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English

Etymology

Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupanan (cf. Dutch lopen ‘to stroll, go for a walk’, German laufen ‘to run’, Danish løbe), from Proto-Indo-European (cf. Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

Pronunciation

Initialism

LEAP

  1. Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To jump from one location to another.
    • circa 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

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
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) m.
  • Portuguese: salto (pt) m.
  • Russian: (rarely) скачок m.
  • Scottish Gaelic: leum (gd) m.
  • Swedish: hopplängd (sv) c., språnglängd (sv) c.
  • Vietnamese: quãng cách nhảy qua
significant move forward
  • Danish: spring (da) n., hop (da) n.
  • Dutch: sprong (nl) m.
  • Finnish: hyppy, hyppäys
  • German: Sprung (de) m.
  • Japanese: 飛躍 (ひやく, hiyaku); 躍進 (やくしん, yakushin)
  • Polish: krok (pl) m., skok (pl) m.
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