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lead1 Pronunciation Key (ld)
v. led, (ld) lead·ing, leads
v. tr.
To show the way to by going in advance.
To guide or direct in a course: lead a horse by the halter. See Synonyms at guide.
To serve as a route for; take: The path led them to a cemetery.
To be a channel or conduit for (water or electricity, for example).
To guide the behavior or opinion of; induce: led us to believe otherwise.
To direct the performance or activities of: lead an orchestra.
To inspire the conduct of: led the nation in its crisis.
To play a principal or guiding role in: lead a discussion; led the antiwar movement.
To go or be at the head of: The queen led the procession. My name led the list.
To be ahead of: led the runner-up by three strides.
To be foremost in or among: led the field in nuclear research; led her teammates in free throws.
To pass or go through; live: lead an independent life.
To begin or open with, as in games: led an ace.
To guide (a partner) in dancing.
To aim in front of (a moving target).
Sports. To pass a ball or puck ahead of (a moving teammate) so that the player can receive the pass without changing direction or losing momentum.
v. intr.
To be first; be ahead.
To go first as a guide.
To act as commander, director, or guide.
To afford a passage, course, or route: a road that leads over the mountains; a door leading to the pantry.
To tend toward a certain goal or result: a remark that led to further discussion; policies that led to disaster.
To make the initial play, as in a game or contest.
To begin a presentation or an account in a given way: The announcer led with the day's top stories.
To guide a dance partner.
To start a dance step on a specified foot.
Baseball. To advance a few paces away from one's base toward the next while the pitcher is in the delivery. Used of a base runner.
Sports. To begin an attack in boxing with a specified hand or punch: led with a right to the body.
n.
The first or foremost position.
One occupying such a position; a leader.
The initiative: took the lead in setting the pace of the project.
The margin by which one holds a position of advantage or superiority: held a lead of nine points at the half.
Information pointing toward a possible solution; a clue: followed a promising lead in the murder case.
An indication of potential opportunity; a tip: a good lead for a job.
Command; leadership: took over the lead of the company.
An example; a precedent: followed his sister's lead in running for office.
The principal role in a dramatic production.
The person playing such a role.
The introductory portion of a news story.
An important, usually prominently displayed news story.
Games.
The first play.
The prerogative or turn to make the first play: The lead passes to the player on the left.
A card played first in a round.
Baseball. A position taken by a base runner away from one base in the direction of the next.
Sports. A blow in boxing that begins a series or exchange of punches.
A leash.
Geology.
A deposit of gold ore in an old riverbed.
See lode.
Electronics. A conductor by which one circuit element is electrically connected to another.
Nautical. The direction in which a line runs.
The distance aimed in front of a moving target.
A channel of open water created by a break in a mass of ice.
adj.
First or foremost: the lead leg on a surfboard.
Most important: the lead author of a research paper.
Phrasal Verbs:
lead off
To begin; start.
Baseball To be the first batter in an inning.
lead on
To keep in a state of expectation or hope; entice.
To mislead; deceive.
Idioms:
lead the way
To show a course or route by going in advance.
To be foremost in an endeavor or trend: The firm led the way in the application of new technology.
lead up to
To result in by a series of steps: events leading up to the coup.
To proceed toward (a main topic) with preliminary remarks.
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[Middle English leden, from Old English ldan. See leit- in Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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lead2 Pronunciation Key (ld)
n.
Symbol Pb A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, and antiknock compounds. Atomic number 82; atomic weight 207.2; melting point 327.5°C; boiling point 1,744°C; specific gravity 11.35; valence 2, 4. See table at element.
A lead weight suspended by a line, used to make soundings.
Bullets from or for firearms; shot: pumped the target full of lead.
leads Strips of lead used to hold the panes of a window.
Abbr. ld. Printing. A thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type.
leads Chiefly British. A flat roof covered with sheets of lead.
Any of various, often graphitic compositions used as the writing substance in pencils.
A thin stick of such material.
v. tr. lead·ed, lead·ing, leads
To cover, line, weight, or fill with lead.
Printing. To provide space between (lines of type) with leads.
To secure (window glass) with leads.
To treat with lead or a lead compound: leaded gasoline; leaded paint.
Idiom:
get the lead out Informal
To start moving or move more rapidly.
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[Middle English led, from Old English lad, probably of Celtic origin.]
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lead adj.
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\Lead\ (l[e^]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le['a]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[=o]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon
3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
Black lead, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]
Coasting lead, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.
Deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
Krems lead, Kremnitz lead [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also Krems, or Kremnitz, white, and Vienna white.
Lead arming, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See To arm the lead (below).
Lead colic. See under Colic.
Lead color, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.
Lead glance. (Min.) Same as Galena.
Lead line (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line.
Lead mill, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
Lead ocher (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as Massicot.
Lead pencil, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).
Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha (A. canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray.
Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leuc[ae]na glauca; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate.
Mock lead, a miner's term for blende.
Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.
Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite.
Sugar of lead, acetate of lead.
To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
To cast, or heave, the lead, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
White lead, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.] 1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\ (l[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Led (l[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.] [OE. leden, AS. l[=ae]dan (akin to OS. l[=e]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][eth]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[eth]an to go; akin to OHG. l[imac]dan, Icel. l[imac][eth]a, Goth. lei[thorn]an (in comp.). Cf. Lode, Loath.] 1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. --Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.)
They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. --Luke iv. 29.
In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. --Milton.
2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. --Ex. xiii. 21.
He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii. 2.
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. --Milton.
3. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. --South.
4. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax.
And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh Hunt.
5. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. --Eikon Basilike.
Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. --2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).
6. To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1 Tim. ii. 2.
Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson.
You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. --Dickens.
7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
To lead astray, to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude.
To lead captive, to carry or bring into captivity.
To lead the way, to show the way by going in front; to act as guide. --Goldsmith.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, n. 1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, . . . I am sure I did my country important service. --Burke.
2. precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
3. (Cards & Dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
4. An open way in an ice field. --Kane.
5. (Mining) A lode.
6. (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end.
7. (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.
Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
8. (Civil Engineering) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
9. (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. --Saunier.
Lead angle (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam.
Lead screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, v. i. 1. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or pre["e]minence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
2. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua. --Shak.
To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, n. 1. (Music.) (a) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. (b) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
2. In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full
lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called
negative lead.
3. (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
4. (Mach.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn.
5. (Elec.) (a) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. (b) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. (c) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
6. (Theat.) A r[^o]le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r[^o]le.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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n 1: an advantage held by a competitor in a race: "he took the lead at the last turn" 2: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray; "the children were playing with lead soldiers" [syn: Pb, atomic number 82] 3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: track, trail] 4: a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'
; "he takes the lead in any group"; "we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"; "they didn't follow our lead" 5: the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) 6: the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter" [syn: lead-in] 7: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal] 8: (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; "he took a long lead off first" 9: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, steer, confidential information, wind, hint] 10: a news story of major importance [syn: lead story] 11: the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine [syn: spark advance] 12: a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal [syn: leash, tether] 13: a thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing [syn: leading] 14: a mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil [syn: pencil lead] 15: a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads" [syn: jumper cable, jumper lead] 16: the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; "the lead was in the dummy" v 1: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: take, direct, conduct, guide] 2: result in; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin" [syn: leave, result] 3: tend to or result in; "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests" 4: travel in front of; go in advance of others: "The procession was headed by John" [syn: head] 5: cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks" 6: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, extend] 7: be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head] 8: be ahead of others; be at the top; be the first 9: be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" [syn: contribute, conduce] 10: lead; "conduct an orchestra" [syn: conduct, direct] 11: pass or spend; "lead a good life" 12: lead. extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go] 13: move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: precede] [ant: follow] 14: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run] 15: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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lead
Symbol: Pb
Atomic number: 82
Atomic weight: 207.19
Heavy dull grey ductile metallic element, belongs to group 14. Used in
building construction, lead-place accumulators, bullets and shot, and is
part of solder, pewter, bearing metals, type metals and fusible alloys.
Source: The Elements
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Location: 44.35213 N, 103.76693 W
Population (1990): 3632 (1654 housing units)
Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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lead1 Pronunciation Key (ld)
v. led, (ld) lead·ing, leads
v. tr.
To show the way to by going in advance.
To guide or direct in a course: lead a horse by the halter. See Synonyms at guide.
To serve as a route for; take: The path led them to a cemetery.
To be a channel or conduit for (water or electricity, for example).
To guide the behavior or opinion of; induce: led us to believe otherwise.
To direct the performance or activities of: lead an orchestra.
To inspire the conduct of: led the nation in its crisis.
To play a principal or guiding role in: lead a discussion; led the antiwar movement.
To go or be at the head of: The queen led the procession. My name led the list.
To be ahead of: led the runner-up by three strides.
To be foremost in or among: led the field in nuclear research; led her teammates in free throws.
To pass or go through; live: lead an independent life.
To begin or open with, as in games: led an ace.
To guide (a partner) in dancing.
To aim in front of (a moving target).
Sports. To pass a ball or puck ahead of (a moving teammate) so that the player can receive the pass without changing direction or losing momentum.
v. intr.
To be first; be ahead.
To go first as a guide.
To act as commander, director, or guide.
To afford a passage, course, or route: a road that leads over the mountains; a door leading to the pantry.
To tend toward a certain goal or result: a remark that led to further discussion; policies that led to disaster.
To make the initial play, as in a game or contest.
To begin a presentation or an account in a given way: The announcer led with the day's top stories.
