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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) :   [ devils ]

  LEAD, n.  A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to
  light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other
  men's wives.  Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an
  argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong
  way.  An interesting fact in the chemistry of international
  controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is
  precipitated in great quantities.
  
      Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great
          And universal arbiter; endowed
          With penetration to pierce any cloud
      Fogging the field of controversial hate,
      And with a sift, inevitable, straight,
          Searching precision find the unavowed
          But vital point.  Thy judgment, when allowed
      By the chirurgeon, settles the debate.
      O useful metal! -- were it not for thee
          We'd grapple one another's ears alway:
      But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee
          We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay."
      And when the quick have run away like pellets
      Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets.
  
  

From Elements database 20001107 :   [ elements ]

  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.
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :   [ gazetteer ]

  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)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lead \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
        (melting point 327.5[deg] C), forms alloys with other
        metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal.
        Atomic number 82. Atomic weight, 207.2. Symbol Pb (L.
        Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena,
        lead sulphide.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  I would have the tower two stories, and goodly
                  leads upon the top.               --Bacon
            [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A small cylinder of black lead or graphite, used in
        pencils.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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 white, 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
        ({Amorpha 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 the lead, or To 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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lead \Lead\ (l[e^]d), 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead
        a page; leaded matter.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lead \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 or connection; as, a father leads a
        child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a
        blind man.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in
              the ditch.                            --Wyclif
                                                    (Matt. xv.
                                                    14.)
        [1913 Webster]
  
              They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto
              the brow of the hill.                 --Luke iv. 29.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              In thy right hand lead with thee
              The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.    --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a
              cloud, to lead them the way.          --Ex. xiii.
                                                    21.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii.
                                                    2.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              This thought might lead me through the world's vain
              mask.
              Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
                                                    --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he
              might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or
              possess places.                       --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh
                                                    Hunt.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He was driven by the necessities of the times, more
              than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of
              actions.                              --Eikon
                                                    Basilike.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Silly women, laden with sins, led away by divers
              lusts.                                --2 Tim. iii.
                                                    6 (Rev. Ver.).
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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).
        [1913 Webster]
  
              That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1
                                                    Tim. ii. 2.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
              A life that leads melodious days.     --Tennyson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife
              and daughter.                         --Dickens.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with;
        as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lead \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     To lead off or To lead out, to go first; to begin; as,
        Mickey Mantle led off in the fifth inning of the game.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lead \Lead\, n.
     1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as,
        to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead,
              . . . I am sure I did my country important service.
                                                    --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. An open way in an ice field. --Kane.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. (Mining) A lode.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the
           admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release
           or exhaust.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     8. (Civil Engineering) the distance of haul, as from a
        cutting to an embankment.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     9. (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel,
        in impelling another tooth or a pallet. --Saunier.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     10. (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.
             [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     11. 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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     12. (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle
         between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine,
         on the same shaft.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     13. (Mach.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the
         like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral
         for a complete turn.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     14. (Elec.)
         (a) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a
             continuous-current dynamo and the diameter
             symmetrical between the poles.
         (b) The advance of the current phase in an alternating
             circuit beyond that of the electromotive force
             producing it.
             [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     15. (Theat.) A role for a leading man or leading woman; also,
         one who plays such a role.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     16. The first story in a newspaper or broadcast news program.
         [PJC]
  
     17. an electrical conductor, typically as an insulated wire
         or cable, connecting an electrical device to another
         device or to a power source, such as a conductor
         conveying electricity from a dynamo.
         [PJC]
  
     18. (Baseball) the distance a runner on base advances from
         one base toward the next before the pitch; as, the long
         lead he usually takes tends to distract the pitchers.
         [PJC]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Lead \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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  lead
       n 1: 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]
       2: an advantage held by a competitor in a race; "he took the
          lead at the last turn"
       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: restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to
           restrain an animal [syn: leash, tether]
       13: thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in
           printing [syn: leading]
       14: 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 the first; "she topped her class
          every year" [syn: top]
       9: be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead
          to better writing" [syn: contribute, conduce]
       10: lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an
           orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for
           years" [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]
       [also: led]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 (''χωρίς πληθυντικό'') ο μόλυβδος
     2 (ετ τυπογραφία en) λεπτή μεταλλική λωρίδα που χρησιμοποιείται στη
  στοιχειοθεσία της παραδοσιακής τυπογραφίας για το διαχωρισμό των γραμμών
  κατά το τύπωμα
     3 φύλλα ή πλάκες μολύβδου που χρησιμοποιούνται στις στέγες
     4 στέγη καλυμμένη με φύλλα μολύβδου ή πλάκες μολυβδοκασσίτερος
     5 (ετ: αργκό) σφαίρες, πυρομαχικά
     Αγγλικά vb.
     1 καλύπτω, γεμίζω με μόλυβδο
     2 (ετ τυπογραφία en) τοποθετώ (κατά τη στοιχειοθεσία) τα μεταλλικά
  στοιχεία διαχωρισμού των γραμμών

