leap
/ˈliːp/ noun B2- The act of leaping or jumping. · He made a leap across the river.· 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A group of leopards.
- A significant move forward.
- A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. · It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- A fault.
- Copulation (by a male animal) with a female one.
- A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
Plural leaps
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But this one was so broad and deep that the Lion knew at once he could not leap across it.
Look before you leap.
Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses.
Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.”
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