To guide a dance partner.
To start a dance step on a specified foot.
Baseball. To advance a few paces away from one's base toward the next while the pitcher is in the delivery. Used of a base runner.
Sports. To begin an attack in boxing with a specified hand or punch: led with a right to the body.
n.
The first or foremost position.
One occupying such a position; a leader.
The initiative: took the lead in setting the pace of the project.
The margin by which one holds a position of advantage or superiority: held a lead of nine points at the half.
Information pointing toward a possible solution; a clue: followed a promising lead in the murder case.
An indication of potential opportunity; a tip: a good lead for a job.
Command; leadership: took over the lead of the company.
An example; a precedent: followed his sister's lead in running for office.
The principal role in a dramatic production.
The person playing such a role.
The introductory portion of a news story.
An important, usually prominently displayed news story.
Games.
The first play.
The prerogative or turn to make the first play: The lead passes to the player on the left.
A card played first in a round.
Baseball. A position taken by a base runner away from one base in the direction of the next.
Sports. A blow in boxing that begins a series or exchange of punches.
A leash.
Geology.
A deposit of gold ore in an old riverbed.
See lode.
Electronics. A conductor by which one circuit element is electrically connected to another.
Nautical. The direction in which a line runs.
The distance aimed in front of a moving target.
A channel of open water created by a break in a mass of ice.
adj.
First or foremost: the lead leg on a surfboard.
Most important: the lead author of a research paper.
Phrasal Verbs:
lead off
To begin; start.
Baseball To be the first batter in an inning.
lead on
To keep in a state of expectation or hope; entice.
To mislead; deceive.
Idioms:
lead the way
To show a course or route by going in advance.
To be foremost in an endeavor or trend: The firm led the way in the application of new technology.
lead up to
To result in by a series of steps: events leading up to the coup.
To proceed toward (a main topic) with preliminary remarks.
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[Middle English leden, from Old English ldan. See leit- in Indo-European Roots.]
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lead2 Pronunciation Key (ld)
n.
Symbol Pb A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, and antiknock compounds. Atomic number 82; atomic weight 207.2; melting point 327.5°C; boiling point 1,744°C; specific gravity 11.35; valence 2, 4. See table at element.
A lead weight suspended by a line, used to make soundings.
Bullets from or for firearms; shot: pumped the target full of lead.
leads Strips of lead used to hold the panes of a window.
Abbr. ld. Printing. A thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type.
leads Chiefly British. A flat roof covered with sheets of lead.
Any of various, often graphitic compositions used as the writing substance in pencils.
A thin stick of such material.
v. tr. lead·ed, lead·ing, leads
To cover, line, weight, or fill with lead.
Printing. To provide space between (lines of type) with leads.
To secure (window glass) with leads.
To treat with lead or a lead compound: leaded gasoline; leaded paint.
Idiom:
get the lead out Informal
To start moving or move more rapidly.
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[Middle English led, from Old English lad, probably of Celtic origin.]
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\Lead\ (l[e^]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le['a]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[=o]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon
3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
Black lead, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]
Coasting lead, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.
Deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
Krems lead, Kremnitz lead [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also Krems, or Kremnitz, white, and Vienna white.
Lead arming, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See To arm the lead (below).
Lead colic. See under Colic.
Lead color, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.
Lead glance. (Min.) Same as Galena.
Lead line (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line.
Lead mill, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
Lead ocher (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as Massicot.
Lead pencil, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).
Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha (A. canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray.
Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leuc[ae]na glauca; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate.
Mock lead, a miner's term for blende.
Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.
Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite.
Sugar of lead, acetate of lead.
To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
To cast, or heave, the lead, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
White lead, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.] 1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\ (l[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Led (l[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Leading.] [OE. leden, AS. l[=ae]dan (akin to OS. l[=e]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][eth]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[eth]an to go; akin to OHG. l[imac]dan, Icel. l[imac][eth]a, Goth. lei[thorn]an (in comp.). Cf. Lode, Loath.] 1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. --Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.)
They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. --Luke iv. 29.
In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. --Milton.
2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. --Ex. xiii. 21.
He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii. 2.
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. --Milton.
3. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. --South.
4. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax.
And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh Hunt.
5. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. --Eikon Basilike.
Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. --2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).
6. To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1 Tim. ii. 2.
Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson.
You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. --Dickens.
7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
To lead astray, to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude.
To lead captive, to carry or bring into captivity.
To lead the way, to show the way by going in front; to act as guide. --Goldsmith.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, n. 1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, . . . I am sure I did my country important service. --Burke.
2. precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
3. (Cards & Dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
4. An open way in an ice field. --Kane.
5. (Mining) A lode.
6. (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end.
7. (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.
Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
8. (Civil Engineering) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
9. (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. --Saunier.
Lead angle (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam.
