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Definition: Leaping |
LeapingAdjective1. Moving upward and forward in a quick motion or series of motions; or characterized by leaps; "a leaping gait"; "the springing panther". Noun1. A light springing movement upwards or forwards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leaping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she will gain her desires after much struggling and opposition. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: LeapingSynonyms: springing (adj), bounce (n), bound (n), leap (n), saltation (n), spring (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Phrase: the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins; the eye glistening - "in a fine frenzy rolling"; the head turned; "when the going gets tough, the tough get going". |
Leap | Adjective: leaping; Verb: saltatory, frisky. |
Pleasure | Phrase: one's heart leaping with joy. |
Rejoicing | Phrase: the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire; "Laughter holding both his sides"; " le roi est mort, vive le roi "; "with his eyes in flood with laughter". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Leaping |
| English words defined with "leaping": anuran ♦ batrachian, Beach flea ♦ Counter-salient, cricket ♦ desert rat, Dipodomys phillipsii, Dissiliency ♦ Exilition, Exsiliency ♦ family Heteromyidae, frog, Frog hopper ♦ gerbil, gerbille, grasshopper, Gymnastical ♦ Heteromyidae, hopper ♦ jerboa rat, jig, jumping plant louse ♦ kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat ♦ leafhopper, Leaping pole ♦ Mooruk ♦ Outleap ♦ Phenakistoscope, Pocket mouse, Podura, Prosiliency, psylla, psyllid, pursued ♦ salient, salientian, Saltant, saltation, Saltatorial, Saltatorious, Saltatory, Saltigradae, Saltigrade, sand flea, Snow flea, Snow fly, Snow insect, spittle insect, spittlebug, springing, Subsultory, Supersaliency, Supersalient ♦ toad, toadfrog, Tree hopper, treehopper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leaping": Kangaroos ♦ LEAPING OVER THE SWORD, Leucadia ♦ sky surfing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "leaping": Tripudiary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | From the crawling ant to the leaping antelope (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts) Leaping about in time, I've found that there are some things in life that I can't change, and there are some things that I can. To save a life, to change a heart, to make the right choice (Quantum Leap; writing credit: Ya'ackov Lazar; Jonathan Paz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Leaping Love (1929) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pacific white-sided dolphin leaping. Lagenorhynchus obliquidens. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Leaping tuna caught with rod and reel at Santa Catalina. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate III. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Salmon leaping falls in southwest Oregon. Credit: Tilford. |  | Swordfish leaping on line. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Turkey leaping from tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leaping into the whirlpool. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Meehan's canines Featuring his celebrated leaping hounds / / Iannelli. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Miguel de Cervantes | You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile. |
Robert Browning | Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette resumed her work, but for more than a quarter of an hour she felt her heart leaping into her throat like a great ball |
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| "Leaping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.22% of the time. "Leaping" is used about 354 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.22% | 330 | 15,812 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.52% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.41% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 354 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "leaping": Leaping house ♦ Leaping pole ♦ Leaping spider ♦ one's heart leaping with joy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "leaping": bull-leaping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
leaping loafer | 23 |
leaping lizard | 18 |
leaping | 9 |
leaping frog | 8 |
leaping lizard wine | 6 |
horse leaping wine | 5 |
bull leaping | 5 |
leaping lotus | 4 |
horse leaping | 4 |
lanny leaping poffo | 4 |
leaping salmon | 3 |
gorge leaping tiger | 3 |
fountain leaping | 3 |
horse leaping vineyard | 3 |
dragon flying leaping tiger | 3 |
leaping tiger | 3 |
leaping lizard winery | 2 |
leaping vertical | 2 |
leaping dolphin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leaping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që kërcen, kërcim (bounce, bouncing, bound, caper, dance, fly, footer, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, spring, vault). (various references) | |
