Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That leaps; jumping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- from
leap , to jump. - [Obs.] a brothel.
- a pole used in some games of leaping.
- (Zoöl.) a jumping spider; one of the
Saltigradæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
leap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
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Examples
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“Nick,” she says, the word leaping out before she has a chance to stop it.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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“Nick,” she says, the word leaping out before she has a chance to stop it.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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“Nick,” she says, the word leaping out before she has a chance to stop it.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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“Nick,” she says, the word leaping out before she has a chance to stop it.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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He was in all truth a hero, worthy to be of that wing-helmeted company leaping from the beaked boats upon the bloody English sands.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
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This is not your ordinary, everyday headline; that's for sure, and I feel sorry for the fellow now in the ECU; but I cannot shake the image of a deer with the Screaming Eagle on his shoulder leaping from a plane and shouting "Geronimo" as he opens his 'chute.
October 20th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Then they fought their way to the bank through swirling water and grinding ice, where, foremost in leaping to the rescue among the jarring fragments, was the Kid.
AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010
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When he heated them they grew and grew, becoming quick and lumpy, until they could outwit him (and all his hungry guests waiting with beer and bread out in the yard) by leaping from the pan with their half-wings and running down the lane like boys.
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They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, “over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide.”
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