leapfrog

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/    美 /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/|/-fɹɔɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated. countable,uncountable
    — La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.
  2. The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court. UK,attributive,countable,uncountable,usually
    — The Supreme Court can hear appeals direct from the High Court under the ‘leapfrog’ procedure. This procedure is reserved for matters certified by the Supreme Court to be of general public importance—the type of issue which would ultimately be appealed from the Court of Appeal in any event. There are normally a few of these direct appeals from the High Court each year.
动词 v.
  1. To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog. transitive
    — Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.
  2. To overtake. transitive
    — This new product will leapfrog the competition.
  3. To progress. intransitive
    — [W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees.
  4. To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court. UK,transitive
    — In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court.
  5. To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward. transitive
    — In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.

词形变化

leapfrogs plural leap frog alternative leap-frog alternative leapfrogs present,singular,third-person leapfrogging participle,present leapfrogged participle,past leapfrogged past leap-frog alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
leapfrogger

词源

词源 1
From leap + frog.
词源 2
From leap + frog.
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