ALL meanings of lead
lead
L l - noun lead (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts. 0
- noun lead (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor. 0
- noun lead (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. 0
- noun lead (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. 0
- noun lead (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. 0
- noun lead (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. 0
- noun lead (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. 0
- verb lead (Transitive Verb) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. 0
- verb lead (Transitive Verb) (heading) To guide or conduct. 0
- verb lead (Transitive Verb) (printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of. 0
- verb lead (heading) To begin, to be ahead. 0
- verb lead (Intransitive Verb) 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. 0
- verb lead (Transitive Verb) 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. 0
- verb lead (Intransitive Verb) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place. 0
- verb lead To produce (with to). 0
- verb lead Misspelling of led. 0
- adjective lead (not comparable) Foremost. 0
- verb lead If you lead a group of people, you walk or ride in front of them. 0
- verb lead If you lead someone to a particular place or thing, you take them there. 0
- verb lead If a road, gate, or door leads somewhere, you can get there by following the road or going through the gate or door. 0
- verb lead If you are leading at a particular point in a race or competition, you are winning at that point. 0
- singular noun lead If you have the lead or are in the lead in a race or competition, you are winning. 0
- singular noun lead Someone's lead over a competitor at a particular point in a race or competition is the distance, amount of time, or number of points by which they are ahead of them. 0
- verb lead If one company or country leads others in a particular activity such as scientific research or business, it is more successful or advanced than they are in that activity. 0
- verb lead If you lead a group of people, an organization, or an activity, you are in control or in charge of the people or the activity. 0
- countable noun lead If you give a lead, you do something new or develop new ideas or methods that other people consider to be a good example or model to follow. 0
- verb lead You can use lead when you are saying what kind of life someone has. For example, if you lead a busy life, your life is busy. 0
- verb lead If something leads to a situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen. 0
- verb lead If something leads you to do something, it influences or affects you in such a way that you do it. 0
- verb lead If you say that someone or something led you to think something, you mean that they caused you to think it, although it was not true or did not happen. 0
- verb lead If you lead a conversation or discussion, you control the way that it develops so that you can introduce a particular subject. 0
- verb lead You can say that one point or topic in a discussion or piece of writing leads you to another in order to introduce a new point or topic that is linked with the previous one. 0
- countable noun lead A lead is a piece of information or an idea which may help people to discover the facts in a situation where many facts are not known, for example in the investigation of a crime or in a scientific experiment. 0
- countable noun lead The lead in a play, film, or show is the most important part in it. The person who plays this part can also be called the lead. 0
- countable noun lead A dog's lead is a long, thin chain or piece of leather which you attach to the dog's collar so that you can control the dog. 0
- countable noun lead A lead in a piece of equipment is a piece of wire covered in plastic which supplies electricity to the equipment or carries it from one part of the equipment to another. 0
- singular noun lead The lead story or lead in a newspaper or on the television or radio news is the most important story. 0
- uncountable noun lead Lead is a soft, grey, heavy metal. 0
- uncountable noun lead Lead is sometimes used to refer to bullets. 0
- countable noun lead The lead in a pencil is the centre part of it which makes a mark on paper. 0
- verb lead to show the way to (an individual or a group) by going with or ahead 0
- verb lead to guide or be guided by holding, pulling, etc 0
- verb lead to cause to act, feel, think, or behave in a certain way; induce; influence 0
- verb lead to phrase a question to (a witness) that tends to suggest the desired answer 0
- verb lead (of a road, route, etc) to serve as the means of reaching a place 0
- verb lead to go ahead so as to indicate (esp in the phrase lead the way) 0
- verb lead to guide, control, or direct 0
- verb lead to direct the course of or conduct (water, a rope or wire, etc) along or as if along a channel 0
- verb lead to initiate the action of (something); have the principal part in (something) 0
- verb lead to go at the head of or have the top position in (something) 0