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The transparent piece is jump + -er: one who jumps. But two of the three meanings are clothes, and they do not come from jumping at all — they trace back to an old word for a loose jacket. So this entry holds two different words that happen to look the same: a jumper who leaps, and a jumper you pull on.

可以想成這個字底下其實藏了兩個長得一樣的字。一個看得懂：jump 加 -er，會跳的人或動物。另一個是衣服——毛衣和…更多收起可以想成這個字底下其實藏了兩個長得一樣的字。一個看得懂：jump 加 -er，會跳的人或動物。另一個是衣服——毛衣和背心裙——跟「跳」沒有關係，一般認為來自一個舊的、指寬鬆外衣的字。所以與其硬把毛衣說成「跳」的比喻，不如記住：同一個拼法，兩條路。要注意英式的 jumper 是毛衣，美式講 sweater；而美式的 jumper 是背心裙，英式叫 pinafore dress——同一個字在兩邊指不同的衣服。

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Jumpername

  • 1

    A surname.

jumpernoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/

  • 1

    Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

  • 2

    A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

    • Field: Be advised we have jumpers, K, jumpers. Dispatch: Alright, Division 1, be advised, Battalion 2 advised we have jumpers from the World Trade Center, K.
    • Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
  • 3

    A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.

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  • 4

    rail-transportrailwaystransportAn electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.

    • For coupling between the cars of a three-car set 19 core jumpers are provided for control and auxiliary train cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits.
  • 5

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.

  • 6

    A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.

  • 7

    A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

    • a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego
  • 8

    informalarachnologybiologynatural-sciencesA jumping spider.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The larva of the cheese fly.

  • 10

    obsoletehistoricalOne of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

  • 11

    hobbieshorologylifestyleA spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

  • 12

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesA shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.

    • [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
  • 13

    A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

    • In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.
  • 14

    video-gamesA platform game based around jumping.

    • This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

jumperverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/

  • 1

    To connect with an electrical jumper.

jumpernoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/

  • 1

    A woollen sweater or pullover.

    • The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)
  • 2

    A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.

  • 3

    A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.

  • 4

    Rompers.

  • 5

    The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。