<B>jump cut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abrupt transition from one motion-picture shot or scene to another. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpcut">
<B>jump-cut, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-cut,</B> <B>-cutting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to intercut motion-picture shots or takes rapidly or abruptly. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpedup">
<B>jumped-up, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that has risen from a lowly station or position. <BR> <I>Ex. a jumped-up bureaucrat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jumper">
<B>jumper</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that jumps. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tool or device that works with a jumping motion, such as a drill to bore holes in rock. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Electricity.) a wire used to cut out an instrument or part of a circuit or to close temporarily a break in a circuit. <DD><B> 4. </B>a kind of sled used for coasting. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S.) a small metal chair of tubular construction on which a child may move with a springing motion while sitting down. <DD><B> 6. </B>a Welsh Methodist who jumped in worship. </DL>
<A NAME="jumper">
<B>jumper</B> (2), noun,<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a sleeveless dress in one piece, worn over a blouse. <DD><B> 2. </B>a loose jacket. Jumpers are worn by workmen to protect their clothes and by sailors as part of a uniform. <BR> <I>Ex. Clad in a loose duck jumper and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil (Bret Harte).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a loose blouse reaching to the hips. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpers">
<B>jumpers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rompers. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpercables">
<B>jumper cables,</B> <B>=jump cables.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumpingbean">
<B>jumping bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the seed of a plant of the spurge family, grown in Central and South America, containing a moth larva whose movements cause the seed to jump; Mexican jumping bean; bronco bean; leaper. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpingcholla">
<B>jumping cholla,</B> <B>=cholla.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumpingdeer">
<B>jumping deer,</B> <B>=mule deer.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumpinggene">
<B>jumping gene,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <B>=transposon.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Transposons ... are also called jumping genes because they can change their position from one place to another on the chromosomes (Daniel L. Hartl).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jumpinghare">
<B>jumping hare,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a jerboalike South African rodent, having long, strong hind legs with which it can take long leaps. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpingjack">
<B>jumping jack,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a toy man or animal that can be made to jump by pulling a string. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a yes man; a fawning hanger-on who curries favor by springing forward eagerly to do his master's bidding (used in an unfriendly way). </DL>
<A NAME="jumpingmouse">
<B>jumping mouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a family of mice with long hind legs and very long tail, which they use for jumping. Jumping mice hibernate in the winter and include a yellow-brown mouse of the wet meadows and grasslands in the northeastern United States and Canada. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpingoffplace">
<B>jumping-off place,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an out-of-the-way place. <DD><B> 2. </B>a point of departure. </DL>
<B>jumping pit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pit filled with sawdust, sand, or rubber chips in which a high-jumper or pole-vaulter lands. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpingrope">
<B>jumping rope,</B> <B>=skipping rope.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumpingseed">
<B>jumping seed,</B> <B>=jumping bean.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumpingspider">
<B>jumping spider,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a family of colorful spiders with large eyes and stout front legs, common in the tropics. They have very keen vision and stalk their prey, usually during the day, instead of building a web. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpjet">
<B>jump-jet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a jet aircraft designed for vertical take-offs and landings. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpmaster">
<B>jumpmaster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an officer who controls the dropping of parachute troops and their equipment from an aircraft. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpoff">
<B>jump-off, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or for starting or taking off. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a beginning; sudden move; start. <DD><B> 2. </B>a play-off. </DL>
<A NAME="jumppass">
<B>jump pass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Football, Basketball.) a pass made by a player while jumping. </DL>
<A NAME="jumppass">
<B>jump-pass, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-passed,</B> <B>-passing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make a jump pass. </DL>
<A NAME="jumprope">
<B>jump rope,</B> <B>=skipping rope.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jumps">
<B>jumps, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>jump.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="jumpseat">
<B>jump seat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a collapsible seat hinged to the floor of an automobile directly behind the front seat and in front of the back seat. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar seat hinged to the floor or wall, especially in an airplane, elevator, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpshift">
