Definitions for leaps

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leaps leap

Spelling: [leep]

IPA: /lip/

Leaps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in leaps (aelps).

Definitions for leaps

noun

1. a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.
2. the distance covered in a leap; distance jumped.
3. a place leaped or to be leaped over or from.
4. a sudden or abrupt transition:
5. a sudden and decisive increase:

Idioms

1. by leaps and bounds, very rapidly:
2. leap in the dark, an action of which the consequences are unknown:
3. leap of faith, an act or instance of accepting or trusting in something that cannot readily be seen or proved.

verb (used with object)

1. to jump over:
2. to pass over as if by a jump.
3. to cause to leap:

verb (used without object)

1. to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump:
2. to move or act quickly or suddenly:
3. to pass, come, rise, etc., as if with a jump:

Origin of leaps

before 900; Middle English lepen, Old English hlēapan to leap, run; cognate with German laufen, Old Norse hlaupa, Gothic hlaupan

Examples for leaps

Again we take a leap of about twenty years, and alight in the midst of the Revolution.

He was throwing back the robe to leap from the sleigh when the figure reached him.

But in this case the leap from the known to the unknown is extreme.

Obviously, Sister Cristina had a change of heart—or a leap of faith.

Peter Christopherson made the leap to life on the bandstand and became a pioneer in the industrial music genre.

He had but to say to me, 'leap into the water,' and I would not have stopped to pull off my coat.

It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.

Tired and weighted, she dared not try the leap; she skirted around.

Kirkwood rose, balancing himself against the leap and sway of the boat.

Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way.