| 单词 | leap-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleap-up b. transferred and figurative esp. An abrupt movement or change; a sudden transition. Also with an adverb, as leap-up. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > suddenness > [noun] > sudden movement or change leapc1000 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > sudden, marked, or notable advance shoot1752 leap-up1875 leap forward1961 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 264 De saltu lunæ... Þæt is ðæs monan hlyp for þan þe he oferhlypð ænne dæg. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 39 Þe heorte is a ful wilde beast & makeð moni Licht lupe as seið [seint gregori] Nichil corde fugacius. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 72 Ful light of lepes has thou bene ay. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1767 And for-þi, sonë, wole I make a leepe ffrom hem [stories], and go wole I to þe empryse þat I first took. 1577–87 R. Holinshed Chron. (1808) IV. 653 Leaving the lord lieutenant for a while, we will give a little leape to actions of manhood against the enimie. 1592 F. Bacon Observ. Libel in Wks. (1826) V. 412 One Barrow..made a leap from a vain and libertine youth, to a preciseness in the highest degree. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 238 'Tis justly matter of amazement, for a man in the leap of the one, or in the tumble of either of these, to retain a mind unaltered. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons iii. 27 Thus in a very few Years the Commons proceeded so far as to wrest even the Power of chusing a King, entirely out of the Hands of the Nobles; which was so great a Leap..that [etc.]. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) i. 7 The leap of the stamens of the Kalmia from their niches in the corolla. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xi. 289 The boulders and débris..came in frequent leaps and rushes down the precipice. 1875 E. Dowden Shakespere: his Mind & Art 86 The energy, the leap-up, the direct advance of the will of Helena. 1899 A. M. Fairbairn Catholicism i. 89 Every attempt..to discover method and progress in creation, without leap or gap, violence or interference..was [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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