Leapt vs Reapt - What's the difference?

leapt | reapt |

As verbs the difference between leapt and reapt

is that leapt is (leap) while reapt is (obsolete) (reap).

leapt

English

Verb

(head)

(leap)

Anagrams

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leap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lepen, from (etyl) ‘to stumble’).

Verb

To jump.

* 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 , , 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.

To pass over by a leap or jump.

to leap a wall or a ditch

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

To cause to leap.

to leap a horse across a ditch

Usage notes

The choice between leapt and leaped is mostly a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English and leaped in American English. 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

Noun

(en noun)

The act of leaping or jumping.

* L'Estrange

Wickedness comes on by degrees, and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural.

* H. Sweet

Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.

The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

(figuratively) A significant move forward.

* 1969 July 20, , as he became the first man to step on the moon

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

(mining) A fault.

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

(music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.

(obsolete) A basket.

(Wyclif)

A weel or wicker trap for fish.

(Webster 1913)

Derived terms

* by leaps and bounds * leap day * leapfrog * leaping lizards * leap of faith * leaps and bounds * leap second * leap year * look before you leap * quantum leap

Etymology 2

From (etyl) leep, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* leep

Noun

(en noun)

basket

a trap or snare for fish

half a bushel

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

reapt

English

Verb

(head)

(obsolete) (reap)

reap

English

Verb

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

* Bible, Leviticus

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.

To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.

to reap a benefit from exertions

* Milton

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?

* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7

For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7

(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* reaper * reap what one sows *

Noun

(en noun)

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.