Leap

Initialism
LEAP


 * 1) Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

Verb

 * 1)  To jump from one location to another.
 * 2) * c. 1450 anonymous, Merlin
 * It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
 * 1) * 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
 * I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
 * 1) * 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
 * Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
 * 1) * 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
 * It is better to leap into the void.

Synonyms

 * bound, hop, jump, spring
 * bound, hop, jump, spring

Noun

 * 1) The act of leaping or jumping.
 * 2) The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
 * 3)  A significant move forward.
 * 4) * 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
 * That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Adjectives for Leap
dancing;  folded;   garrulous;   delicate; weary; laurel;  latest;  rueful;  retuse ; voluminous; withered; minutest; rustling; medicinal; sleeping; braided; tender; plaited; glossy; primordial; peopled; drifted; vibrant; blushing; nattering; needlelike; drooping; notched; lanceolate; stirring; succulent; heedless.

Adjectives for Leap
imperious; breezy; astonishing; demoniacal; sudden; flying; rash; concealed; vigorous; mortal; quick; tremendous; horrid; queer; bold; gathered.

Verbs for Leap
admire—; attempt—; calculate—; complete —; dare—; endeavor—; observe—; perfect —; practice—; rebound from—; record—, venture—; —amazes; —awes; —impresses

Adverbs for Leap
lissomely; simultaneously; blithely; sure-footedly; frolicsomely; nimbly; spryly; boisterously; perilously; demoniacally; boldly; vigorously; swiftly; agilely.

Thesaurus
accept, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amount, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, ascension, ascent, augmentation, avant-propos, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, bounce, bound, breakthrough, broadening, buck, buckjump, buildup, bundle, bustle, caesura, caliber, canter, caper, capriole, cavort, chase, clamber, clear, clearance, climb, climbing, coinage, compass, crescendo, crowd, curvet, cut, dance, dash, dash off, dash on, degree, development, discontinuity, discovery, distance between, double space, double-time, edema, elevation, em space, en space, enlargement, escalade, escalation, exordium, expansion, extension, extent, festinate, flood, foreword, fountain, fox-trot, freeboard, frisk, frolic, front matter, frontispiece, gain, gallop, gambol, get, get going, get moving, git, grade, greatening, growth, gush, gyring up, hair space, half space, hasten, height, hiatus, hightail, hike, hippety-hop, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hurdle, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, increase, increment, inflation, innovation, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, introduction, invention, jet, jump, jump at, jump over, lacuna, leap over, leapfrog, leeway, level, levitation, lope, lose no time, make haste, make tracks, margin, mark, measure, mount, mounting, move quickly, multiplication, negotiate, neologism, new phase, notch, novelty, nuance, overjump, overleap, overskip, overture, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, plunge, point, post, postulate, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, press on, presupposition, productiveness, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, proliferation, prologue, proportion, protasis, push on, quickly, race, raise, range, rapidly, ratio, reach, remove, rise, rising, rocketing up, romp, room, round, run, rung, rush, rush through, saltation, scale, scamper, scope, scramble, scurry, scuttle, shade, shadow, shooting up, single space, ski jump, skip, skip over, snowballing, soaring, space, space between, speedily, spout, spread, spring, sprint, spurt, stair, standard, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively, stint, surge, swelling, swiftly, take, takeoff, taking off, tear, time interval, tread, trip, trot, tumescence, up, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspring, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vault, verse, voluntary, waxing, widening, zooming

Etymology
lepen:, from hleapan:, from  (cf. Dutch lopen: ‘to stroll, go for a walk’, German laufen: ‘to run’, Danish løbe:), from  (cf. Lithuanian šlùbti: ‘to become lame’, klùbti: ‘to stumble’).

Pronunciation




Verb

 * Arabic: وثب
 * Breton: lammat, sailhañ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: saltar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  飛躍,  飞跃
 * Czech: přeskočit
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: hüppama
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: springen, einen Satz machen, hüpfen
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કૂદવું, ઠેકવું
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कूदना


 * Indonesian: lompat, loncat, melompat, meloncat
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 飛躍する (ひやくする, hiyaku-suru),
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Novial: salta
 * Polish: skakać/skoczyć, przeskakiwać/przeskoczyć (over something)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a sări, a sălta
 * Russian:, скакнуть ;  , прыгнуть
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: skočiť/skákať, preskočiť/preskakovať (over something)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hoppa, springa (older)
 * Tamil: பாய், தாவு
 * Vietnamese: nhảy (lên, qua, ...)
 * West Frisian: ljeppe

Noun

 * Catalan: salt
 * Czech: skok
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: léim f2
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 跳躍 (ちょうやく, chōyaku)


 * Latin:
 * Novial: salto
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hopp, språng
 * Vietnamese: bước nhảy, sự nhảy, việc nhảy


 * German: Sprungweite
 * Japanese: 跳躍距離 (ちょうやくきょり, chōyaku kyori)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: (rarely) скачок
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: hopplängd, språnglängd
 * Vietnamese: quãng cách nhảy qua


 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hyppy, hyppäys
 * German:
 * Japanese: 飛躍 (ひやく, hiyaku); 躍進 (やくしん, yakushin)
 * Polish: ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: скачок, рывок , прорыв , (rarely) прыжок
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: hopp, språng
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * : lamm, sailh (1)
 * : скок (1)
 * : 跳
 * : скок
 * : skok
 * : பாய்ச்சல்

Derived terms

 * by leaps and bounds
 * leap day
 * leapfrog
 * leaping lizards
 * leap of faith


 * leaps and bounds
 * leap second
 * leap year
 * look before you leap
 * quantum leap

Anagrams

 * pale
 * peal
 * plea