WordDictionary

Adjective:

• not comparable Foremost.

Noun:

• charging lead
• A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
• A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• baseball When a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown
• civil engineering The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• countable|mining A lode.
• horology The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. ? Claudias Saunier
• marketing Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• plural '''leads''' A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• uncountable|typography Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as ''leading''.
• countable A channel of open water in an ice field.
• countable a metallic wire for electrical devices and equipments
• countable A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or dated to estimate velocity in knots.
• countable A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• curling The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• engineering The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
• Hypothesis that has not been pursued
• idiom bullets
• 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.
• Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
• Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
• nautical The course of a rope from end to end.
• 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.)
• Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• uncountable (''cards and 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.
• element 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, Atomic weight 206.4, Specific Gravity 11.37, Symbol Pb (from Latin ''plumbum'').
• uncountable 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; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
• uncountable The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.

Verb:

• To produce.
• baseball To step off base and move towards the next base.
• shooting To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
• transitive|cards|dominoes To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps
• intransitive To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race
• intransitive To be more advanced in technology or business than others
• 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.
• intransitive To have the highest interim score in a game
• intransitive To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
• intransitive 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.
• printing To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
• transitive 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; to command, especially a military or business unit
• transitive To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
• transitive 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.
• transitive 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.
• transitive 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 lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler.
• transitive To guide or conduct oneself 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).
• transitive 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.