Jersey vs. Jumper — What's the Difference?

Jersey ( JUR-zee, French: [ʒɛʁzɛ] (listen); Jèrriais: Jèrri [dʒɛri]), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is an island and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy.

One that jumps.

The largest of the Channel Islands; population 91,900 (est. 2009); capital, St Helier.

A type of coasting sled.

A soft, plain-knitted fabric used for clothing.

(Electricity) A wire or cable used temporarily to complete a circuit or to bypass a break in a circuit.

A shirt worn by an athlete, often displaying the name of the player, team, or sponsor.

(Basketball) See jump shot.

A close-fitting knitted pullover shirt, jacket, or sweater.

A saddle horse that has been trained to jump over obstacles.

Often Jersey Any of a breed of fawn-colored dairy cattle developed on the island of Jersey and producing milk that is rich in butterfat.

A sleeveless dress or a skirt that has an attached bib and is worn over a blouse or sweater.

(countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

A loose, protective garment worn over other clothes.

A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.

Often jumpers A child's garment consisting of straight-legged pants attached to a biblike bodice.

(uncountable) A type of fabric knit

Chiefly British A pullover sweater.

The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.

See jumpsuit.

A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

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

One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

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

A close-fitting pullover shirt

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

A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric

(electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.

Breed from the island of Jersey

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.

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

A jumping spider.

The larva of the cheese fly.

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

(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.

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

(video games) A platform game based around jumping.

A woollen sweater or pullover.

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

(US) 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.

(usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.

(transitive) To connect with an electrical jumper.

One who, or that which, jumps.

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

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

The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

A loose upper garment

A sleeveless one-piece dress, either with full shoulders or straps, sometimes with only the front part of the bodice, usually worn by women with a blouse underneath.

A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;

A short wire, or a small plastic object containing such a short wire, used to optionally connect or disconnect two points in an electronic circuit, so as to include or exclude portions of the circuit and thus modify the function of the circuit. Such jumpers are much used to adapt add-on circuit boards for different conditions or functions within a computer.

To insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit). See 2nd jumper.

An athlete who competes at jumping

An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball)

A small connector used to make temporary electrical connections

A loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen

A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing

A player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump