Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A basket.
- 2noun
A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4intransitive verb
To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
- 5transitive verb
To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
- 6transitive verb
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
- 8noun
The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
- 9noun
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- 10noun
A fault.
- 11noun
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
- 12noun
a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- 13noun
the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
"a leap of 10 feet"
- 14noun
an abrupt transition
"a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
- 15noun
a sudden and decisive increase
"a jump in attendance"
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- 16verb
pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
"leap into fame"
"jump to a conclusion"
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- 17verb
move forward by leaps and bounds
"The horse bounded across the meadow"
"The child leapt across the puddle"
- 18verb
cause to jump or leap
"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
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- 19verb
jump down from an elevated point
"the parachutist didn't want to jump"
"every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"
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