Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LEAD

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Definitions of LEAD

1. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
2. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
3. To produce (with to).
4. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
5. 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.
6. Hypothesis that has not been pursued
7. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
8. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
9. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
10. Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
11. (uncountable) 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, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
12. (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
13. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
14. (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
15. (slang) bullets; ammunition.
16. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
17. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
18. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
19. (intransitive) 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.
20. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
21. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
22. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
23. (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
24. (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
25. (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
26. (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
27. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
28. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
29. (acting, theatre) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
30. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
31. (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
32. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
33. (countable, mining) A lode.
34. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
35. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
36. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
37. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
38. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
39. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
40. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
41. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
42. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
43. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
44. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
45. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
46. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
47. (not comparable) Foremost.
48. (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
49. (medicine, plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
50. Misspelling of led.

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