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jump-start

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun jump-start has 1 sense

  • jump-start(n = noun.act) jumpstart - starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car; "my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor"
  • is a kind of action

Verb jump-start has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

jump-startv. t. 
  •  To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power to start the vehicle normally.
    "Cables used to transmit electrical current from one vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are called jumper cables."  [PJC]
  •  To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by application of a stimulus not normally used in the activity.  [PJC]
jump-startn. 
     The action or event of jump-starting. For motor vehicles, the jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump.  [PJC]
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