I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
BASE jumping
be jumping for joy (= be very pleased about something )
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She tried to stay calm, but she was secretly jumping for joy.
broad jump
bungee jumping
dive/fall/jump/plunge head-first
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I fell head-first down the stairs.
high jump
jump at a chance (= use an opportunity eagerly )
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Ed jumped at the chance to earn some extra money.
jump bail ( also skip bail British English ) (= not return for your trial as you promised )
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He jumped bail and fled the country three days before he was to be sentenced.
jump ball
jump into/out of bed
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I jumped out of bed and ran over to the window.
jump jet
jump leads
jump rope
jump shot
jump the queue (= go to the front rather than joining the end of a queue )
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An argument developed when she tried to jump the queue.
jump to/leap to conclusions (= decide something is true without knowing all the facts, especially when you are wrong )
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Everyone jumped to the conclusion that we would get married.
jump up from your chair (= get up quickly )
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‘Look at the time!’ she cried, jumping up from her chair.
jumping jack
jump/leap off the page (= be very noticeable )
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One mistake jumped off the page.
long jump
out came/jumped etc
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The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick.
show jumping
ski jump
star jump
triple jump
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Triple jumper Edwards set a new world record.
water jump
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Her horse fell at the water jump.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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I've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me.
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The percentage of trucks jumped about 15 percent, to roughly 7, 000 a day.
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She laughed and jumped about with the Palernians, trying to burst the bubbles.
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Glover heard his father call his name and about jumped out of his skin.
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Jonti jumps about , a mass of raps and vocal slaps.
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Everybody's jumping about with knives anyway.
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One I specially like was a clockwork bathing lady who jumps about when you turn the key in her back.
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On the opposite side of the quadrangle, silhouetted figures were standing on the roofs, whooping and jumping about .
ahead
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But this is to jump ahead .
around
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Either they jump out of the Cabinet, or they jump around in it.
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We will not jump from event to event just to prove that we can jump around .
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Then suddenly I get all cold, and I have to jump around a bit to get warm.
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Interest rates and inflation can jump around much more, governments can rise and fall. and so on.
back
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Moore dropped the rope and jumped back with a cry.
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I yelled and I screamed at umpires, at everybody, and they all jumped back .
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Lamarr jumped back dropping the broken pieces and with blood all over his hand and face.
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She loosed her sash, sending it snaking with a flick of her wrist so that Grimm jumped back a pace.
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As I said it, I jumped back in the bathroom and locked the door.
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Harry nearly jumped back in surprise and flushed instantly in embarrassment at the distaste his flinching movement had signalled.
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We walked down close to the waves as we had done as kids, jumping back when one surged toward us.
down
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I ran out on to the bridge and jumped down into the moat.
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Over to the left is the ledge where the real diehard fools jump down sixty or seventy feet.
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He checked, but only momentarily, then he had jumped down on to the track a knife in his hand.
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His chest had tightened with pain as he watched Carson jump down from the truck.
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He jumped down and seemed to stumble.
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When it was almost still he jumped down with a smile.
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I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening.
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Here and there a red squirrel jumped down noisily, then hopped back on to a horizontal log cushioned with soft green moss.
in
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He sent for his carriage and jumped in , and after telling his coachman to drive fast he ordered him to stop.
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Magnanimously, I jumped in and offered to pay the discount difference so that my dining friend would not feel cheated.
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Just imagine jumping in and putting your feet through it.
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I go to the subway to say good-bye, and he jumps in after me.
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Nails grabbed him, locked his bony arm round the shrinking body and jumped in with him.
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Send out a mayday, jump in and wait.
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The children began to jump in and out of the boat, arranging and re-arranging themselves.
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Like a hockey fight, though, we have a third party jumping in .
off
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I jumped off and ran towards her and ... she backed away.
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We brought a load of grunts with us, and they jumped off to join their fellows as soon as we landed.
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He jumps off waterfalls to pass the time of day.
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Carbon paper executives probably jumped off buildings when they learned about Xerox copiers.
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These are paragliders; mad fools who climb to the top of Munros and jump off .
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The words would jump off the page, I would understand things I had never understood before.
