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lead

/ˈliːd/

verb22

  1. to show someone the way by going with them or in front of them
  2. To guide or conduct.
  3. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
  4. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
  5. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
  6. To be a cause of.
  7. To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
  8. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
  9. To proceed in front of others; to go first.
  10. To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
  11. To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
  12. To have the highest interim score in a game.
  13. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
  14. To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
  15. (figurative) To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
  16. To live or experience (a particular way of life).
  17. Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
  18. To begin, to be ahead.
  19. To begin a game, round, or trick, with
  20. To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
  21. To step off base and move towards the next base.
  22. To lead climb.

noun30

  1. Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
  2. Hypothesis that has not been pursued
  3. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
  4. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
  5. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
  6. The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  7. The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  8. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
  9. (UK) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  10. The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
  11. Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  12. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
  13. (US) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
  14. In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
  15. A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
  16. The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
  17. The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  18. The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  19. A channel of open water in an ice field.
  20. The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
  21. The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
  22. The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
  23. The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
  24. The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  25. A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
  26. The course of a rope from end to end.
  27. A lode.
  28. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
  29. The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  30. The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

adjective2

  1. Foremost.
  2. Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
lead
/ˈlɛd/

noun9

  1. A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82.
  2. A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
  3. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
  4. [in the plural] X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
  5. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  6. A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  7. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
  8. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  9. Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

verb2

  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  2. (historical) To place leads between the lines of.
forms

leaded · led · leddest · ledst · leading · leadeth · leads · leadest

Phrases with lead

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