I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cat leaps/springs
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Then the cat leapt up into the tree.
flames leap (= they go high into the air )
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Flames were leaping up the chimney.
jump to/leap to conclusions (= decide something is true without knowing all the facts, especially when you are wrong )
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Everyone jumped to the conclusion that we would get married.
jump/leap off the page (= be very noticeable )
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One mistake jumped off the page.
leap year
profits soar/leap (= increase by a large amount )
quantum leap
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There has been a quantum leap in the range of the wines sold in the UK.
swing/spring/leap into action (= suddenly start doing something )
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The fire crew immediately swung into action.
taken a quantum leap
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The treatment of breast cancer has taken a quantum leap forward.
took a flying leap
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He took a flying leap and just managed to clear the stream.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ahead
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Your school could leap ahead of the pack.
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I feel best when we leap ahead , cause the change our-selves.
forward
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Uttering a cry of disgust, Dauntless leapt forward and dragged Cleo up by the arm.
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It leapt forward as Delaney cried out and struck it a glancing blow with the torch.
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Here, there is no conferring, and Jack impulsively leaps forward with raised knife to kill it.
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It was brilliantly sunny, as though summer had leapt forward a few months.
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The horse was made to foil her every move, leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away.
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Some parents leap forward eagerly and some must be dragged to the battle lines.
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For one moment he looked as if he was raising his hands in surrender, then he leapt forward .
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The jeep dug dirt as it leapt forward .
over
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They tried to leap over the sandbags, but were too slow.
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Argyll leapt over the clattering boards and rolling stools.
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The object was to get your pieces from your corner to an opponent's corner by leaping over his pieces.
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She leapt over the ditch opposite the Martins' orchard wall and hurled herself into the undergrowth.
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He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace.
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With a whoop he leapt over a huge spreading puddle where a drain was blocked with litter.
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Like lemmings, we raced each other to leap over the cliff.
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Then the van was leaping over rough ground, getting out of sight of the road.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying jump/leap
by leaps and bounds/in leaps and bounds
sb's heart leaps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He leaped through the window and was gone.
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I leapt the fence to safety, leaving the dog snarling behind me.
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Shares leapt about 5% to $32.375.
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Tessa leaped onto the boat just as it was moving away from the bank.
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The bartender leapt over the bar and tried to stop the fight.
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The fish leaped out of the water.
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The price of gas leapt 15% overnight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one point I was forced to leap into a hip-high drift to avoid being run over by an oil truck.
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But what is all that leaping into each others' arms, Peli with his legs wrapped round Jairzinho's waist?
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David Laing had leapt to his feet again, spraying his neighbours with cold coffee.
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It was leaping in stillness to receive the Light.
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Men, on the other hand, might leap higher, suspend themselves longer, and whirl faster.
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The branch shattered in half, and the gulls crouched to leap , only to be sucked under the bow waves.
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They had leapt out, screaming murderously, but now they dropped all around us, dying and dead.
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We leapt from rock to rock, trying to synchronise the landing wobble into a launch aid.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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That is, of course, unless one assumes a big leap in productivity in Dept.
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This is all a big leap of faith.
giant
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One giant leap for Fleet Street's finest.
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We also might add that it took a giant leap of thought.
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Organisations may take giant leaps and consequently deal with the unfamiliar.
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This does not include the characters themselves, but that wouldn't now be such a giant leap to take.
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Even one small step on the path of your plan can be a giant leap !
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But it's a giant leap for trout, tench, roach, loach, pike, perch and bream.
great
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When she read the first word, J O E, her heart gave a great leap .
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The use of the sea lions is a great leap forward in whale-tracking technology, Hurley said.
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Certain genes make great leaps across the living world.
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Then came the great leap backward.
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Then her heart gave a great leap .
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He needed to walk, to run, to take great leaps into the air.
huge
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Scientific enquiry demands nothing less, and time after time huge leaps forward in understanding have been achieved in exactly that manner.
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It encompasses both the art of spin doctoring and also our fragile human need and ability to make huge leaps of faith.
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The tension, you might say, generated by that success caused crime fiction also to take a huge lateral leap .
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The men have these huge leaps , and the women are very expressive above the waist.
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The day had been a hummer: a huge leap nearer London.
imaginative
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Doing history does require an imaginative leap , and contact with real evidence from the past can often assist in this process.
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You have nothing to lose by trying out possible futures for size-it just requires an imaginative leap .
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Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian.
large
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They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward.
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Jumping two Post Office grades to get her job was an unexpectedly large career leap .
sudden
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There are sudden , dramatic leaps in small children's learning, interspersed with long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen.
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Why do people perceive a sudden leap in status from, say, four-and-a-half years to five and from nine to ten?
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He even thanked Ellen for this new, sudden , unexpected leap into maturity.
■ NOUN
forward
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The leap forward of the last 20 years was assisted by free movements of capital.
quantum
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By placing Franco in overall command, the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory.
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Agricultural technologies have revolutionized farm production, resulting in quantum leaps in output.
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The quantum leap expressed itself partly in population levels.
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The market is forcing the players to move on in quantum leaps in order to keep their market share.
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I think that there are two aspects to the question of a quantum leap in nuclear weapons.
year
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Knock! jokes are okay in small doses - like one every second leap year .
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This is a leap year , so use that extra day to plan some great outings.
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The leap year proposal ceremony was conducted near the player's entrance by Ayresome Park disc jockey Mark Page.
■ VERB
make
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Bukharin went on, however, to make a leap that did not necessarily follow from his previous line of thought.
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My mind would make these magic little leaps .
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Sounds are the means by which he makes the leap into the unknown.
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Jimmy Goddard has made a creative leap in linking the sites corresponding to the elements through the medium of sound.
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Yet some writers do make the leap out of the isolation of the self.
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Rincewind briefly considered making a desperate leap to safety.
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And at Niagara, guides pocketed tips by pointing to the exact spot where Sam Patch had made his last successful leap .
take
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But Christopher has a slightly different angle on why Agnew's have decided to take this leap into the present.
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We also might add that it took a giant leap of thought.
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But only 200,000 have taken a leap into the dark to buy non-privatised quoted shares.
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Carl Lewis took a golden leap further into history.
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You've got to take a leap .
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If not, some franchise will have to take a leap of faith.
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Organisations may take giant leaps and consequently deal with the unfamiliar.
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He just took a leap , held his breath, and stayed up.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying jump/leap
by leaps and bounds/in leaps and bounds
look before you leap
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Proceed with caution and, at the risk of sounding like a tabloid astrologer, look before you leap.
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Whatever you decide, it pays to look before you leap.
sb's heart leaps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Borrowers have been warned to expect another leap in bank interest rates.
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Coffee and orange juice prices made their biggest leaps on Friday.
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Gold shares gained following a leap in the price of gold.
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I can see the Internet business growing by leaps and bounds.
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Powell won with a leap of 27 feet, 10 inches.
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With a tremendous leap , James managed to catch the ball.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His spirits, which had dropped at her last words, rose with an irrational leap .
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In one leap , that acquisition made Northern Britain's biggest milkman, with approaching a quarter of the market.
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It encompasses both the art of spin doctoring and also our fragile human need and ability to make huge leaps of faith.
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Not the leap Halle believed it would be.
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The momentum derives not from a lulling flow or titillating suspense but from astoundingly acrobatic leaps from perch to perch.
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They will ride the surf or the bows of a vessel, constantly passing back and forth and making boisterous leaps.
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Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.