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leap English

Meaning leap meaning

What does leap mean?
Definitions in simple English

leap Noun

— A leap is a jump. The clown took a leap through the hoop.

leap Verb

— When you leap, you jump from one place to another. The frog leaped from one end of the pond to the other.

leap

— verb (= jump, bound) move forward by leaps and bounds The horse bounded across the meadow The child leapt across the puddle Can you jump over the fence? — noun a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards — noun an abrupt transition a successful leap from college to the major leagues — verb (= jump) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another leap into fame jump to a conclusion jump from one thing to another — noun the distance leaped (or to be leaped) a leap of 10 feet — noun (= jump) a sudden and decisive increase a jump in attendance — verb (= jump) cause to jump or leap the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop — verb (= jump, jump off) jump down from an elevated point the parachutist didn't want to jump every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge the widow leapt into the funeral pyre

Synonyms leap synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as leap?

leap English » English

jump spring bound hop skip bounce vault saltation prance gambol rush dance plunge leaping jump up jump over jump off vaulting start gallop frisk bissextile skipping rise pounce move quickly hurdle dash dart climb over capriole willing waterfall walk toss throw oneself into tear sudden increase stride step over step steeplechase sprint spring up spearing shoot shock scoot saltus saltatory

Topics leap topics

What do people use leap to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Jump
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
States Quantity More

Increase
Physical actions Posture

Stand

Conjugation leap conjugation

How do you conjugate leap?

leap · verb

Examples leap examples

How do I use leap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Except for leap years, February has only 28 days.
Look before you leap.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
How many days are there in a leap year?
How many days does a leap year have?
How many days comprise a leap year?
They took a leap of faith.
Think before you leap.
February has twenty-nine days in leap years.
The fastest way to heaven is a leap into a deep abyss.
A leap year has three hundred and sixty-six days.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Movie subtitles

The full moon doesn't come frequently in the leap year.
If only I have that child, you don't have to put blood on your hands every leap month, either.
And sir, with Horace out of the way, his dog Kaiser could possibly leap right to the top of the podium.
I'm sure he would leap at the chance.
What am I expected to do? Leap for joy?
He'll leap into your gullet and sing a chantey as he goes down.
Cinderella just told Prince Charming to go take a flying leap.
How about we take a flying leap?
Oh, sugar, listen, will you rush out and leap into that ermine gunnysack?
Aw, Jamie-Boy. there's hundreds of wenches prettier than her. all ready to leap into your arms if you give them a whistle.
But, Mr. Norton of all the cases on record there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train.
Why does my heart not leap up when he arrives?
Don't leap on this while it's a-goin'.
Tell him to go take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut.
Ms. Davenport, taking the leap from the monster we see before our eyes to the Blessed, who have ruled this world from the shadows for centuries, isn't that a bit of a stretch?
Leap for joy?
Is this a leap year, by any chance?
She did leap.
But, Mr. Norton. of all the cases on record there's not one single case of suicide by leap. from the rear end of a moving train.
He wouldn't dream of leaping after me the way I'd leap after him.
Your senses shall leap to it.
We hope to achieve exciting new techniques, leap years ahead of the others.
Roberts makes a tremendous leap and he's got it.
He never walks when he can leap.
Ha ha. I never leap when I can walk.
Leap!
But in one leap, they are closer by 3 km.
You never felt the slightest inclination to leap before an approaching express train.
On Golly's leap.
Well, then have him leap back to Mr. Gale's place.
You leap to conclusions.
In one moment, we may be able to leap ahead another 2,000 years.
All of you leap out and kill him!

News and current affairs

Only when markets were deregulated and liberalized from the early 1970's onwards did finance once again leap ahead.
The warrant was no leap forward.
Of course, there was no way to short the Great Leap Forward.
The Great Leap Forward had aspects of a Ponzi scheme, an investment fraud which attempts to draw in successive rounds of investors through word-of-mouth tales of outsize returns.
The Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution that followed it, was a calculated effort to create a social contagion of ideas.
In today's fast-paced world, it takes only a single technological improvement, price advantage, or great viral advertising campaign for a competitor to leap ahead.
This predilection harkens back to the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, when scrap metal was melted to meet wildly optimistic steel-production targets, thereby advancing Mao's dream of rapid industrialization.
This is another reason why Chinese policymakers must not jump on the New Economy bandwagon as an attempt to leap magically out of their problems into some utopian future.
China has seen enough experimentation over the last half-century to know that when you attempt a great leap forward you land flat on your face.
The harshness of the subsequent industrialization campaign culminated in the Great Leap Forward of 1958-60, producing a famine that killed 30 million people, mostly in rural areas.
Buoyed by assurance of recovery, the half-dead patient would leap out of bed, start running, jumping, and eating normally, and would soon be restored to full vigor.
A technological leap that raises the wages of the skilled and educated will induce others to become skilled and educated, restoring balance so that inequality does not grow too much.
Like religion, the nation-state myth requires a leap of faith.
First, their monitoring of markets requires a quantum leap in sophistication and speed.
Admittedly, getting to a much higher price for gold is not quite the leap of imagination that it seems.
But he never took the leap, and the major issues remain unresolved.
He is widely credited for setting the country's agenda, and for being the motor behind the liberal economic reforms that since 2004 have meant a qualitative leap in the Egyptian economy.
China's Great Leap Forward in 1958-61 was a market-less investment bubble.
Moreover, anything beyond that traditional conception of space required a considerable conceptual leap, while the cosmological term made no measurable difference to other predictions.
If the EU cannot get its act together to confront a crisis directly affecting its member countries, why should others leap into action?
What might look like a small step for mankind is certainly a giant leap for Europe.
This alone amounts to a great leap forward for intellectual freedom.

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