leap

leap is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A basket. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A basket.
2. noun. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
3. intransitive verb. To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
4. intransitive verb. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
5. transitive verb. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
6. transitive verb. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
7. transitive verb. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
8. noun. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
9. noun. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
10. noun. A fault.
11. noun. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
12. noun. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

    Synonyms: bounce, bound, leaping, saltation, spring

13. noun. the distance leaped (or to be leaped)

    "a leap of 10 feet"

14. noun. an abrupt transition

    "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

    Synonyms: jump, saltation

15. noun. a sudden and decisive increase

    "a jump in attendance"

    Synonyms: jump

16. verb. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another

    "leap into fame"

    "jump to a conclusion"

    Synonyms: jump

17. verb. move forward by leaps and bounds

    "The horse bounded across the meadow"

    "The child leapt across the puddle"

    Synonyms: bound, jump, spring

18. verb. cause to jump or leap

    "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"

    Synonyms: jump

19. verb. jump down from an elevated point

    "the parachutist didn't want to jump"

    "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"

    Synonyms: jump

Synonyms

bounce, bound, leaping, saltation, spring, jump

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leap:

alep, lepa, pale, peal, plea

Common word forms

leaps, leaped, leaper, leapful, leaping, leapable

Words from these letters

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