Plus vs Leap - What's the difference?
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sum of the previous one and the following one.
(colloquial) with; having in addition
and also; in addition
A positive quantity.
An asset or useful addition.
(arithmetic) A plus sign: .
Being positive rather than negative or zero.
Positive, or involving advantage.
(physics) Electrically positive.
(informal) To add; to subject to addition.
To jump.
* anonymous, Merlin
* 1600 , anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll , act 4
* 1783 , , from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , lecture 4, page 65
* 1999 , Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems , page 78
To pass over by a leap or jump.
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
To cause to leap.
The act of leaping or jumping.
* L'Estrange
* H. Sweet
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
(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.
A weel or wicker trap for fish.
(Webster 1913)
Plus is a related term of leap.
As nouns the difference between plus and leap
is that plus is plus while leap is (acronym).plus
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Two plus two equals four.
- A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
- I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred Euros' spending money!
- Let's go home now, it's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
Synonyms
* andAntonyms
* minusDerived terms
* plus signNoun
(en-noun)- He is a real plus to the team.
Synonyms
* (useful addition) asset * plus signAntonyms
* (useful addition) liability, minus * minus, minus signAdjective
(-)- -2 * -2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
- He is a plus factor.
- A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
Derived terms
* ** on the plus sideSynonyms
* (being positive rather than negative or zero) positive * advantageous, good, positiveAntonyms
* (being positive rather than negative or zero) minus, negative * bad, disadvantageous, minus, negativeVerb
See also
* add * addition * times ----leap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lepen, from (etyl) ‘to stumble’).Verb
- It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep
- I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?
- 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.
- It is better to leap into the void.
- to leap a wall or a ditch
- 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, springNoun
(en noun)- Wickedness comes on by degrees, and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural.
- Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- (Wyclif)