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: Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
Skip
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move by hopping on alternate feet.To leap about lightly.To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.To omit or disregard (some item or stage).To place an item in a skip.Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such).The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocksShort for skipper, the master or captain of a ship.The elevator in a mine.
Example sentence: You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.