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Leap
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- 1 Intercalary, bissextile. not-comparable
- 1 Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 A surname.
- 3 A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.
- 1 The act of leaping or jumping.
"He made a leap across the river."
- 2 A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- 3 a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards wordnet
- 4 The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- 5 Half a bushel.
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- 6 the distance leaped (or to be leaped) wordnet
- 7 A group of leopards.
"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."
- 8 an abrupt transition wordnet
- 9 A significant move forward. figuratively
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
- 10 a sudden and decisive increase wordnet
- 11 A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. figuratively
"It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs."
- 12 A fault.
- 13 Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
"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 […]"
- 14 A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- 15 A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
"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 […]"
- 1 To jump. intransitive
"It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep"
- 2 pass abruptly from one state or topic to another wordnet
- 3 To pass over by a leap or jump. transitive
"to leap a wall or a ditch"
- 4 move forward by leaps and bounds wordnet
- 5 To copulate with (a female beast) archaic, transitive
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- 6 cause to jump or leap wordnet
- 7 To copulate with (a human) archaic
"go leap her, and engender young devilings"
- 8 jump down from an elevated point wordnet
- 9 To cause to leap. transitive
"to leap a horse across a ditch"
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’).
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’).
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’).
From Middle English lep, from Old English lēap (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
Scottish and English surname, from the noun leap (“basket”). Compare Leeper.
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