Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To propel oneself quickly upward or a long way; spring or jump.
- intransitive verb To move quickly or suddenly.
- intransitive verb To change quickly or abruptly from one condition or subject to another.
- intransitive verb To act quickly or impulsively.
- intransitive verb To enter eagerly into an activity; plunge.
- intransitive verb To propel oneself over.
- intransitive verb To cause to leap.
- noun The act of leaping; a jump.
- noun A place jumped over or from.
- noun The distance cleared in a leap.
- noun An abrupt or precipitous passage, shift, or transition.
- idiom (by leaps and bounds) Very quickly.
- idiom (leap in the dark) An act whose consequences cannot be predicted.
- idiom (leap of faith) The act or an instance of believing or trusting in something intangible or incapable of being proved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or an act of leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
- noun The act of copulating with or covering a female: said of certain beasts.
- noun In music, a passing from any tone to one that is two or more diatonic steps distant from it.
- noun In mining, a fault or break in the strata.
- To spring clear of the ground or of any point of rest; pass through space by force of an initial bound or impulse; spring; jump; vault; bound.
- To move with springs or bounds; start suddenly or with quick motion; make a spring or bound; shoot or spring out or up.
- To go; travel. Compare
landleaper . - In music, to pass from any tone to one that is two or more diatonic steps distant from it.
- To pass over by leaping; jump over; spring or bound from one side to the other of: as, to
leap a wall. - To copulate with; cover: said of the males of certain beasts.
- To cause to take a leap; cause to pass by Leaping.
- noun A basket.
- noun A trap or snare for fish.
- noun Half a bushel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A basket.
- noun Prov. Eng. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- transitive verb To pass over by a leap or jump.
- transitive verb To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- transitive verb To cause to leap.
- intransitive verb To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault.
- intransitive verb To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
- noun The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
- noun Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- noun (Mining) A fault.
- noun (Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
- verb intransitive To
jump from onelocation toanother . - noun The act of
leaping orjumping . - noun The
distance traversed by a leap orjump . - noun figuratively A
significant move forward . - noun mining A
fault . - noun
Copulation with, orcoverture of, afemale beast .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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IV. iii.148 (410,8) [How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it?] [W: geap] To _leap_ is to _exult_, to skip for joy.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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The main leap is recognizing that preserving data will be an ongoing semi-hygienic chore, like brushing your teeth or taking out the trash.
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The main leap is recognizing that preserving data will be an ongoing semi-hygienic chore, like brushing your teeth or taking out the trash.
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Your plan works … I think we should just skip doing this in the Atlantic and go to a place in South Africa called Simonstown where Great White sharks have been known to leap from the water to get their prey which is normally the seals the live and hunt in the area. linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says:
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But if he does come back, Fresno State will look to make a big leap from a 15-18 season and a 7-9 record in the WAC.
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I think the leap from the tree-limb is a good start.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Mnkyking’s Review Forum 2010
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Anatomy of a Scene: The Explosive Bridge Chase Scene — A dissection of the sequence when Bourne narrowly avoids a train coming down the tracks to leap from a bridge onto a barge underneath.
THE BOURNE IDENTITY/THE BOURNE SUPREMACY Blu-Ray/DVD Flipper Disc Reviews – Collider.com 2010
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The leap from the ponderous Maxim to the AK is great, and Chivers necessarily covers many significant weapons only briefly.
A history of the gun that made history IV Mark A. Keefe 2010
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Whether it'll be able to make a leap from a borderline NCAA team to a national contender -- as State fans thought might happen this season -- requires yet another stretch of the imagination.
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When we gave Eli his big contract, we needed him to go from above-average/pretty good to very good, and to make the leap from a steward of a good offense to someone who could carry the offense by himself.
Greg Hanlon: Ungiantlike: Eagles 45 - Giants 38 Greg Hanlon 2010
reesetee commented on the word leap
A traditional Welsh unit of distance equal to 6 feet 9 inches or 2.0574 meters.
November 8, 2007
yarb commented on the word leap
The Welsh are a great race of leapers. It comes from living in valleys, you see. They're always leaping from one side to the other.
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word leap
And of course the leaps are precisely 2.0574 meters. ;-)
November 8, 2007