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# leap

«leap» in Mova's school dictionary: **to jump high or far** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (leap, leaps, leapt or leaped, leaping); noun (a leap, leaps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To leap means to jump high or far. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#m1)

2) To leap also means to move or act suddenly, like leaping out of bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#m2)

3) A leap is a big jump, or a big sudden change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#m3)

4) A leap year has 366 days, with an extra day at the end of February. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and nature lessons, frogs, deer and kangaroos leap. In maths and calendars, a leap year comes about every four years and February has 29 days; years divisible by 4 are usually leap years. In everyday talk, «leap at the chance» means to accept eagerly. Phrases: leap year, leap over, leap at, a leap forward, by leaps and bounds.

### examples

- The frog leapt into the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x1)
- The deer leaped over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x2)
- She leapt out of bed when she heard the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x3)
- It was a giant leap for science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x4)
- In a leap year, February has 29 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x5)
- The cat made a great leap onto the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x6)
- His reading has improved by leaps and bounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x7)
- He leapt at the chance to go camping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x8)
- The king leaped from his horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/#x9)

### note

Past: leapt (British, common in stories) or leaped (common in the USA); both are correct. A leap year has 366 days instead of 365. «Leap» is a bit bigger or more literary than «jump».

### In the corpora

- [Breaching means leaping out of the water; scientists think whales do it to signal, show off or knock off skin pests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/12/)
- [Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/15/)
- [Jumping spiders leap many times their body length by pushing blood into their back legs, and tie on a silk safety line first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/9/)
- [Sifakas are leaping lemurs that hop sideways on two legs across open ground and can leap about ten metres from tree to tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/7/)
- [Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leap» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leap/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.