jump jumping | the act of jumping, propelling yourself off the ground, he advanced in a series of jumps, the jumping was unexpected |
jumping up and down | jumping in one spot (as in excitement), the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
jumping | the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump |
ski jumping | the act of performing a jump on skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope |
showjumping stadium jumping | riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles |
crossountry riding crossountry jumping | riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
jumping bristletail machilid | wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks, they make erratic leaps when disturbed |
jumping mouse | any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches, of woodlands of Eurasia and North America |
meadow jumping mouse Zapus hudsonius | widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada |
jumping jack | plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings |
distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
pole vault pole vaulting pole jump pole jumping | a competition that involves jumping over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole |
distance aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
jumping-off place point of departure | a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched, one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him, my point of departure was San Francisco |
distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
marathoner marathon runner road runner long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
jumping orchid Catasetum macrocarpum | orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme, when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected |
jumping bean jumping seed Mexican jumping bean | seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble |
angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
transposon jumping gene | a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) |
distance space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
outdistance outstrip distance | go far ahead of, He outdistanced the other runners |
stand back keep one's eyes off keep one's distance keep one's hands off stay away | stay clear of, avoid, Keep your hands off my wife!, Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous |
distance | keep at a distance, we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living |
long-distance | covering a long distance, a long-distance runner, a long-distance freight train, she ran off with a long-distance truck driver |
long-distance | of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call, a long-distance call, a long-distance transmission line, a long-distance operator |