leap
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
Inflected forms:
form: leaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leapt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lept
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: lope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: leaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leapt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lept
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: lope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: lopen
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: leaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To jump.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
“See you, one should not ask for outside proof—no, reason should be enough. But the flesh is weak, it is consolation to find that one is on the right track. Ah, my friend, I am like a giant refreshed. I run! I leap!” And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window.
It is better to leap into the void.
gloss: To pass over by a leap or jump.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to leap a wall or a ditch
⁠Deep folly! yet that this could be—
⁠That I could wing my will with might
⁠To leap the grades of life and light,
And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]
gloss: To copulate with (a female beast)
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To copulate with (a human)
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: go leap her, and engender young devilings
gloss: To cause to leap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to leap a horse across a ditch
gloss: The act of leaping or jumping.
pos: noun
examples: He made a leap across the river.
Leaps from one Extream to Another , are Unnatural Motions in the Course of our lives and Humours
1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
gloss: The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of leopards.
pos: noun
examples: Manikanta returned to the palace riding on a royal tiger accompanied by a leap of leopards to the utter surprise of the inhabitants of Pantalam.
I can see it now... a leap of Leopards eating the carcass of a Longhorn out in the Vista....
Without the Chop Chop Chop Chop Cowville seems almost normal: no hover of helicopters, no leap of leopards.
I felt like the only one of my kind, and all around me were the other kids in their groups like herds of wildebeests and prides of lions and crashes of rhinos and unkindnesses of ravens and leaps of leopards and wrecks of sea hawks.
gloss: A significant move forward.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
Since the arrival of mainstream pornography platforms in the early 2000’s and the rise in smartphone use, online pornography consumption has shown considerable year on year leaps.
gloss: A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
gloss: A fault.
pos: noun
gloss: Copulation (by a male animal) with a female one.
pos: noun
examples: Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
gloss: A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
pos: noun
gloss: A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
pos: noun
examples: He unfortunately persevered, and the cot veered round towards the fall of the leap, and was running fast towards the rapids, when Mr. Craven lost his self-possession, and jumped out to gain a rock within a length of him, but did not succe[e]d, and he sunk in a part of the river over the leap called the dancing-hole, from which he was never more seen to rise. The cot was dashed with violence against another rock […]
[…] where the Esk divides it in the middle, and forms a linn or leap, is named the How burn; […]
gloss: Intercalary, bissextile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: beleap
forthleap
leapable
leap ahead
leap at
leap down someone's throat
leaper
Leaper
leap for joy
leapingly
leap into action
leap out
leap through hoops
leap to mind
leap up
look before you leap
outleap
overleap
upleap
leap month
leap smearing
bearleap
Byard's Leap
Lambeau Leap
leap day
leapfrog
leapful
leaping lizards
leap in the dark
leapling
leap of faith
leaps and bounds
leap second
leap smear
leap week
leap year
midleap
nonleap
qualitative leap
quantum leap
take a flying leap
vertical leap
Translations:
lang: German
word: bespringen