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单词 leapfrog
释义
leapfrog1 nounleapfrog2 verb
leapfrogleap‧frog1 /ˈliːpfrɒɡ $ -froːɡ, -frɑːɡ/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINleapfrog1
Origin:
1500-1600 Because the jumping players look like frogs
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Like leapfrog and friendships with older girls the teachers always put a stop to it.
  • More than 200 youngsters from North Road school in Darlington held a sponsored leapfrog to collect money for Oxfam.
  • Support vans play leapfrog with the runners, moving ahead a mile or so at a time.
word sets
WORD SETS
bar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb
a children’s game in which someone bends over and someone else jumps over them
leapfrog1 nounleapfrog2 verb
leapfrogleapfrog2 verb (past tense and past participle leapfrogged, present participle leapfrogging) [intransitive, transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
leapfrog
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyleapfrog
he, she, itleapfrogs
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyleapfrogged
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave leapfrogged
he, she, ithas leapfrogged
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad leapfrogged
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill leapfrog
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have leapfrogged
Continuous Form
PresentIam leapfrogging
he, she, itis leapfrogging
you, we, theyare leapfrogging
PastI, he, she, itwas leapfrogging
you, we, theywere leapfrogging
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been leapfrogging
he, she, ithas been leapfrogging
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been leapfrogging
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be leapfrogging
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been leapfrogging
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The Cubs knew a win would leapfrog them into second place.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Did 1973 respond to his plans to leapfrog into the elite who would be actually paid to drive?
  • Secondly, word hypotheses might overlap and leapfrog each other's backwards pruning decision points.
  • The chief barrier to leapfrogging is government policy in developing countries.
  • The intention was to allow London to leapfrog its rivals into a leading position.
  • The result is that the countries are, in some respects, leapfrogging their more advanced neighbours.
to suddenly become better, more advanced etc than people or organizations that were previously better than you:  The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position.
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