Throb vs Leap - What's the difference?
throb | leap |
To pound or beat rapidly or violently
To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm
# (of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
A beating, vibration or palpitation
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, My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs , presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country}}
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)
As nouns the difference between throb and leap
is that throb is a beating, vibration or palpitation while leap is (acronym).As a verb throb
is to pound or beat rapidly or violently.throb
English
Verb
(throbb)Derived terms
* throbbinglyNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* throbber * heartthrobAnagrams
*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)