The difference between Flinch and Jump
When used as nouns, flinch means a reflexive jerking away, whereas jump means the act of jumping.
When used as verbs, flinch means to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus, whereas jump means to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
Jump is also adverb with the meaning: exactly.
Jump is also adjective with the meaning: exact.
check bellow for the other definitions of Flinch and Jump
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Flinch as a noun:
A reflexive jerking away.
Examples:
"My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes."
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Flinch as a noun (croquet):
The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
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Flinch as a verb (intransitive):
To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
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Flinch as a verb:
To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
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Flinch as a verb (croquet):
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
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Flinch as a verb:
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Jump as a verb (intransitive):
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
Examples:
"The boy jumped over a fence."
"Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high."
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Jump as a verb (intransitive):
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
Examples:
"She is going to jump from the diving board."
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
Examples:
"to jump a stream"
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Jump as a verb (intransitive):
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
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Jump as a verb (intransitive):
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
Examples:
"The sudden sharp sound made me jump."
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Jump as a verb (intransitive):
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.
Examples:
"The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop."
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
Examples:
"I hate it when people jump the queue."
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To attack suddenly and violently.
Examples:
"The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley."
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To engage in sexual intercourse.
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To cause to jump.
Examples:
"The rider jumped the horse over the fence."
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
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Jump as a verb (transitive):
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
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Jump as a verb (cycling, intransitive):
To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
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Jump as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
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Jump as a verb (transitive, smithwork):
To join by a buttweld.
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Jump as a verb:
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
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Jump as a verb (quarrying):
To bore with a jumper.
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Jump as a verb (obsolete):
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
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Jump as a verb (intransitive, programming):
To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
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Jump as a verb (intransitive, slang, archaic):
To flee; to make one's escape.
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Jump as a noun:
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
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Jump as a noun:
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
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Jump as a noun (mining):
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
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Jump as a noun (architecture):
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
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Jump as a noun:
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
Examples:
"The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane."
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Jump as a noun:
An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
Examples:
"He went off a jump."
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Jump as a noun:
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
Examples:
"There were a couple of jumps from the bridge."
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Jump as a noun:
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
Examples:
"She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving."
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Jump as a noun:
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
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Jump as a noun:
A jumping move in a board game.
Examples:
"the knight's jump in chess"
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Jump as a noun:
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
Examples:
"Press jump to start."
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Jump as a noun (sports, horses):
An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
Examples:
"Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second."
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Jump as a noun (with ''on''):
An early start or an advantage.
Examples:
"He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before."
"Their research department gave them the jump on the competition."
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Jump as a noun (mathematics):
A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
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Jump as a noun (science fiction):
An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
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Jump as a noun (computing):
A change of the path of execution to a different location.
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Jump as an adverb (obsolete):
exactly; precisely
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Jump as an adjective (obsolete):
Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
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Jump as a noun:
A kind of loose jacket for men.