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Meaning of leap | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Standard
liːp

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

العربية القفزة وثب
Azərbaycanca sıçrayış
Български скачам скок
Català salt saltar
Dansk hop hoppe spring springe
Esperanto eksalti
Español bisiesto brincar brinco saltar salto
Eesti hüppama
Français bissextile bond bondir saut sauter
Gaeilge léim
Gàidhlig leum
ગુજરાતી કૂદવું
עברית קפץ
Հայերեն ցատկել
Bahasa Indonesia lompat lompatan loncat melompat meloncat
ქართული ნახტომი ხტომა
ខ្មែរ បង្គ្រប់
Kurdî hop pêke salt sarî spring sûs
Lëtzebuergesch sprangen
Te Reo Māori pēke
Македонски отскокнува скокнува
Монгол үсрэх харайх
Malti qabża
Nederlands huppen springen sprong wippen
Português saltar salto
Română salt salță săltare sări
Српски peke šalio skakač skok šprung šus скок
Svenska hopp hoppa språng springa
தமிழ் தாவு பாய்
ไทย เผ่น
Tagalog luksuhin lumukso lumundag lundagin
Tiếng Việt thành tích tiền bo

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; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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