different between rush vs leap

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: Rush
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskij?, borrowed from Latin r?scum (“butcher's broom”) + *-j? (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

4. A wick.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Juncus): juncus

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrys?an (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hurskijan? (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run, hurry”).

Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. A sudden forward motion.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
2. A surge.

3. General haste.

4. A rapid, noisy flow.

5. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
6. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

   Synonym: zerg

7. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

8. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

11. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
12. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
   • c. 1683, Robert West, The further Exmaination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple, Barrister at Law

     A party of men […] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
2. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
7. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

   Synonym: zerg

9. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
10. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

11. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
12. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush (hurry)

Derived terms

• downrush
• rushing

Translations

Adjective

rush (not comparable)

1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Usage notes

Used only before a noun.

See also

• rushes

Further reading

• Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

3. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
4. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a human)

   • go leap her, and engender young devilings

5. (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)

1. The act of leaping or jumping.
   • 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics

     Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.

2. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
3. A group of leopards.
4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (mining) A fault.
7. 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 […]

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.
9. A salmon ladder.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

leap (not comparable)

1. (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)

1. (obsolete) A basket.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

2. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
3. Half a bushel.

Anagrams

• Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea