Leap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Leap	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Leap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leap n a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce] an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues" Synonym(s): leap, jump, saltation a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance" Synonym(s): jump, leap the distance leaped (or to be leaped); "a leap of 10 feet" v move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" Synonym(s): jump, leap, bound, spring pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" Synonym(s): leap, jump jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre" Synonym(s): jump, leap, jump off cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop" Synonym(s): jump, leap
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leap \Leap\, n. [AS. le[a0]p.] 1. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif. 2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leap \Leap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaped}, rarely {Leapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaping}.] [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hle[a0]pan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. [be]hl[?]pan, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G. laufen, OHG. louffan, hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa, Sw. l[94]pa, Dan. l[94]be, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. {Elope}, {Lope}, {Lapwing}, {Loaf} to loiter.] 1. To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. --Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. --Shak. 2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leap \Leap\, v. t. 1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch. 2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. 3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leap \Leap\, n. 1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. --L'Estrange. Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. --H. Sweet. 2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. 3. (Mining) A fault. 4. (Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
LEAP Language for the Expression of Associative Procedures. ALGOL-based formalism for sets and associative retrieval, for TX-2. Became part of SAIL. "An ALGOL-based Associative Language", J.A. Feldman et al, CACM 12(8):439-449 (Aug 1969).