Arabic | قفزة (bound, jump, rebound, spring), قفز (bound, flier, gambol, glove, hop, jump, jump out, leap, leapfrog, leapt, lope, pop, skip, spring, start up, vault), وثبة (dart, gamba, leap, onrush, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, start, vault). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скоклив (frisky), скачане (saltation), прескачане (intermission, jump, vault, vaulting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 飞跃 (leap, Leaped, Leapt). (various references) | |
Czech | skákající. (various references) | |
Danish | springmulte (leaping grey mullet), plettet bonit (leaping bonito), klatreform (climbing formwork, jumping formwork, leaping formwork, rampant mould), afrikansk multe (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet). (various references) | |
Dutch | springharder (leaping grey mullet), gevlekte bonito (leaping bonito), gevlekte boniet (leaping bonito), Afrikaanse harder (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet). (various references) | |
Finnish | VE (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Leaping grey mullet, Venezuela), keltti-laji (leaping grey mullet, so-iny mullet), boniitti-laji (leaping bonito), afrikankeltti (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet). (various references) | |
French | saut (leap, leapt). (various references) | |
German | hervorspringende (saliently). (various references) | |
Greek | κέφαλος της Αφρικής (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet), στικτοπαλαμίδα (leaping bonito), γάστρος (leaping grey mullet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ תר (hopping, jumping), "לו' (jumping, omission, skip, skipping), תור (hop, jerk, jumping, skip, take off). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ugró (jumper, saltatory, skipper, skipping, springer, vaulter, vaulting), ugrás (breach, dive, flier, flyer, gambade, hop, jump, jumping, leap, skipping, spring, vault, vaulting). (various references) | |
Italian | verzellata (leaping grey mullet), verzelata (leaping grey mullet), palamita maculata (leaping bonito), musino (leaping grey mullet), cefalo verzelata (leaping grey mullet), cefalo saltatore (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet), cefalo (common grey mullet, flathead grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, leaping grey mullet, striped mullet, thick-lip grey mullet, thick-lipped grey mullet, thin-lip grey mullet, thin-lipped grey mullet), cassaforma rampante (climbing formwork, jumping formwork, leaping formwork, rampant mould). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飛躍 (activity, leapfrog). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おどり (dance, exciting, jumping, sketching, spring), ひやく (activity, leapfrog, nostrum, secret medicine). (various references) | |
Korean | 비약. (various references) | |
Manx | lheimyraght, lheim (bounce, bound, buck, embrace, flush, hop, jump, leap, limp, lope, pounce, spring, start, tup; jumping, vault). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eapinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tainha de salto (leaping grey mullet), tainha africana (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet), bonito saltador (leaping bonito). (various references) | |
Romanian | sãritor (hurdler, jumper, springer). (various references) | |
Russian | прыгающий, прыганье (saltation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skakanje (jumping), koji skače. (various references) | |
Spanish | galua negra (leaping grey mullet), galua blanca (leaping grey mullet), galua (leaping grey mullet), galúa negra (leaping grey mullet), galúa blanca (leaping grey mullet), galúa africana (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet), galúa (leaping grey mullet), gala africana (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet), bonito saltador (leaping bonito). (various references) | |
Swedish | hoppmulte (leaping grey mullet), fläckig pelamid (leaping bonito), fläckig bonit (leaping bonito), afrikansk multe (leaping African mullet, narrow-head mullet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрибок (bounce, bound, caper, curvet, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, pounce, prance, saltation, skip, souse, spirt, spring, spurt), стрибаючий, стрибання (bouncing, dancing, vaulting), скаковий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cybiosarda elegans, Liza saliens, Mugil capurrii, Mugil saliens. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exallomenoV esth kai periepatei kai eishlqen sun autoiV eiV to ieron peripatwn kai allomenoV kai ainwn ton qeon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et exiliens stetit et ambulabat et intravit cum illis in templum ambulans et exiliens et laudans Dominum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he lippide, and stood, and wandride. And he entride with hem in to the temple, and wandride, and lippide, and heriede God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sprage stode and also walked and entred with them into the temple walkinge and leapinge and laudynge God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And, jumping up, he got on to his feet and went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and giving praise to God. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Albanian | Dhe me një të hovur u ngrit në këmbë dhe filloi të ecë; dhe hyri me ta në tempull, duke ecur, duke u hedhur dhe duke lavdëruar Perëndinë. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa pag-ugpo pa niya, siya nakatindog ug nakalakaw; ug kuyog kanila siya misulod sa templo nga naglakaw ug nagluksolukso ug nagdayeg sa Dios. |
