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Meanings of leap in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spring"
Examples for "spring"
1
The feed situation is still good because of really good spring rain.
2
Last year, 260 companies reportedly participated in the spring fair, for example.
3
Let us wait until March, until the spring of the new year.
4
I ain't had a good turnip since a year ago this spring.
5
Hardy; plant in early spring, or in the South in the fall.
1
Although the crisis magnifies Noonan's power, he remains bound by EU strictures.
2
Media reports are bound to underestimate the true scale of protest, however.
3
The market has been range-bound since late last week over political worries.
4
Likewise, the left thumb shall be bound to the right great toe.
5
The parts were bound for key military installations, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
1
Charles de Gaulle hardly intended to help jump-start the Israeli technology scene.
2
Imports would jump by almost 10 million tonnes this year, he added.
3
From which a number of people every year jump to their deaths.
4
Figures released today show a jump in British house prices in September.
5
I wasn't working that day, and I said, 'Can I jump on?'
1
We're leaping into other ones -launching new ventures, working from home.
2
Unfortunately, far from leaping to Mr Segundus's defence, Strange never even replied.
3
In the court the boys-itwas the dinner hour-wereleaping and running.
4
The Turks are alongside; they are leaping down into the little craft.
5
His mind was already leaping ahead to what needed to be done.
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Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce'.
2
Still, Elmore said with optimal weather conditions, production potential could bounce back.
3
Margins will bounce back when the global economy improves, the company said.
4
You can see in the new version, there's way, way less bounce.
5
The bounce helped lift equities in both the US and the Europe.
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He conjectures, for example, how saltation and orthogenesis might jointly explain phyletic sequences of limb rudimentation:
2
He then summarizes Mivart's structuralist alternative, describing first the claim for channeling, and then the argument for saltation.
3
That moral saltation is very necessary to political success at Leaplow, and quite probably in many other places.
4
Its characteristic dunes and ripples are the kind formed by sand particles taking short wind-borne hops, a process called saltation.
5
The existence of a few intermediary species shows that the full sequence proceeds by punctuational steps and not by full saltation.
Usage of leap in English
1
Its leap bore it to a point far short of my position.
2
At the time Wright said the move was: no great psychological leap.
3
However, the big leap in deductibles offsets the good news for consumers.
4
Tsinoy hears, however, and makes another creative leap-withanother, more important question.
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However, a decisive leap forward has been mooted by 26 African nations.
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Perhaps the time is exactly right to pinpoint and leap for dreams.
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Chinese traders have said they expected the imports to leap next year.
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Before making the leap into collaboration, it's important to consider potential problems.
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A leap of faith is required, even when the data is clear.
10
The gates were closed; they leap the walls and force the guards.
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If this is perhaps a leap too far two things are certain.
12
Then a second human shape joined the first, in a great leap.
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But given Whitehall's history, it remains a great leap in the dark.
14
Malnutrition rates, already double those of last year, are poised to leap.
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A quantum leap in the real sense of the term, she said.
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The 19-year-old's leap is also a New Zealand National & Resident record.
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Leap through the time
Leap across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
South Africa
Common
Ireland
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