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Thus adjured, Hector jumped off the bed with a short bark and trotted out of the room.
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But just then McMurphy jumped off his bed and went to rustling through his nightstand, and I hushed.
on
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Then they jump on to their prey, paralyse it and feed on it.
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Do they mind all this jumping on and off?
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The more people jumped on to the bandwagon, the more others wanted to join them.
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So with that, he jumped on me, started choking me and beating my head against the wall.
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But no more of this being jumped on by strange exploding assassins.
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I jumped on to my bunk, still yelling for release.
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Suddenly he dashed across the street, dodging the traffic, and jumped on to a small motorbike.
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The City is one of the few places left with the old London buses you can jump on and off.
out
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She was nearly home and some one jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood.
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When a runner from the office called my name, I jumped out of my skin.
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It was only a few seconds before he hit a culdesac and jumped out .
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I nearly jumped out of my socks.
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For the first goal, Newell out jumped him to head towards goal.
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The other two men jumped out of the car and escaped on foot, Thayer said.
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She says buried eels jumped out of the sand, and either stopped completely or moved sluggishly as if they were stunned.
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Without another word, she jumped out and hurried inside.
over
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Holding hands with your man in the sea and jumping over the biggest waves you've ever seen?
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Firebug torches a building as if he were making a bonfire for his father to jump over .
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From a virtual standstill he jumped over .
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Pascal once said that the mind builds walls that the heart jumps over , but somehow that did not satisfy me.
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Stay on the left and let it come up close, jumping over its lightning bolts in the process.
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The goal was to jump over the rubber string one hundred times without touching it.
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Fill the trench with water and progressively jump over it, from time to time removing a pole.
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People often still follow the rather dangerous custom of jumping over these bonfires, especially on the feast of São João.
through
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Firms wanting to merge have therefore been expected to jump through impossibly tight hoops.
up
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In moments, they were snuffling at his thighs, jumping up with gleeful whines to lick his face.
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So I giggle, hoot and, you know, jump up and down when I watch this.
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Byrne says that they added to the confusion by jumping up and down and shouting with glee.
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He jumped up and crept from window to window.
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She jumped up and caught the branch.
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When I walked up to them, the girl jumped up, but Nguyen barked and she sat back down.
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Her stomach jumped up and down.
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When the Goldwater scholarship was announced this spring, Flores jumped up and down, not for joy, but from surprise.
■ NOUN
bandwagon
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One of the reasons being put forward is that they are jumping on a bandwagon which unfortunately is worldwide.
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This allows presidential candidates to jump on their bandwagons without being held accountable for their extreme positions.
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We're still here, two extensions later, and very happy not to have jumped on the house-moving bandwagon .
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Just a preliminary communication first, without the experimental details, so that nobody can jump on the bandwagon right away.
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The more people jumped on to the bandwagon , the more others wanted to join them.
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And other quick-serve restaurant chains, such as Boston Market, are jumping on the bandwagon .
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In every country, intellectuals, too, have jumped on the nationalist bandwagon .
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Companies such as Oracle are jumping on the bandwagon , too, with low-priced network computers.
bed
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It had a habit of jumping on the bed when they were making love and clawing him.
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I jumped off the brass bed and ran down the path toward the house.
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Thus adjured, Hector jumped off the bed with a short bark and trotted out of the room.
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One time he jumped out of bed in the middle of the afternoon and put on a suit and tie.
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She jumped out of bed and, pulling on her shirt, darted next door into the head.
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He ran ahead quickly, jumped into bed , and pretended to be asleep as the princesses returned to their room.
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I went to my room and locked the door and ... I jumped into bed and pulled the duvet right over me.
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But just then McMurphy jumped off his bed and went to rustling through his nightstand, and I hushed.
chance
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Con had jumped at the chance of taking Cedric and the pair had apparently settled in happily together.
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Not all the associations are jumping at the chance to buy and sell derivatives.
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Her business mind had jumped at the chance of a spot of international acclaim.
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I jumped at the chance to go buy a bottle of whisky to keep warm in the rushing cold air of night.
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I signed him for Middlesbrough, and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here.
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Mrs Froggat jumped at the chance .
