Leap

Definition

leap /li:p / v ( pt, pp leapt / lept /or leaped / li:pt /) ၁။ (က) ခုန္သည္။ ခုန္ေပါက္သည္။ လႊားသည္။ ခုန္တက္ သည္။ ခုန္ေက်ာ္သည္။ 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) ႐ုတ္တရက္ခုန္သည္၊ လႊားသည္၊ ထသည္။ ခုန္ေပါက္ သြားသည္။ 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။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ခုန္တက္ သြားသည္။ Shares leapt from 476p to close at 536p. ❍ Membership has leapt in the last six months. ❍ JUMP 1 n ၁။ ခုန္လႊားျခင္း။ He crossed the garden in three leaps. ၂။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ထိုးတက္သြားျခင္း။ a leap in prices / oil production / the number of people out of work ❍ a leap of faith / imagination. ထူးထူးျခားျခား စြန္႔စြန္႔စားစား အေတြး အေခၚ၊ စိတ္ကူး။ ထူးျခားစြန္႔စားေသာ အယူအဆ(သို႔) စိတ္ကူး။ See also QUANTUM LEAP v ( -gg- ) ဖားခုန္ခုန္သည္။ ေက်ာ္လႊားခုန္တက္သည္။ ( fig) a company leap-frogging (over) its competitors to gain the biggest market share. ❏ by/in leaps and bounds [ IDM ] ႐ုတ္ျခည္းဆိုသလို။ Her health is improving in leaps and bounds. ❏ leap at sth [ PHRV ] ေပၚလာသည့္ အခြင့္အေရးကို မဆိုင္းမတြ အရယူသည္။ She leapt at the chance to go to America. ❏ leap-frog n [U] ဖားခုန္ေျပးကစားနည္း။ ❏ leaping adj တလႊားလႊား လိပ္တက္ေနေသာ။ leaping waves / flames. ❏ leap year n ေလးႏွစ္တစ္ႀကိမ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလတြင္ တစ္ရက္ တိုး၍ ၂၉ ရက္ရိွေသာႏွစ္။ ရက္ထပ္ႏွစ္။ ❏ look before you leap [ IDM ] ( saying ) ခ်င့္ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္ သုခမိန္။ ႏိႈင္းႏိႈင္းခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္ သုခမိန္။

Examples

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