Lead screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, v. i. 1. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or pre["e]minence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
2. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua. --Shak.
To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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\Lead\, n. 1. (Music.) (a) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. (b) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
2. In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full
lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called
negative lead.
3. (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
4. (Mach.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn.
5. (Elec.) (a) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. (b) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. (c) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
6. (Theat.) A r[^o]le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r[^o]le.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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n 1: an advantage held by a competitor in a race: "he took the lead at the last turn" 2: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray; "the children were playing with lead soldiers" [syn: Pb, atomic number 82] 3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: track, trail] 4: a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'
; "he takes the lead in any group"; "we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"; "they didn't follow our lead" 5: the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) 6: the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter" [syn: lead-in] 7: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal] 8: (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; "he took a long lead off first" 9: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, steer, confidential information, wind, hint] 10: a news story of major importance [syn: lead story] 11: the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine [syn: spark advance] 12: a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal [syn: leash, tether] 13: a thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing [syn: leading] 14: a mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil [syn: pencil lead] 15: a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads" [syn: jumper cable, jumper lead] 16: the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; "the lead was in the dummy" v 1: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: take, direct, conduct, guide] 2: result in; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin" [syn: leave, result] 3: tend to or result in; "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests" 4: travel in front of; go in advance of others: "The procession was headed by John" [syn: head] 5: cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks" 6: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, extend] 7: be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head] 8: be ahead of others; be at the top; be the first 9: be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" [syn: contribute, conduce] 10: lead; "conduct an orchestra" [syn: conduct, direct] 11: pass or spend; "lead a good life" 12: lead. extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go] 13: move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: precede] [ant: follow] 14: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run] 15: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair]Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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lead
Symbol: Pb
Atomic number: 82
Atomic weight: 207.19
Heavy dull grey ductile metallic element, belongs to group 14. Used in
building construction, lead-place accumulators, bullets and shot, and is
part of solder, pewter, bearing metals, type metals and fusible alloys.
Source: The Elements
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lead, SD (city, FIPS 36220)
Location: 44.35213 N, 103.76693 W
Population (1990): 3632 (1654 housing units)
Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Source: U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Amazing!!
umm errr. wow at the flying...
and wtf? at the dictionary stuf :p
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and wtf? at the dictionary stuf :p
Chris C
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Hehehe, :D
Looks fun
Looks fun
IMFG,
i feel sorry for DC :P
er, WTF at the dictionarry stuff
i feel sorry for DC :P
er, WTF at the dictionarry stuff
"You waste far too much time trying to create crashes. Why don't you play it properly and post a good race result instead of your boring tw*ting about shinanigans."
Heres a clue, when u see a post named like this......DONT READ IT.
thats the reaosn for post names - so you know whats in it, if u find it boring, DONT READ IT!
Jeeze, how stupid are people!!
Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps
Heres a clue, when u see a post named like this......DONT READ IT.
thats the reaosn for post names - so you know whats in it, if u find it boring, DONT READ IT!
Jeeze, how stupid are people!!
Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps
WTf, who said that? (what ideot siad that?)
thanks ellis :O)) & Dumbass
ok ok like ellis said, most ppl will now be getting to know me and know that at the moment anyway all i post here is crashes.
ok so there is more to life in GP4 than crashing but hey its only to bring a little fun to the game.
so black celica next time you see my nick on the forums dont FU**ing read the thread....if you cant see the humour side then forget it
BTW Dave whats with the bloody Dictionary @!#$ m8
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
ok ok like ellis said, most ppl will now be getting to know me and know that at the moment anyway all i post here is crashes.
ok so there is more to life in GP4 than crashing but hey its only to bring a little fun to the game.
so black celica next time you see my nick on the forums dont FU**ing read the thread....if you cant see the humour side then forget it
BTW Dave whats with the bloody Dictionary @!#$ m8
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
Well I was noting that I wrote let instead of lead and so I posted the dictionary meanings for lead to remind me. It didnt look like so much at the time!
i think ppl should just shut the f*** up
stop moaning about what other ppl are doing and get ure arses out the dictoinary, so what if he likes crashing, i think it adds to the game.
ok, so i try this in reall life, die
i try in gp4, im alive (instently better)
stop moaning about what other ppl are doing and get ure arses out the dictoinary, so what if he likes crashing, i think it adds to the game.
ok, so i try this in reall life, die
i try in gp4, im alive (instently better)
Hi!
LOOOOOL hi fly cooool :D:D
Move Ferarri Here Toyota is coming!
LOOOOOL hi fly cooool :D:D
Move Ferarri Here Toyota is coming!
We should find a way to measure those jumps and start keeping records
Crashing in NASCAR 2002 is more fun than playing the game
The physics model is soooo damn good!
The physics model is soooo damn good!
everyoen can do what they want.. if it annoys u someone crashing, then so be it.. u weird then :p
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