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Many stars have jumped at the chance to appear in Morse which is transmitted worldwide.
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Actor, Anthony Hopkins, explains that he jumped at the chance to play a part in the film.
conclusion
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It was you who jumped to the conclusion .
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But they warned against jumping to conclusions until more is known.
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Breaking a habit, be it over-eating, over-drinking, biting your nails or jumping to conclusions , is a tall order.
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I walked in here, checked out the store, I checked you out, and I jumped to a conclusion .
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He tends to jump to conclusions with feats of illogicality worthy of Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.
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But let us not jump to dire conclusions .
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Deeply hurt, Vincent jumped to the conclusion that news of his friendship with Sien had reached him and upset the man.
fence
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I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence .
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Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence .
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You and your horse need to be capable of jumping solid fences safely and under control.
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I think the bull jumped the fence .
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It jumped the fence lower down and disappeared from sight.
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By herself she could jump over fences and ditches better than her brothers.
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However, if you are committed to jumping a fence , they should not get in the way.
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Some have been unable to wait, jumping the fence at night and skating on the completed ramps.
gun
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The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
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Although some winter barley growers jumped he gun last week, little was cut as crops were not fit.
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Suppose some broker was able to anticipate the radio sign from Chicago, then he could jump the gun .
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But we are jumping the gun here.
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Aren't we jumping the gun a bit?
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The new squad will officially be in existence on Monday anyway, so we're only jumping the gun by six days.
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But I have jumped the gun .
hoop
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Firms wanting to merge have therefore been expected to jump through impossibly tight hoops .
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops .
joy
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If they jump for joy today hold off until they sober up again.
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You ought to be jumping with joy .
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Most people would jump with joy to hear of the mortgage war that broke out this week between Nationwide and Halifax.
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Here he is jumping for joy .
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No one was jumping for joy because they'd finally got the piece they'd been searching for for years.
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He hadn't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place, as she knew very well.
queue
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Such old-boy networks were one way of jumping the promotion queue , of obtaining sponsorship.
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The duchess caused more ill-feeling and was jeered when she jumped hour-long queues on the slopes.
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Why not save money - and jump the queue today.
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Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue .
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We can not jump the queue .
train
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Some guards moved the taxi back to the road and then they jumped on to the train again.
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I was a fisherman myself before I jumped that train and wound up here.
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Anyway, I'd already found a seat when he jumped on as the train was about to leave.
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I once read a case in the newspaper about a man who jumped in front of an Underground train .
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And says if he'd been given his own psychiatric nurse ... he would never have jumped off the train .
window
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A few days short of his fifteenth birthday, Gert attempted suicide, cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window .
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The stammering policeman jumped through the window and embedded his booted foot in the overturned pot.
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Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch.
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Yet, I should jump out the window if I had to do another Violet book!
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He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge.
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Earlier this year, a thirty four year old woman died after jumping from a window in the same block.
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Once, the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window .
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Well, she's not going to jump out of the window in the next hour, is she?
■ VERB
run
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Not to be denied my ride, I ran and jumped on his back, taking him by surprise.
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I love people running , jumping , shooting, falling.
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He ran ahead quickly, jumped into bed, and pretended to be asleep as the princesses returned to their room.
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Robin Powell pays tribute to those who ran , jumped , and dunked themselves in beans for charity.
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They ran , they jumped , they argued.
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He began to run and jump across the white rocks, exhilarated by the emptiness all round.
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John was born crippled and with cerebral palsy but could run , walk and jump .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying jump/leap
be (in) for the high jump
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And it's all about: Who is for the high jump in Rome?
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He'd be for the high jump, as usual.
climb/jump/get on the bandwagon
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And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon .
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And other quick-serve restaurant chains, such as Boston Market, are jumping on the bandwagon .
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Companies such as Oracle are jumping on the bandwagon , too, with low-priced network computers.
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Competitors are certain to jump on the bandwagon with rival systems and Nimslo's much-vaunted patents could be unable to stop them.
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For a while, the seif-centred members of celebrity circles were falling over themselves in their eagerness to jump on the bandwagon .
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If the petition is advertised, more creditors may jump on the bandwagon .
