jumper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that jumps.
2. n. A type of coasting sled.
3. n. Electricity A short length of wire used temporarily to complete a circuit or to bypass a break in a circuit.
4. n. Basketball See jump shot.
5. n. A saddle horse that has been trained to jump over obstacles.
6. n. A sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater.
7. n. A loose, protective garment worn over other clothes.
8. n. A child's garment consisting of straight-legged pants attached to a biblike bodice. Often used in the plural.
9. n. Chiefly British A pullover sweater.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which jumps. Specifically
2. n. One who practises leaping or dancing as a part of divine worship. The practice has prevailed among certain Methodists, chiefly in Wales, sometimes among Irvingites, and among the Shakers. A Russian dissenting sect bears a name translated by Jumpers.
3. n. One who jumps a claim to land.
4. n. In zoology any animal which habitually jumps, leaps, or hops as a mode of progression. A fish which often leaps out of water.
5. n. In mech., a tool or contrivance which works with a jumping motion. In quarrying: A drill worked by hand and struck by a hammer. A long drill worked by hand, but not struck by a hammer. It has a chisel-edge at each end, and is swollen in the middle to give more weight and thus add to the force of the blow. (Morgans, Mining Tools, p. 43.)
6. n. A bit used in a jointer.
7. n. A special form of plowshare for rough soil, or soil filled with roots.
8. n. In telegraphy, a wire used to cut out an instrument or part of a circuit, or to close temporarily a gap in a circuit.
9. n. A kind of sleigh: usually a simple box on runners, especially on runners which are parts of the poles forming the thills, and the middle parts of which are made thinner so as to bend.
10. n. Nautical, a preventer-rope made fast in such a way as to prevent a yard, mast, or boom from jumping, or giving way in an upward direction, in heavy weather.
11. n. A kind of loose jacket with sleeves worn by some classes of laborers, as seamen and stevedores, usually with overalls, reaching to the thighs, and buttoned the whole length in front; also, any upper garment of similar shape.
12. To mix together; mingle; jumble.
13. n. One who is registered and votes fraudulently in several places.
14. n. One who is affected with the jumping-disease.

Wiktionary

1. n. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. n. chiefly UK A woolen sweater or pullover.
3. n. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
4. n. A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
5. n. Rompers.
6. n. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
7. n. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
8. n. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, jumps.
2. n. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.
3. n. U.S. A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
4. n. (Zoöl.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
5. n. (Eccl.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
6. n. (Horology) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
7. n. A loose upper garment.
8. n. A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
9. n. A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.
10. n. 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.
11. n. (Mining, Quarrying, etc.) A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion an instrument for boring holes in rocks by percussion without hammering, consisting of a bar of iron with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
12. n. (Electronics) 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.
13. v. (electronics) to insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit). See 2nd jumper.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
2. n. a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
3. n. a coverall worn by children
4. n. a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
5. n. (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
6. n. a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
7. n. an athlete who competes at jumping
8. n. a person who jumps