<B>jump shift,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bid in a new suit exactly one trick higher than needed to overcall partner's last bid in contract bridge. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpshoot">
<B>jump-shoot, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-shot,</B> <B>-shooting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to hunt duck by wading or drifting downstream in a boat and shooting when the birds flush. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpshot">
<B>jump shot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Basketball.) a shot made while jumping, especially at the highest point of the jump. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpspark">
<B>jump spark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a spark formed when electricity jumps across a permanent gap in a circuit. </DL>
<A NAME="jumpstart">
<B>jump-start, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to start an internal-combustion engine in a car, truck, etc., by connecting cables from an auxiliary storage battery to supplement or replace lost power in the ignition system. <DD><B> b. </B>to start an internal-combustion engine in a car, truck, etc., by forcing it to turn over while the vehicle is being pushed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to start some enterprise or process by additional effort or means. <BR> <I>Ex. New advertising sections were necessary to jump-start the magazine (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the starting of an internal-combustion engine by auxiliary electric power or by pushing the vehicle the engine is in. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the act or fact of starting some enterprise or process by additional effort or means. <BR> <I>Ex. The Los Angeles Times credits a radio talk show with giving a jump-start to baseball salary negotiations in San Diego (Richard Moony).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jumpsuit">
<B>jump suit</B> or <B>jumpsuit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a one-piece suit used by parachutists. <DD><B> 2. </B>a one-piece garment resembling a parachutist's uniform, used especially for causal wear. <BR> <I>Ex. The fashions include jumpsuits for both men and women (New York Times). She would own jump suits for everything from skiing to curling up on the fireside rug (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jumpup">
<B>jump-up, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in the British West Indies and Guyana) an informal dance. </DL>
<B>jumpy, </B>adjective, <B>jumpier,</B> <B>jumpiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>moving by jumps; making sudden, sharp jerks. <BR> <I>Ex. a jumpy puppy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>easily excited or frightened; nervous. <BR> <I>Ex. The jumpy little old lady started at every noise.</I> adv. <B>jumpily.</B> noun <B>jumpiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="jun">
<B>jun, </B>noun, pl. <B>jun.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of money in North Korea, equal to 1/100 of a won. </DL>
<A NAME="jun">
<B>Jun</B> (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> June. </DL>
<B>Junc.</B> or <B>junc.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> junction. </DL>
<A NAME="juncaceous">
<B>juncaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the family of plants typified by the rush. </DL>
<A NAME="junco">
<B>junco, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several small North American finches such as the slate-colored junco or snowbird. One kind is often seen in flocks during the winter. Juncos are related to the sparrows. </DL>
<A NAME="junction">
<B>junction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of joining. <BR> <I>Ex. The junction of two rivers resulted in a large flow of water downstream.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being joined. <DD><B> 3. </B>a place of joining or meeting. A junction is a place or point where railroad lines or highways meet or cross. <BR> <I>Ex. Motorcyclists: Wear a crash helmet and take particular care at junctions (News Chronicle).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Electronics.) <DD><B> a. </B>an area of transition between semiconductors with different electrical properties, such as a p-n junction. <DD><B> b. </B>a point of contact between two different metals, as in a rectifier. </DL>
<A NAME="junctional">
<B>junctional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or like a junction. </DL>
<A NAME="junctural">
<B>junctural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with phonetic juncture. <BR> <I>Ex. Languages differ widely in their junctural habits as they do in other ways (Simeon Potter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="juncture">
<B>juncture, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a point or line where two things join; joint. <DD><B> 2. </B>a point of time. <DD><B> 3. </B>a state of affairs. <BR> <I>Ex. the present political juncture.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a critical state of affairs; crisis. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the act or process of joining. <DD><B> b. </B>the state of being joined. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Phonetics.) <DD><B> a. </B>the way in which sounds and sound sequences are joined. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a difference in juncture in English between "night rate" and "nitrate."</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any one of the various distinctive types of transition used in a particular language. <BR><I>expr. <B>at this juncture,</B> </I>when affairs are in this state; at this moment. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys were squaring off for a fight, but at this juncture the coach stepped in and cooled everything down.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="june">
<B>June, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the sixth month of the year. It has 30 days. </DL>
<A NAME="junebeetle">
<B>June beetle,</B> <B>=June bug.</B></DL>
<A NAME="juneberry">
<B>Juneberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fruit of the shadbush. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree. </DL>
