Difference between Jump and Leap

What is the difference between Jump and Leap?

Jump as a verb is to propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. while Leap as a verb is to jump from one location to another.

Jump

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. 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. To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward. To attack suddenly and violently. To force to jump.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: exactly; precisely

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of propelling oneself into the air. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. A jumping move in a board game. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. An early start or an advantage. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

Example sentence: Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Leap

Part of speech: initialism

Definition: Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of leaping or jumping.The distance traversed by a leap or jump.A significant move forward.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To jump from one location to another.

Example sentence: If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

We hope you now know whether to use Jump or Leap in your sentence.

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