leapfrog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: games
government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: From leap + frog.
Compound parts: leap
frog
Inflected forms:
form: leapfrogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leap frog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leap-frog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leapfrogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leapfrogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leapfrogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leapfrogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leap-frog
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.
Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops the mental powers, and sends forth the young boy-student from his Greek construing and his Latin hexameters to his leap-frog and cricket, with a zeal and an energy which he will never feel again when the school-room door has finally closed on him?
Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and then she made a mess of it.
gloss: The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
pos: noun
tags: UK
attributive
countable
uncountable
usually
examples: The Supreme Court can hear appeals direct from the High Court under the ‘leapfrog’ procedure. This procedure is reserved for matters certified by the Supreme Court to be of general public importance—the type of issue which would ultimately be appealed from the Court of Appeal in any event. There are normally a few of these direct appeals from the High Court each year.
An appeal to the Court of Cassation can be filed against judgments issued on (first) appeal, which means judgments issued in general by a court of appeals, even though the Code provides for judgments issued by courts of first instance that can be reviewed by the Court of Cassation through a sort of ‘leapfrog’ appeal; […]
gloss: To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.
gloss: To overtake.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This new product will leapfrog the competition.
If the following bus has no passengers who wish to get off, it may leapfrog the leader but will face the same delay at the next stop.
Blackpool thus achieved their first double over Liverpool since the 1946–47 season but more significantly they leapfrogged their opponents in the table with a game in hand.
Technology is developing so quickly that it occasionally leapfrogs over earlier technologies. For example, many areas of Australia did not have telephone service because they did not have a grid or wire system to deliver the signals. However, when cell phone technology became implemented Australians quickly incorporated this technology and leapfrogged over the grid system telephone requirements.
There's rain in the air, maybe the spring is turning back into winter now. […] Where nature leapfrogs spring and goes straight to summer, letting everything skip childhood. Maybe to avoid the torments and vulnerability of youth?
gloss: To progress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees.
gloss: To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court.
gloss: To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.
Derived words: leapfrogger
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