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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jump |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jump |
| Type of | increase |
| Has types | quantum jump, quantum leap |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jump, saltation |
| Type of | transition |
| Has types | quantum jump |
a successful leap from college to the major leagues.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bound, jump, spring |
| Type of | move |
| Has types | vault, bounce, bound, burst, caper, capriole, curvet, galumph, hop, hop-skip, leapfrog, ski jump, skip, spring, take a hop, overleap, pronk, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, saltate |
| Derivation | leaper |
The child leapt across the puddle.
Examples of leap
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This leap in fuel economy is positively Beamonesque, but how did Ford get there?
From the online.wsj.com
Watson is one giant leap for technology, one small step for the science of mind.
From the online.wsj.com
Chance made the leap from school picnic to blowout bash with Soulard Mardi Gras.
From the stltoday.com
His leap was his last hurrah because shortly afterwards, my Irishman landed him.
From the nzherald.co.nz
You control little Rocket Bob, who must leap between ledges with skill and ease.
From the hecklerspray.com
This leap forward comes thanks, in large part, to advances in genome sequencing.
From the newscientist.com
Schools and charities blame soaring prices for the leap in number of unfed kids.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This leap from the bar to the highest court in the land is almost unprecedented.
From the independent.co.uk
These are wild crocodiles who swim silently up to the boat and leap up for meat.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- Jump: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
- Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
- An abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
- Jump: a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"
- Jump: 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"
- Leap is the second album released by Drop Trio. The album debuted in 2004 and was self-released by the band. The album is noted as having been recorded entirely improvised in the studio.
- The Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) is a proprietary wireless LAN authentication method developed by Cisco Systems. Important features of LEAP are dynamic WEP keys and mutual authentication (between a wireless client and a RADIUS server). ...
- LEAPs (Learning and Enterprise Access Points) are education and training points located in market towns across Suffolk, United Kingdom. LEAPs are developed by the University Campus Suffolk, the local government and the East of England Development Agency. ...
