leaping

/liːp/

US pronunciation

American sound/liːp/

leaping

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

lea - ping -> leaping

Myanmar meaning

(v[ing]) ခုန်နေ

Full entry

leap /li:p /v

( pt, pp leapt / lept /or leaped / li:pt/)
၁။ (က) ခုန်သည်။ ခုန်ပေါက်သည်။ လွှားသည်။ ခုန်တက် သည်။ ခုန်ကျော်သည်။ The children leapt up and down with excitement. ❍ leap over a ditch / puddle ❍ He leaped onto the train as it started to move. ❍ (fig ) My heart leapt (for joy) at the news.
(ခ) ရုတ်တရက်ခုန်သည်၊ လွှားသည်၊ ထသည်။ ခုန်ပေါက် သွားသည်။ leap across the room / into one’s car / upstairs ❍ They leapt into action immediately. ❍ She leapt to her feet (ie stood up quickly). ❍ leap to sb’s defence (ie by speaking in support of them) ❍ His name seemed to leap out at me from the page.
၂။ ရုတ်တရက် ခုန်တက် သွားသည်။ Shares leapt from 476p to close at 536p. ❍ Membership has leapt in the last six months. ❍ JUMP¹
n
၁။ ခုန်လွှားခြင်း။ He crossed the garden in three leaps.
၂။ ရုတ်တရက် ထိုးတက်သွားခြင်း။ a leap in prices / oil production / the number of people out of work ❍ a leap of faith / imagination. ထူးထူးခြားခြား စွန့်စွန့်စားစား အတွေး အခေါ်၊ စိတ်ကူး။ ထူးခြားစွန့်စားသော အယူအဆ(သို့) စိတ်ကူး။ See also QUANTUM LEAP
v (-gg- ) ဖားခုန်ခုန်သည်။ ကျော်လွှားခုန်တက်သည်။ (fig) a company leap-frogging (over) its competitors to gain the biggest market share.
❏ by/in leaps and bounds [IDM ] ရုတ်ခြည်းဆိုသလို။ Her health is improving in leaps and bounds.
❏ leap at sth [PHRV ] ပေါ်လာသည့် အခွင့်အရေးကို မဆိုင်းမတွ အရယူသည်။ She leapt at the chance to go to America.
❏ leap-frog n [U] ဖားခုန်ပြေးကစားနည်း။
❏ leaping adj တလွှားလွှား လိပ်တက်နေသော။ leaping waves / flames.
❏ leap year n လေးနှစ်တစ်ကြိမ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလတွင် တစ်ရက် တိုး၍ ၂၉ ရက်ရှိသောနှစ်။ ရက်ထပ်နှစ်။
❏ look before you leap [IDM ] (saying ) ချင့်ချင့်ချိန်ချိန် သုခမိန်။ နှိုင်းနှိုင်းချိန်ချိန် သုခမိန်။

More examples

She leapt to her feet (=suddenly stood up) when she saw me.
[leap into/out of/from something] : The suspect was seen leaping into a car and speeding off.
He leapt out of bed.
People were forced to leap to safety from the burning building.
[leap into/from/onto] : She leapt into the air with joy.
The horse leapt the fence and galloped off down the track.
Sales have leapt 43% this quarter.
The action then leaps forward to 1989, when Rose is an elderly woman.

Synonyms

jump, bound, dive, soar, fly, hurdle, advance, arise, ascend, bounce, caper, cavort, clear, climb, escalate, escalation, frisk, go up, hike, hop, increase, jump; increase, lop, mount, rise, rocket, saltate, shoot up, skip, spike, spring, surge, upsurge, upswing, vault

Antonyms

allow, decline, decrease, descend, drop, lower, permit

Cross references

jump bound dive soar fly hurdle advance arise ascend bounce caper cavort clear climb escalate escalation frisk go up hike hop increase jump; increase lop mount rise rocket saltate shoot up