lead

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).

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A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.

A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.

A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.

Bullets; ammunition.

X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.

The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course

Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.

An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.

The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

The main role in a play or film; the lead role.

The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.

The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.

A channel of open water in an ice field.

A lode.

A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash

The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.

The course of a rope from end to end.

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.

The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

Hypothesis that has not been pursued

Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.

Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.

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An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast

The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.

Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.

The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.

The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.

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.)

The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.

The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.

In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.

A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.

A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.

The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.

To cover, fill, or affect with lead.

To place leads between the lines of.

To guide or conduct.

To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.

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To guide or conduct.

To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.

To guide or conduct.

To direct; to counsel; to instruct.

To guide or conduct.

To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.

To guide or conduct.

To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.

To guide or conduct.

To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.

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.

To begin, to be ahead.

To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.

To begin, to be ahead.

To proceed in front of others; to go first.

To begin, to be ahead.

To be more advanced in technology or business than others.

To begin, to be ahead.

To begin a game, round, or trick, with

To begin, to be ahead.

To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.

To begin, to be ahead.

To have the highest interim score in a game.

To begin, to be ahead.

To step off base and move towards the next base.

To begin, to be ahead.

To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.

To begin, to be ahead.

To lead climb.

To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.

To be a cause of.

To live or experience (a particular way of life).

Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.

Misspelling of led.

Misspelling of led.

Foremost.

Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.