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verb (used without object)

to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.

to move or act quickly or suddenly: to leap aside; She leaped at the opportunity.

to pass, come, rise, etc., as if with a jump: to leap to a conclusion; an idea that immediately leaped to mind.

verb (used with object)

to jump over: to leap a fence.

to pass over as if by a jump.

to cause to leap: to leap a horse.

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noun

a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.

the distance covered in a leap; distance jumped.

a place leaped or to be leaped over or from.

10.

a sudden or abrupt transition: a successful leap from piano class to concert hall.

11.

a sudden and decisive increase: a leap in the company's profits.

Idioms

12.

by leaps and bounds, very rapidly: We are progressing by leaps and bounds.

13.

leap in the dark, an action of which the consequences are unknown: The experiment was a leap in the dark.

14.

leap of faith, an act or instance of accepting or trusting in something that cannot readily be seen or proved.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English lepen, Old English hlēapan to leap, run; cognate with German laufen, Old Norse hlaupa, Gothic hlaupan

Related forms

leap·er, noun

Synonyms
1. bound. See jump.

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Example Sentences

Though it has lost its importance to the modern feminine heart, nevertheless, leap year arrives backed by a venerable.

Community colleges may not immediately leap to mind as hotbeds of academic.

They could now leap from a world of cash to cellular banking.

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Though it has lost its importance to the modern feminine heart, nevertheless, leap year arrives backed by a venerable.

Community colleges may not immediately leap to mind as hotbeds of academic.

They could now leap from a world of cash to cellular banking.

The system resets every leap year, slipping a little bit backward until corrected by a century where no leap year is celebrated.

Not since the age of dinosaurs has the world known a roach with a vertical leap.

Bouillon cubes came into the world as a leap forward in time-saving.

Grafted roses leap out of the ground their first year.

Soldiers can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, yet.

My question is for those of you who have made the leap out of academia.

Or they swivel their knees, leap and then bend at the waist in a sudden bow.

But after watching a diver leap off the wooden tower reaching.

But further progress through successful application will result in a quantum leap in technology.

These creatures are simply a joy to watch as their white bodies leap from tree to tree.

Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses.

Any suggestions anyone can give me to make the leap into academic advising would be greatly appreciated.

Just one day after being born, wood duck hatchlings must take a frightening leap of faith to reach their mother.

Maybe the next evolutionary leap will not even be organic.

It is one small step for science education, and one giant leap for monster kind.

But only human explorers can raise the pace of discovery a quantum leap.

Ku says all aspiring scientific entrepreneurs should talk with others who have already made the leap.

To do so, he has to leap into some serious aerodynamics.

To think that means we're the only ones out there thoughwell, that's the actual leap.

There was nothing else to do except take that huge leap of faith.

Occasionally, the game will slow down to heighten a dramatic leap or near-miss.

It was a leap of faith, but the railroads did come and the town prospered.

Some leopards can leap seven times their own body length in a single bound, but that's not far enough to save them.

But the next step from excess heat to fusion, or anything nuclear, is nothing more than a leap of faith.

Getting all this to work in the real world required a leap of faith.

The leap from do nothing to doing something is the biggest.

They get mired in the particulars and cannot make the leap to the abstract ideas the writer is getting at.

It may have been one small step for the bongo antelopes, but a giant leap toward the survival of their species.

It is clear that there has been a leap in technology.

Exploring the evolution of modern air transportation, it is a giant leap beyond what came before.

Someone should have told them to look before they leap.

It can be hard to make the leap from a study to recognizing its potential impact if that's not your field.

The baby cats represent a small leap forward for the world's fastest land animals, which rarely breed in capitivity.

Hydrogen is a quantum leap past hybrid in terms of inefficiency and makes zero in the sense department.

Etsy, is the latest web personality to make the leap to prime time.

But there was a huge leap of faith there in the beginning.

But don't be surprised if people are reluctant to leap into what they perceive as a personal fight in which they have no stake.

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

It's not a big leap from these uncontested claims to say that sports create a market for the colleges that sponsor.

My mind hadn't made the leap to being turned on by breastfeeding.

But going from seventh grade straight into high school might be a much bigger leap.

Several times a day delivery people would stop in with ginormous handtrucks, and everyone would leap out of their way.

It doesn't have to be accomplished in a single leap.

The leap to the idea that the killings were racially inspired is almost as sad as the event itself.

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World English Dictionary

leap (liːp)

—vb (often foll by at) , leaps, leaping, leapt, leaped
1.	(intr) to jump suddenly from one place to another
2.	to move or react quickly
3.	(tr) to jump over
4.	to come into prominence rapidly: the thought leapt into his mind
5.	(tr) to cause (an animal, esp a horse) to jump a barrier

—n
6.	the act of jumping
7.	a spot from which a leap was or may be made
8.	the distance of a leap
9.	an abrupt change or increase
10.	music Also called (US and Canadian): skip a relatively large melodic interval, esp in a solo part
11.	a leap in the dark an action performed without knowledge of the consequences
12.	by leaps and bounds with unexpectedly rapid progress

[Old English hlēapan; related to Gothic hlaupan, German laufen]

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Word Origin & History

leap

O.E. hleapan "to jump, run, leap" (class VII strong verb; past tense hleop, pp. hleapen), from P.Gmc. *khlaupan (cf. O.S. hlopan, O.N. hlaupa, O.Fris. hlapa, Du. lopen, Ger. laufen "to run," Goth. us-hlaupan "to jump up"), of uncertain origin, with no known cognates beyond Germanic. The noun is O.E.

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hlyp (Anglian *hlep). Leap-frog, the children's game, is attested from 1590s.

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Computing Dictionary

LEAP definition

Language for the Expression of Associative Procedures.
ALGOL-based formalism for sets and associative retrieval, for TX-2. Became part of SAIL.
"An ALGOL-based Associative Language", J.A. Feldman et al, CACM 12(8):439-449 (Aug 1969).

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

leap

In addition to the idioms beginning with leap, also see by leaps and bounds; look before you leap; quantum leap. Also see under jump.

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