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Etymology

Old English hlēapan, from Proto-Germanic *xlaupan. Cognate with Dutch lopen, German laufen (“‘run’”), Old Norse hlaupa (whence Danish løbe, English lope, Swedish löpa).

Pronunciation

Initialism

LEAP

  1. Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

Verb

Infinitive to leap

Third person singular leaps

Simple past leaped, leapt, or rarely lope

Past participle leaped, leapt, or rarely lopen

Present participle leaping

to leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped, leapt, or rarely lope, past participle leaped, leapt, or rarely lopen)

  1. (intransitive) To jump from one location to another.
    • c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
      It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
    • 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
      I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
    • 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
      Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
    • 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
      It is better to leap into the void.

Usage notes

The choice between leapt and leaped is mostly a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English and leaped in American English. According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.

Synonyms

Noun

Singular leap

Plural leaps

leap (plural leaps)

  1. The act of leaping or jumping.
  2. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
  3. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
    • 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
      That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Translations

the act of leaping
  • Latin: saltus la(la) m.
  • Novial: salto
  • Polish: skok pl(pl) m.
  • Portuguese: salto pt(pt) m.
  • Russian: скачок m., прыжок m.
  • Spanish: salto es(es) m.
  • Swedish: hopp n., språng n.
  • Vietnamese: bước nhảy, sự nhảy, việc nhảy
distance traversed by a leap
  • German: Sprungweite f.
  • Japanese: 跳躍距離 (ちょうやくきょり, chōyaku kyori)
  • Polish: skok pl(pl) m.
  • Portuguese: salto pt(pt) m.
  • Russian: (rarely) скачок m.
  • Swedish: hopplängd c., språnglängd c.
  • Vietnamese: quãng cách nhảy qua
significant move forward
  • Danish: spring da(da) n., hop da(da) n.
  • Dutch: sprong nl(nl) m.
  • Finnish: hyppy, hyppäys
  • German: Sprung de(de) m.
  • Japanese: 飛躍 (ひやく, hiyaku); 躍進 (やくしん, yakushin)
  • Portuguese: salto pt(pt) m.
  • Russian: скачок m., рывок m., прорыв m., (rarely) прыжок m.
  • Swedish: hopp n., språng n.
  • Vietnamese: thành tích vi(vi), tiến bộ vi(vi)
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Derived terms

 

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