Jump
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece. To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward. To attack suddenly and violently. To force to jump.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: exactly; precisely
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An instance of propelling oneself into the air. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. A jumping move in a board game. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. An early start or an advantage. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
Example sentence: Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'
Alternate
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.Other or alternative.Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. --Gray.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.A replacement of equal or greater value or function.Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with.To vary by turns.
Example sentence: Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.