The difference between Jump and Leap

When used as nouns, jump means the act of jumping, whereas leap means the act of leaping or jumping.

When used as verbs, jump means to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne, whereas leap means to jump.

Jump is also adverb with the meaning: exactly.

Jump is also adjective with the meaning: exact.

check bellow for the other definitions of Jump and Leap

  1. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

    Examples:

    "The boy jumped over a fence."

    "Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high."

  2. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

    Examples:

    "She is going to jump from the diving board."

  3. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

    Examples:

    "to jump a stream"

  4. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

  5. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

    Examples:

    "The sudden sharp sound made me jump."

  6. Jump as a verb (intransitive):

    To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

    Examples:

    "The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop."

  7. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

    Examples:

    "I hate it when people jump the queue."

  8. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To attack suddenly and violently.

    Examples:

    "The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley."

  9. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To engage in sexual intercourse.

  10. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to jump.

    Examples:

    "The rider jumped the horse over the fence."

  11. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

  12. Jump as a verb (transitive):

    To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.

  13. Jump as a verb (cycling, intransitive):

    To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

  14. Jump as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

  15. Jump as a verb (transitive, smithwork):

    To join by a buttweld.

  16. Jump as a verb:

    To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

  17. Jump as a verb (quarrying):

    To bore with a jumper.

  18. Jump as a verb (obsolete):

    To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

  19. Jump as a verb (intransitive, programming):

    To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.

  20. Jump as a verb (intransitive, slang, archaic):

    To flee; to make one's escape.

  1. Jump as a noun:

    The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

  2. Jump as a noun:

    An effort; an attempt; a venture.

  3. Jump as a noun (mining):

    A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

  4. Jump as a noun (architecture):

    An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

  5. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

    Examples:

    "The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane."

  6. Jump as a noun:

    An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

    Examples:

    "He went off a jump."

  7. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

    Examples:

    "There were a couple of jumps from the bridge."

  8. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

    Examples:

    "She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving."

  9. Jump as a noun:

    An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.

  10. Jump as a noun:

    A jumping move in a board game.

    Examples:

    "the knight's jump in chess"

  11. Jump as a noun:

    A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

    Examples:

    "Press jump to start."

  12. Jump as a noun (sports, horses):

    An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

    Examples:

    "Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second."

  13. Jump as a noun (with ''on''):

    An early start or an advantage.

    Examples:

    "He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before."

    "Their research department gave them the jump on the competition."

  14. Jump as a noun (mathematics):

    A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

  15. Jump as a noun (science fiction):

    An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.

  16. Jump as a noun (computing):

    A change of the path of execution to a different location.

  1. Jump as an adverb (obsolete):

    exactly; precisely

  1. Jump as an adjective (obsolete):

    Exact; matched; fitting; precise.

  1. Jump as a noun:

    A kind of loose jacket for men.

  1. Leap as a verb (intransitive):

    To jump.

  2. Leap as a verb (transitive):

    To pass over by a leap or jump.

    Examples:

    "to leap a wall or a ditch"

  3. Leap as a verb (transitive):

    To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

  4. Leap as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to leap.

    Examples:

    "to leap a horse across a ditch"

  1. Leap as a noun:

    The act of leaping or jumping.

  2. Leap as a noun:

    The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

  3. Leap as a noun:

    A group of leopards.

  4. Leap as a noun (figuratively):

    A significant move forward.

  5. Leap as a noun (figuratively):

    A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.

    Examples:

    "It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs."

  6. Leap as a noun (mining):

    A fault.

  7. Leap as a noun:

    Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

  8. Leap as a noun (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. Leap as a noun (calendar):

    Intercalary, bissextile.

  1. Leap as a noun (obsolete):

    A basket.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Wyclif"

  2. Leap as a noun:

    A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.

  3. Leap as a noun:

    Half a bushel.

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