweater |
| (noun) an athlete who competes at jumping | - |
| (noun) a person who jumps | - |
| jumpiness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jumping | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump | - |
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| (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jump |
| jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| jumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, rocky, rough |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |