(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
(v. t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
(v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
(n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
(n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
(n.) A fault.
(n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
(2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(3) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(4) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(5) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
(6) The idea was to create a simple set of standards that everyone can relate to, a low hurdle that every humanitarian organisation should be able to leap over.” As organisations grow, they can aspire to use more technical standards that more established NGOs might already be working with.
(7) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
(8) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
(9) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.
(10) The alliance has grown by leaps and bounds,” the official added, in a conference call with reporters.
(11) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
(12) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(13) This prompted the company to change the long-term bonus scheme, called Leap, to a less generous scheme that will come into force in 2018 and cap Sorrell’s pay at less than £20m, based on his existing salary.
(14) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
(15) She’s a normal girl thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so it’s very relatable.” Ridley’s leap from bit parts in British TV dramas to the biggest film franchise in the world is a legitimate overnight success.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Pokémon brand alone will probably be able to get many to give Pokémon Go a try Photograph: Niantic Labs “You know what the mobile gaming experience is like in a phone today, and we’ve all seen the videos from Magic Leap, at the far end of the spectrum, where we put on these magic glasses and our world is transformed.
(17) The club’s financial problems are likely to have a significant effect on the kind of manager Birmingham are able to attract and it remains to be seen whether someone like Rowett, who has impressed during his time in charge of Burton Albion, would be prepared to take that leap of faith.
(18) On the PS4, for example, as soon as you switch the console on, you'll get a news screen showing what all your friends are playing – you'll even be able to leap straight into their games.
(19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
(20) In fact, one doesn't have to make a leap of imagination because there are clues in its pay report.
Sprang
Definition:
() imp. of Spring.
(imp.) of Spring
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) Nasa was unclear why the suit sprang a leak, but said specialists would investigate the problem.
(3) Today, all those Ralphs and Toms, Percys and Horaces strike us as the most appalling prigs: we have forgotten the world from which they sprang.
(4) Many quangos sprang from political failure: the (reprieved) Food Standards Authority , for example, was a response to the collapse in public trust triggered by the badly handled BSE crisis.
(5) In an earlier version of the piece these words followed: "He sprang a coup de theatre surprise that forced audiences to examine their own complicity in racism" – it would have helped if they'd been left in.
(6) That was a ridiculous thing to say only two years after the events in Cyprus that sprang me off on the play.
(7) A radio station sprang up full of voices denouncing Tutsis as less than human, as devils and the enemy, prompting periodic local massacres during the early 1990s.
(8) Ek also sprang a surprise at the event, inviting Napster co-founder and Spotify board member Sean Parker and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on to the stage together, despite the band famously suing Napster in 2000.
(9) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
(10) The intimal thickenings, which occurred mostly in the region of bifurcation of the left coronary artery and at sites where branches sprang from the r. ventricularis anterior of the left coronary artery, were already discernible at the beginning of the period in question (i.e.
(11) Giaccherini's header from Adam Johnson's excellent cross was text book, sending the ball back the way it came and bound for the inside of De Gea's right hand post, before the goalkeeper sprang back across his goal to claw it away.
(12) Inside Upper Sharia Court 4, officials sprang into action, unsurprised by the violent turn in the trial of seven men accused of being homosexual in the ultraconservative Nigerian state of Bauchi.
(13) The protest is reminiscent of the occupation that sprang up at St Paul's Cathedral in 2011 .
(14) We have previously reported that hyperthermia induces the expression of a heat shock gene in the rabbit brain (Sprang and Brown, Mol Brain Res 3:89-93, 1987).
(15) In The Loop sprang from The Thick Of It, Iannucci's hit-and-run TV satire of New Labour-esque machinations.
(16) The campus occupations that sprang up over last term; the mobilisation of 130,000 students on 24 November; the mass demonstration on the day of the parliamentary vote; and then a revival of the movement, unexpected from some quarters, on 29 January – all were organised independently of, if not in defiance of, the NUS leadership.
(17) The chancellor was accused of failing to tackle the first-time buyer crisis, after he sprang a nasty surprise on those hoping to get on the property ladder by not extending the stamp duty holiday beyond next March.
(18) Angry voters tweeted, while others filmed the chaos on their phones and quickly sprang into action on Facebook .
(19) It stopped lending for two years after the crisis reached its peak in October 2008 but sprang back to life in 2010 to capitalise on demand from professional landlords.
(20) Zydeco's history, ongoing vibrancy and internal debates (chiefly focused around its omnivorous appetite for outside influences) are another story - but the roots of Prudhomme's music say much about the cultural collision from which it sprang.