The difference between Jerk and Jump

When used as nouns, jerk means a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body, whereas jump means the act of jumping.

When used as verbs, jerk means to make a sudden uncontrolled movement, 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 Jerk and Jump

  1. Jerk as a noun:

    A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

  2. Jerk as a noun:

    A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

    Examples:

    "When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!"

  3. Jerk as a noun (US, slang, pejorative):

    A dull or stupid person.

  4. Jerk as a noun (US, slang, pejorative):

    A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable.

  5. Jerk as a noun (physics, engineering):

    The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

  6. Jerk as a noun (obsolete):

    A soda jerk.

  7. Jerk as a noun (weightlifting):

    A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.

  1. Jerk as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

  2. Jerk as a verb (transitive):

    To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

  3. Jerk as a verb (US, slang, vulgar):

    To masturbate.

  4. Jerk as a verb (obsolete):

    To beat, to hit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Florio"

  5. Jerk as a verb (obsolete):

    To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

    Examples:

    "to jerk a stone"

  6. Jerk as a verb (usually, transitive, weightlifting):

    To lift using a jerk.

  7. Jerk as a verb (obsolete):

    To flout with contempt.

  1. Jerk as a noun (Caribbean):

    A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.

  2. Jerk as a noun (Caribbean):

    Meat cured by jerking; charqui.

    Examples:

    "Jerk chicken is a local favorite."

  1. Jerk as a verb:

    To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

    Examples:

    "to jump a stream"

  4. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. 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."

  8. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To attack suddenly and violently.

    Examples:

    "The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley."

  9. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To engage in sexual intercourse.

  10. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to jump.

    Examples:

    "The rider jumped the horse over the fence."

  11. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

  12. 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.

  13. Jump as a verb (cycling, intransitive):

    To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

  14. Jump as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

  15. Jump as a verb (transitive, smithwork):

    To join by a buttweld.

  16. Jump as a verb:

    To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

  17. Jump as a verb (quarrying):

    To bore with a jumper.

  18. Jump as a verb (obsolete):

    To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

  19. Jump as a verb (intransitive, programming):

    To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

  20. Jump as a verb (intransitive, slang, archaic):

    To flee; to make one's escape.

  1. Jump as a noun:

    The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

  2. Jump as a noun:

    An effort; an attempt; a venture.

  3. Jump as a noun (mining):

    A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

  4. Jump as a noun (architecture):

    An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

  5. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

    Examples:

    "The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane."

  6. Jump as a noun:

    An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

    Examples:

    "He went off a jump."

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

  10. Jump as a noun:

    A jumping move in a board game.

    Examples:

    "the knight's jump in chess"

  11. 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."

  12. 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."

  13. 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."

  14. 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.

  15. Jump as a noun (science fiction):

    An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

  16. Jump as a noun (computing):

    A change of the path of execution to a different location.

  1. Jump as an adverb (obsolete):

    exactly; precisely

  1. Jump as an adjective (obsolete):

    Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

  1. Jump as a noun:

    A kind of loose jacket for men.

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