Definition of leap

"leap" in the noun sense

1. leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce

a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

2. leap, jump, saltation

an abrupt transition

"a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

3. jump, leap

a sudden and decisive increase

"a jump in attendance"

4. leap

the distance leaped (or to be leaped

"a leap of 10 feet"

"leap" in the verb sense

1. jump, leap, bound, spring

move forward by leaps and bounds

"The horse bounded across the meadow"

"The child leapt across the puddle"

"Can you jump over the fence?"

2. leap, jump

pass abruptly from one state or topic to another

"leap into fame"

"jump to a conclusion"

"jump from one thing to another"

3. jump, leap, jump off

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"

4. jump, leap

cause to jump or leap

"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"

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Quotations for leap

Look before you leap. [ Proverb ]

As the ancients wisely say
Have a care o' the main chance,
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow you are like to reap. [ Butler ]

She cannot leap an inch from a slut. [ Proverb ]

I am just going to leap into the dark. [ Rabelais ]

Where the hedge is lowest men leap over. [ Proverb ]

Let the best horse leap the hedge first. [ Proverb ]

Stumble at a straw and leap over a block. [ Proverb ]

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. [ Cervantes ]

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet. [ John Fletcher ]

By a leap; by passing over the intermediate steps.

He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch. [ Proverb ]

A tedious person is one a man would leap a steeple from. [ Ben Jonson ]

We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. [ Proverb ]

He, like Amphion, makes those quarries leap into fair figures from a confused heap. [ Waller ]

He who is an ass and thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he has to leap a ditch. [ Italian Proverb ]

Thoughts perhaps, which, like fieldmice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders. [ Richter ]

A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. [ Chapin ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

leap in Scrabble®

The word leap is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters leap:

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leap in Words With Friends™

The word leap is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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PEAL
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Word Growth involving leap

Shorter words in leap

lea

Longer words containing leap

fleapit fleapits

leaped outleaped

leaped overleaped

leaper leapers

leapfrog leapfrogged

leapfrog leapfrogger leapfroggers

leapfrog leapfrogging

leapfrog leapfrogs

leaping leapingly

leaping outleaping

leaping overleaping

leaps outleaps

leaps overleaps

leapt outleapt

leapt overleapt

leapyear

nonleap

outleap outleaped

outleap outleaping

outleap outleaps

outleap outleapt

overleap overleaped

overleap overleaping

overleap overleaps

overleap overleapt