different between flee vs leap
flee
English
Etymology
From Old English fl?on, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: flea
Verb
flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)
- (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
- (transitive) To escape from.
- (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Derived terms
- beflee
Related terms
- flight
Translations
Anagrams
- elfe, feel, fele, leef
Middle English
Noun
flee
- Alternative form of fle
Scots
Alternative forms
- fle, flei
Etymology
From Middle English flye, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge, from Proto-Germanic *fleug?. Compare English fly, Dutch vlieg, German Fliege.
Noun
flee
- fly
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leap
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?p, IPA(key): /li?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English lepen, from Old English hl?apan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).
Verb
leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lopen)
- (intransitive) To jump.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
- 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4
- I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
- 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
- Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
- 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
- It is better to leap into the void.
- c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin
- (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
- (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a human)
- go leap her, and engender young devilings
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
Usage notes
The choice between leapt and leaped is often generally a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English whereas leaped is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that leapt is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.
Synonyms
- (jump from one location to another): bound, hop, jump, spring
- (jump upwards): bound, hop, jump, spring
Derived terms
- beleap
- forthleap
- leaper
- outleap
- overleap
- upleap
Translations
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A group of leopards.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]
- 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A salmon ladder.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
leap (not comparable)
- (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
Etymology 2
From Middle English leep, from Old English l?ap (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).
Alternative forms
- leep
Noun
leap (plural leaps)
- (obsolete) A basket.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
Anagrams
- Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea
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