| Croatian | pa skoèi, uspravi se, stane hodati te uðe s njima u Hram hodajuæi, poskakujuæi i hvaleæi Boga. |
| Danish | Men straks bleve hans Ben og Ankler stærke, og han sprang op og stod og gik omkring og gik med dem ind i Helligdommen, hvor han gik omkring og sprang og lovede Gud. |
| Dutch | En hij, opspringende, stond en wandelde, en ging met hen in den tempel, wandelende en springende, en lovende God. |
| Finnish | ja hän hypähti pystyyn, seisoi ja käveli; ja hän meni heidän kanssansa pyhäkköön, käyden ja hypellen ja ylistäen Jumalaa. |
| French | d`un saut il fut debout, et il se mit marcher. Il entra avec eux dans le temple, marchant, sautant, et louant Dieu. |
| German | sprang auf, konnte gehen und stehen und ging mit ihnen in den Tempel, wandelte und sprang und lobte Gott. |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè yon sèl sote, li kanpe sou de pye l', li pran mache. Li antre nan tanp lan avèk yo, li t'ap mache, li t'ap ponpe, li t'ap fè lwanj Bondye. |
| Hungarian | És felszökvén, megálla és jár vala és beméne õ velök a templomba, járkálva és szökdelve és dícsérve az Istent. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu ia melompat berdiri, dan mulai berjalan ke sana kemari. Kemudian ia masuk ke Rumah Tuhan bersama-sama Petrus dan Yohanes, sambil berjalan dan melompat-lompat dan memuji Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka melompatlah ia, lalu berdiri, dan berjalan; kemudian masuklah ia beserta dengan keduanya itu ke dalam Bait Allah, sambil berjalan dan melompat-lompat dan memuji Allah. |
| Maori | A, ko tona mawhititanga ake, ka tu, ka timata te haere, tomo tahi ana me raua ki te temepara, e haere ana, e tupeke ana, e whakamoemiti ana ki te Atua. |
| Norwegian | og straks fikk hans føtter og ankler styrke, og han sprang op og stod og gikk omkring, og han fulgte med dem inn i templet, og gikk omkring der og sprang og lovet Gud. |
| Portuguese | e, dando ele um salto, pôs-se em pé. Começou a andar e entrou com eles no templo, andando, saltando e louvando a Deus. |
| Rumanian | dintr`o sqriturq a fost kn picioare, wi a knceput sq umble. A intrat cu ei kn Templu, umblknd, sqrind, wi lqudknd pe Dumnezeu. |
| Shuar | Tura niisha wajaki nantent ajakmiayi. Nuyasha wekasamiayi. Tura Pítrujaisha Juánjaisha Yusa Uunt Jeen wayawarmiayi. Nuik shutuapka Wayá nantent nantent ajak Yusa Náarin shiir pachimiayi. |
| Swahili | Akaruka, akasimama na kuanza kutembea. Halafu akaingia pamoja nao Hekaluni, akitembea na kurukaruka huku akimtukuza Mungu. |
| Swedish | och han sprang upp och stod upprätt och begynte gå och följde dem in i helgedomen, alltjämt gående och springande, under det att han lovade Gud. |
| Uma | Hangkore-i-dile mokore-e, pai' -i momako' hilou tumai. Ngkai ree, mesua' -imi hi rala Tomi Alata'ala dohe Petrus pai' Yohanes, momako' pai' mohajo-hajo mpo'une' Alata'ala. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "leaping": beleaping, outleaping, overleaping, upleaping. (additional references) | |
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"Leaping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lapang, laping, lauping, leapin, leeping, Legazpi, leibing, lepin, lepping, Leppings, Leupena. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leaping" (pronounced lē"ping) |
| 5 | l ē" p i ng | bleeping, sleeping. |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, creeping, heaping, keeping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sweeping, weeping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pealing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: alpine, genial, linage, paling, penial, pineal. | |
-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, aping, elain, genip, glean, ingle, lapin, liane, liang, ligan, linga, panel, penal, pilea, plage, plain, plane, plena. | |
-3 letters: agin, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gape, gien, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lean, leap, lien, line. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: elapsing, empaling, grapline, paneling, pearling, pedaling, pleading, pleasing, pleating. | |
+2 letters: appealing, beleaping, deplaning, emplacing, emplaning, enplaning, exampling, graplines, lagniappe, lappering, paltering, panelings, panelling, parceling, pargyline, parleying, pedalling, pellagrin, pleaching, pleadings, poleaxing, rappeling, relapsing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, salpinges, spanglier, upleaping. | |
+3 letters: antiplague, appareling, beclasping, calipering, depilating, empaneling, enclasping, escaloping, explaining, explanting, impaneling, impearling, impleading, impugnable, lagniappes, lightplane, lipreading, opalescing, outleaping, palavering, panellings, parcelling, pargylines, peculating, pellagrins, penalising, penalizing, plastering, plateauing, pleadingly, pleasingly, pleasuring, pregenital, preplacing, prevailing, rappelling, reapplying, reclasping, repaneling, replanning, replanting, repleading, resampling, spanceling, spangliest, unpleasing. | |
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