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Just a preliminary communication first, without the experimental details, so that nobody can jump on the bandwagon right away.
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The Communists have climbed on the bandwagon , but only to put the brakes on.
get/jump/rise etc to your feet
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Antony rose to his feet and stood gazing intensely at her.
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He got to his feet , did a 365-degree scan, and moved on.
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Kay McGovern rose to his feet , cheering appreciatively when the performance ended.
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The three men turned, facing it, Kao Chen getting to his feet .
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They got to their feet and consulted; then they disappeared.
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Zeinab rose to her feet and swept out of the box.
jump/be thrown in at the deep end
jump/go through hoops
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We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops .
take a running jump
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Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump.
the broad jump
the high jump
the long jump
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A couple of kids had jumped the fence and were playing around inside.
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Cathy's conversation jumped wildly from one topic to another.
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Following the attacks, he now jumps every time he hears a plane.
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He climbed over the wall and jumped the guard, easily overpowering him.
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He raced down the garden and jumped over the wall.
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My cat always jumps up onto the table when I'm trying to work.
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Ricky jumped across the stream and ran all the way home.
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She jumped down from the wall.
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She jumped out of her skin, as something cold and snakelike was thrust into her hand.
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Somebody jumped her from an alley as she was walking home.
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Something came out in front of me and I jumped.
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The dog jumped the gate and ran away howling.
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The driver jumped clear as his vehicle fell into the river below.
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Two guys tried to jump me in the park last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As I waited, Pike started to fall, jumping clear of the stilts that had been holding him up.
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But what -- or who -- jumps into the breach for the Lakers is Bryant.
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He ducked, he jumped, he danced, he threw hard and was gracious in both victory and defeat.
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Junior was jumping up and down, hugging me.
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People often still follow the rather dangerous custom of jumping over these bonfires, especially on the feast of São João.
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She laughed and jumped about with the Palernians, trying to burst the bubbles.
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We will not jump from event to event just to prove that we can jump around.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted.
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The blips appeared on three separate occasions, and each time the lowest instrument showed the biggest jump .
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Now take some big jumps forward.
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With inflation apparently moribund, a big jump in rates seems unlikely.
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In a more unsettling development, the report also revealed a big jump in prices paid for raw materials.
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The biggest jumps in participation rates were recorded by workers under age 44, minorities, machine operators and laborers.
little
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I adore your little jumps of logic.
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She came closer, with tiny little jumps , until they were hugging close.
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They move by suddenly flexing the hinder end of their body so that they give a little skipping jump .
running
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Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump .
■ NOUN
jockey
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The Committee also handed out a four-week suspension to Bruce Dowling, the jump jockey , for forging a doctor's signature.
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Fred Winter was one of the most skilful and durable jump jockeys of the same period.
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Allen Webb, the jump jockey , will be out of action for a week after injuring his neck while riding out.
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Glover, 45, and a former top-notch jump jockey , took up training relatively late in his racing career.
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With prize money declining, he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £150.
parachute
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Students at the college have raised £6,000 for the appeal so far by parachute jumps and other fund-raising efforts.
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When Amelia learned to fly in 1921, Lieutenant Harris's parachute jump was still almost two years in the future.
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In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship.
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There's archery on-site too as well as a simulated parachute jump .
■ VERB
make
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By the spring of 1993, after being an assistant coach for eight years, she was ready to make the jump .
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The approach is what makes the jump .
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Just yesterday, Olympic Financial, a Minneapolis loan-services company, made the jump .
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In the last 50 years, our strategic forces made quantum jumps in effectiveness that surpassed anything the Soviet Union could do.
report
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Boston Scientific reported a 29 percent jump in fourth-quarter sales, excluding acquisitions, at Hambrecht&038;.
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The big chip group reported a 25 % jump in fourth-quarter sales and higher operating profit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a parachute jump
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Aziz won the event with a jump of 2 metres.
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That was his best jump of the competition.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By then, their jump is reasonably established, so you can see what you are buying!
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Her eyes were rimmed with the price of traversing oceans, the jump of time zones.
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Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump .
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Was it Carl Lewis falling prostrate after his gold medal long jump ?