What's the difference between leapt and leat?

Leapt


Definition:

  • () of Leap

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (2) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (3) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (4) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
  • (5) Questioner after questioner on the government benches leapt to defend Mr Hunt from a supposed rush to judgment.
  • (6) When it sounded the United goalkeeper leapt to his feet and grabbed Martin Skrtel, sparking a post-match melee, before collapsing in pain once again.
  • (7) This week, a new survey revealed that the number of packaged accounts available has leapt by 94% over the last four years, while the average monthly fee charged has jumped from just over £10 to almost £15 – or £178 a year.
  • (8) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.
  • (9) Hudson has always leapt about, working on titles from Fitness, to Company, to New Woman, to Maxim, to Eve.
  • (10) *applause* February 21, 2014 Reuters has more from the scene: After another open coffin was held aloft by the crowd, a protester wearing battle-fatigues leapt up to the microphone and triggered roars of approval as he declared: “By tomorrow we want him (Yanukovich) out!” Referring to the three opposition leaders, including boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, who were standing behind him, the man said: “My comrade was shot and our leaders shake the hand of a murderer.
  • (11) The only non-Kent town in the top five was Altrincham in Greater Manchester, where asking prices leapt by 21.9% to an average of £484,258.
  • (12) Critics of Peña Nieto leapt on Aristegui’s removal as evidence that the president was cracking down on a dissenting voice in a country where politicians enjoy considerable impunity and are rarely subject to serious scrutiny from much of the mainstream media.
  • (13) Wilfried Bony then leapt above John O’Shea to meet De Bruyne’s free kick.
  • (14) John Terry and Ledley King leapt to meet the rebound with the ball squirting away for Mata to volley from a tight angle into the mass of bodies in the goal-mouth.
  • (15) And the narrower claimant count measure leapt spectacularly through the 1 million barrier to 1.07 million in November, a rise of 75,700 from October - the biggest jump since March 1991 when the economy was also heading into a deep recession.
  • (16) They tell me I've earned it, to keep it, to squirrel it away – but if I was in it for the money I'd have leapt at the first advertising deal offered to me almost a year ago for an upmarket butter brand, and all the 50 or so since then.
  • (17) In the capital, prices leapt by 3.9% in January alone, to reach an average of £336,212.
  • (18) The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers , has leapt to the defence of Raheem Sterling, but insists there is no club versus country row between him and England’s manager, Roy Hodgson.
  • (19) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
  • (20) When the Ebola virus reached the US last year, the public health community leapt into action to address it.

Leat


Definition:

  • (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
  • (2) In 2004, a mother claimed that Leat had been taking pictures of her daughter with a mobile phone but he denied the accusation and no action was taken.
  • (3) The abuse went undetected at the school – where Leat taught for 15 years – until December last year when one victim told her mother that Leat had been touching her.
  • (4) Leat, 51, would swear his victims to secrecy and even write letters to them in which he would describe what he wanted to do to them and ask them to reply.
  • (5) Nicholas Gerasimidis, for Leat, said: "It might be said that had he not been in the position that he was that this interest may never have found an opportunity for expression."
  • (6) An féidir leat mé a dhíriú i dtreo sagart tuiscineach?
  • (7) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
  • (8) Another member of staff saw Leat projecting an indecent image of an adult on to a wall during a lesson, warning pupils not to tell their parents what they had seen.
  • (9) He said he would support anyone else who came forward and said they had been abused by Leat.
  • (10) Nigel Leat was jailed indefinitely last year for abusing children he taught, often when other pupils were present, and sometimes filming his attacks .
  • (11) Married father of two Leat, from Bristol, admitted 36 offences involving five pupils aged between six and eight over five years.
  • (12) Concerns were not followed up and this led to children not being protected from Nigel Leat.
  • (13) The court was told Leat became interested in images of child abuse on the internet 10 years ago when his marriage became "asexual".
  • (14) Leat was only arrested in December 2010, when a schoolgirl told her mother he abused her "every day apart from when the teaching assistant was in the classroom".
  • (15) The judge told Leat: "Your manipulation of the children was clever, cunning and insidious.
  • (16) Official records show that those who reported Leat's behaviour were told they should not "insinuate things" or "accuse him of things".
  • (17) Four neutral oligosaccharides (AraXyl2, AraXyl3, Xyl2, and Xyl3), isolated by preparative paper chromatography, were shown by enzymic and methylation techniques to constitute a series of beta-(1 leats to 4)-D-xylose and O-alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl-(1 leads to 3)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-D-xylose, respectively, the latter being a new compound.
  • (18) Nigel Leat, 51, a married father-of-two, groomed at least one girl a year and showered her with gifts, afforded her privileges and organised one-on-one teaching sessions.
  • (19) Ofsted carried out inspections and described the level of care afforded to children as "outstanding" during the time Leat, 51, was offending.
  • (20) About 30 parents and teachers watched at Bristol crown court as Judge Neil Ford QC, the recorder of Bristol, sentenced Leat to an indefinite term and ruled he must serve at least eight and a half years.

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