Meaning of leap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The act of leaping or jumping.
3. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
4. To jump
5. Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
7. Half a bushel.
8. To pass over by a leap or jump
9. A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.
10. A group of leopards.
11. To copulate with (a female beast)
12. A significant move forward.
    figuratively
13. To copulate with (a human)
14. A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
    figuratively
15. To cause to leap
16. A fault.
17. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
18. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
19. A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.

Equivalents

Examples

“He made a leap⟳ across the river.”

“Leaps from one Extream to Another , are Unnatural Motions in the Course of our lives and Humours”

“1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.”

“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.”

“I can see⟳ it now... a leap⟳ of Leopards eating the carcass of a Longhorn out in the Vista....”

“Without the Chop Chop Chop Chop Cowville seems almost normal: no hover of helicopters, no leap⟳ of leopards.”

“I felt like⟳ the only one of my kind, and all around me were the other kids in their groups like⟳ herds of wildebeests and prides of lions and crashes of rhinos and unkindnesses of ravens and leaps of leopards and wrecks of sea hawks.”

“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap⟳ for mankind.”

“Since the arrival of mainstream pornography platforms in the early 2000’s and the rise⟳ in smartphone use⟳, online pornography consumption has shown considerable year on year leaps.”

“It's quite a leap⟳ to claim⟳ that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.”

“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 […]”

“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 […]”

“[…] where the Esk divides it in the middle, and forms a linn or leap⟳, is named the How burn; […]”

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