leap

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 [ˈlɪi̯p]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
  2. The act of leaping or jumping.
    — He made a leap across the river.
  3. Half a bushel.
  4. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
  5. A group of leopards.
    — Manikanta returned to the palace riding on a royal tiger accompanied by a leap of leopards to the utter surprise of the inhabitants of Pantalam.
  6. A significant move forward. figuratively
    — That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
  7. A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. figuratively
    — It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
  8. A fault.
  9. Copulation (by a male animal) with a female one.
    — Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
  10. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
  11. A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
    — He unfortunately persevered, and the cot veered round towards the fall of the leap, and was running fast towards the rapids, when Mr. Craven lost his self-possession, and jumped out to gain a rock within a length of him, but did not succe[e]d, and he sunk in a part of the river over the leap called the dancing-hole, from which he was never more seen to rise. The cot was dashed with violence against another rock […]
动词 v.
  1. To jump. intransitive
    — It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
  2. To pass over by a leap or jump. transitive
    — to leap a wall or a ditch
  3. To copulate with (a female beast) archaic,transitive
  4. To copulate with (a human) archaic
    — go leap her, and engender young devilings
  5. To cause to leap. transitive
    — to leap a horse across a ditch
形容词 adj.
  1. Intercalary, bissextile. not-comparable

词形变化

leaps present,singular,third-person leaping participle,present leaped past leapt past lept archaic,past lope obsolete,past leaped participle,past leapt participle,past lept archaic,participle,past lope obsolete,participle,past lopen obsolete,participle,past leaps plural leaps plural leep alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
beleap forthleap leapable leap ahead leap at leap down someone's throat leaper leap for joy leapingly leap into action leap out leap through hoops leap to mind leap up look before you leap outleap overleap upleap leap month leap smearing bearleap Byard's Leap Lambeau Leap leap day leapfrog leapful leaping lizards leap in the dark leapling leap of faith leaps and bounds leap second leap smear leap week leap year midleap nonleap qualitative leap quantum leap take a flying leap vertical leap seed-leap

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
词源 2
From Middle English lep, from Old English lēap (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
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