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Marco Barotsee Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Are leap and jump synonyms?

Hello there!

As the title says:

Are the two words/verbs: jump and leap, to jump and to leap perfectly exchangeable?
If not, which are the circumstances where to use them right?

Thanks to everyone who will answer!
  

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Hi, The dictionary will give you the detailed definitions. Let me just add my subjective feeling that, generally speaking, 'leap' sounds more forceful, more energetic. more athletic, more dramatic, more sudden, and even more literary and more poetic.

— Clive

  • Hi, The dictionary will give you the detailed definitions.
  • Let me just add my subjective feeling that, generally speaking, 'leap' sounds more forceful, more energetic.
  • more athletic, more dramatic, more sudden, and even more literary and more poetic.
  • It's also less common.
  • Clive
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Hi,

The dictionary will give you the detailed definitions.



Let me just add my subjective feeling that, generally speaking, 'leap' sounds more forceful, more energetic. more athletic, more dramatic, more sudden, and even more literary and more poetic.

It's also less common.



Clive
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Pretty close; no doubt there are some collocations or idioms where only one of them works.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jumped over the candlestick.
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An unexpected loud noise might make you jump, but it would not make you leap.
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khoffAn unexpected loud noise might make you jump, but it would not make you leap.
Oh! Bull's eye!
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