NOUN
  • Definition - 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).
  • Definition - A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
  • Definition - A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  • Definition - Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  • Example - This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
  • Definition - Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  • Example - This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
  • Definition - (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  • Example - This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
  • Definition - A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  • Example - This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
  • Definition - Bullets; ammunition.
  • Example - They pumped him full of lead.
VERB
  • Definition - To cover, fill, or affect with lead
  • Example - continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
  • Definition - To place leads between the lines of.
  • Example - leaded matter
NOUN
  • Definition - The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
  • Example - to be under the lead of another
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - She lost the lead.
  • Definition - An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  • Example - She lost the lead.
  • Definition - The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  • Example - The runner took his lead from first.
  • Definition - The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - A channel of open water in an ice field.
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - A lode.
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - The course of a rope from end to end.
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
  • Example - your partner has the lead
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
  • Definition - Charging lead.
  • Example - Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
  • Definition - The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  • Example - Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
  • Definition - The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  • Example - Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
  • Definition - Hypothesis that has not been pursued
  • Example - The investigation stalled when all leads turned out to be dead ends.
  • Definition - Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
  • Example - The police have a couple of leads they will follow to solve the case.
  • Definition - Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - (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.)
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
VERB
  • Definition - (heading) To guide or conduct.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  • Example - Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
  • Definition - To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
  • Example - to lead someone to a righteous cause
  • Definition - To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  • Example - the path leads to the mill;  gambling leads to other vices
  • Definition - To produce (with to).
  • Example - The shock led to a change in his behaviour.
  • Definition - (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
  • Example - The shock led to a change in his behaviour.
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
dales 6 deals 6 lades 6 lased 6 leads 6
4 Letter Words
dale 5 dals 5 deal 5 dels 5 elds 5 lade 5 lads 5 lead 5 sade 5 sled 5 ales 4 lase 4 leas 4 sale 4 seal 4
3 Letter Words
ads 4 dal 4 das 4 del 4 eds 4 eld 4 lad 4 led 4 sad 4 ale 3 als 3 els 3 las 3 lea 3 les 3 sae 3 sal 3 sea 3 sel 3
2 Letter Words
ad 3 da 3 de 3 ed 3 ae 2 al 2 as 2 el 2 es 2 la 2
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