Jumpstart
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To start a motor vehicle by passing an electrical current from a charged battery to the discharged ("dead" or "flat") battery of the vehicle being started, by using booster cables to temporarily connect the two batteries in parallel.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.
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: Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.