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121leap — 1. verb /liːp/ To jump from one location to another. It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep Syn: bound, hop, jump, spring 2 …
122leap — [OE] Prehistoric Germanic *khlaupan was the source of English leap, and of its relatives German laufen and Dutch loopen (these both denote ‘run’, a meaning which leap used to have – and which is preserved in its first cousins lope [15], a… …
123leap of faith — leaps of faith N COUNT: a N in sing If you take a leap of faith, you do something even though you are not sure it is right or will succeed. Take a leap of faith and trust them …
124leap year — The dominant belief about leap year is that it is the only time that a woman may propose marriage to a man, rather than what was considered to be the natural order of things: the other way round. This was often called The Ladies Privilege . At …
125leap year — a unit of civil time equal to 366 days. See year2. Normally, the day of the week on which a specific date falls advances by one day from year to year. For example, August 1 falls on Tuesday in 2006 and on Wednesday in 2007. But following the… …
126leap — [OE] Prehistoric Germanic *khlaupan was the source of English leap, and of its relatives German laufen and Dutch loopen (these both denote ‘run’, a meaning which leap used to have – and which is preserved in its first cousins lope [15], a… …
127leap to the conclusion that … — jump/leap to conˈclusions | jump/leap to the conˈclusion that… idiom to make a decision about sb/sth too quickly, before you know or have thought about all the facts • There I go again jumping to conclusions. Main entry: ↑conclusionidiom …
128leap year — {n.} Every fourth year during which the month of February contains 29 rather than 28 days. * /During a leap year one must wait a day longer for one s February pay check./ …
