leap
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Is leap a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of leap?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To jump.Examples: "It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep"; "I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?"; "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."Synonyms: bound, hop, jump, spring, bound, hop, jump, springintransitive
2. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.Examples: "to leap a wall or a ditch"; "Deep folly! yet that this could be— That I could wing my will with might To leap the grades of life and light, And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]"transitive
3. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)archaictransitive
4. (archaic) To copulate with (a human)Examples: "go leap her, and engender young devilings"archaic
5. (transitive) To cause to leap.Examples: "to leap a horse across a ditch"transitive
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A significant move forward.Examples: "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."figuratively
2. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.Examples: "It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs."figuratively
3. (mining) A fault.
4. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
adj (English)
1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.not-comparable
name (English)
1. (computing) Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
2. (computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.
Definition source: Wiktionary