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leapfrog 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈlēpˌfrôg/,/-ˌfräg/,
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A game in which players in turn vault with parted legs over the backs of others who are bending down,
  1. Perform such a vault
    • - they leapfrogged around the courtyard
  2. (of a person or group) Surpass or overtake another to move into a leading or dominant position
    • - she leapfrogged into a sales position
  3. Pass over (a stage or obstacle)
    • - attempts to leapfrog the barriers of class
Noun
  1. A game in which players in turn vault with parted legs over the backs of others who are bending down

  1. advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors; "the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends"
  2. jump across; "He leapfrogged his classmates"
  3. a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
  4. progress by large jumps instead of small increments
  5. LeapFrog Enterprises Inc is an educational toy company based in Emeryville, California. LeapFrog designs, develops and markets technology-based learning products and related content for the education of infant through grade school children at home and in schools internationally.
  6. Leapfrog is a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs. The first participant rests hands on knees and bends over, which is called giving a back. Games of this sort have been called by this name since at least the late sixteenth century.
  7. The Leapfrog is the personal mode of transport for the Marvel Comics superhero team Runaways. The ship takes on the form of a large frog. Originally created by Janet Stein and Victor Stein, the Leapfrog was used by the Pride when they had to perform their Rite of Thunder for the Gibborim. ...
  8. (Leapfrogging) The concept of leapfrogging was originally used in the context of economic growth theories and industrial-organization innovation studies with specific focus on competition among firms. It is based on Joseph Schumpeter's notion of ‘gales of creative destruction’. ...
  9. (Leapfrogging (infantry)) In infantry tactics, leapfrogging (also called The Buddy System) is a technique for advancing personnel and/or equipment on or past a target area being defended by an opposing force. This technique is taught in U.S. ...
  10. (Leapfrogging (strategy)) Leapfrogging (also called "island hopping") was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. ...
  11. A children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs; To jump over some obstacle as in leapfrog; (business) To make obsolete; (military) To advance by engaging enemy with one unit while the other moves further forward; To progress as in leapfrog; To overtake
  12. (Leap-Frogging) The practice by each of two or more retirement systems (often in the same state or province) of obtaining in rotation better benefits for its members than those of the other systems.
  13. (leapfrogging) process for countries of the South more possible with advances in the 7Cs of ICT Development.
  14. To surpass your competition, usually by engaging in one gigantic, hopelessly ambitious leap of faith that is almost sure to end in ruin and despair. Bring a parachute, golden or other.
  15. The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America’s health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded.
  16. Telling Kermit to jump. - Joseph Leff