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Middle English n.
     (alt form enm led t=lead id=lead)
     n.
     1 (senseid en metal) (lb en uncountable) 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'').
     2 (lb en countable nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a
  line, used in sounding depth at sea or (lb en dated) to estimate
  velocity in knots.
     3 A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in
  printing.
     4 (lb en uncountable typography) Vertical space in advance of a row
  or between rows of text. Also known as ''leading''.
     5 sheetss or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
     6 (lb en plural '''leads''') A roof covered with lead sheets or terne
  plates.
     7 (lb en countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
  Category:en:Carbon
     8 (lb en slang) bullets; ammunition.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en to cover in lead)(lb en transitive) To cover, fill, or
  affect with lead.
     2 (lb en transitive printing historical) To place leads between the
  lines of.
     a.
     1 (lb en not comparable) foremost.
     2 main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
     alt.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance;
  direction, course
     2 (lb en countable) 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.
     3 (lb en UK countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical
  devices and equipment.
     4 (lb en baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a
  base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
     5 (lb en uncountable card games dominoes) The act or right of playing
  first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
     6 (lb en acting theatre) The main role in a play or film; the lead
  role.
     7 (lb en acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
     8 (lb en business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift
  etc.
     9 (lb en countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
     10 (lb en countable mining) A lode.
     11 (lb en nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
     12 A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an
  animal; a leash
     13 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.
     14 (lb en civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting
  to an embankment.
     15 (lb en horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a
  wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
     16 Hypothesis that has not been pursued
     17 Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows
  him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
     18 (lb en marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction,
  a potential customer.
     19 Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject
  that allows him or her to discover more details.
     20 (lb en curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a
  team.
     21 (lb en 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.)
     22 An important news story that appears on the front page of a
  newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
     23 (lb en engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in
  one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
     24 (lb en music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the
  melody, usually the second tenor
     25 (lb en music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be
  repeated by the other parts.
     26 (lb en music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a
  canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
     27 (lb en engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle
  between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same
  shaft.
     28 (lb en electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes
  of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the
  poles.
     29 (lb en electrical) The advance of the current phase in an
  alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     vb.
     (misspelling of en led)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl newspapers journalism) (l en lead) paragraph, teaser, lead-in
  (gl: start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why
  and how)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     n.
     1 (senseid en metal) (lb en uncountable) 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'').
     2 (lb en countable nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a
  line, used in sounding depth at sea or (lb en dated) to estimate
  velocity in knots.
     3 A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in
  printing.
     4 (lb en uncountable typography) Vertical space in advance of a row
  or between rows of text. Also known as ''leading''.
     5 sheetss or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
     6 (lb en plural '''leads''') A roof covered with lead sheets or terne
  plates.
     7 (lb en countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
  Category:en:Carbon
     8 (lb en slang) bullets; ammunition.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en to cover in lead)(lb en transitive) To cover, fill, or
  affect with lead.
     2 (lb en transitive printing historical) To place leads between the
  lines of.
     a.
     1 (lb en not comparable) foremost.
     2 main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
     alt.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance;
  direction, course
     2 (lb en countable) 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.
     3 (lb en UK countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical
  devices and equipment.
     4 (lb en baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a
  base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
     5 (lb en uncountable card games dominoes) The act or right of playing
  first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
     6 (lb en acting theatre) The main role in a play or film; the lead
  role.
     7 (lb en acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
     8 (lb en business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift
  etc.
     9 (lb en countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
     10 (lb en countable mining) A lode.
     11 (lb en nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
     12 A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an
  animal; a leash
     13 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.
     14 (lb en civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting
  to an embankment.
     15 (lb en horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a
  wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
     16 Hypothesis that has not been pursued
     17 Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows
  him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
     18 (lb en marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction,
  a potential customer.
     19 Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject
  that allows him or her to discover more details.
     20 (lb en curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a
  team.
     21 (lb en 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.)
     22 An important news story that appears on the front page of a
  newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
     23 (lb en engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in
  one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
     24 (lb en music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the
  melody, usually the second tenor
     25 (lb en music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be
  repeated by the other parts.
     26 (lb en music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a
  canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
     27 (lb en engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle
  between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same
  shaft.
     28 (lb en electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes
  of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the
  poles.
     29 (lb en electrical) The advance of the current phase in an
  alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     vb.
     (misspelling of en led)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Middle English n.
     (alt form enm led t=lead id=lead)
     n.
     1 (senseid en metal) (lb en uncountable) 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'').
     2 (lb en countable nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a
  line, used in sounding depth at sea or (lb en dated) to estimate
  velocity in knots.
     3 A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in
  printing.
     4 (lb en uncountable typography) Vertical space in advance of a row
  or between rows of text. Also known as ''leading''.
     5 sheetss or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
     6 (lb en plural '''leads''') A roof covered with lead sheets or terne
  plates.
     7 (lb en countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
  Category:en:Carbon
     8 (lb en slang) bullets; ammunition.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en to cover in lead)(lb en transitive) To cover, fill, or
  affect with lead.
     2 (lb en transitive printing historical) To place leads between the
  lines of.
     a.
     1 (lb en not comparable) foremost.
     2 main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
     alt.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance;
  direction, course
     2 (lb en countable) 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.
     3 (lb en UK countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical
  devices and equipment.
     4 (lb en baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a
  base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
     5 (lb en uncountable card games dominoes) The act or right of playing
  first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
     6 (lb en acting theatre) The main role in a play or film; the lead
  role.
     7 (lb en acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
     8 (lb en business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift
  etc.
     9 (lb en countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
     10 (lb en countable mining) A lode.
     11 (lb en nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
     12 A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an
  animal; a leash
     13 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.
     14 (lb en civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting
  to an embankment.
     15 (lb en horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a
  wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
     16 Hypothesis that has not been pursued
     17 Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows
  him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
     18 (lb en marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction,
  a potential customer.
     19 Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject
  that allows him or her to discover more details.
     20 (lb en curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a
  team.
     21 (lb en 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.)
     22 An important news story that appears on the front page of a
  newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
     23 (lb en engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in
  one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
     24 (lb en music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the
  melody, usually the second tenor
     25 (lb en music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be
  repeated by the other parts.
     26 (lb en music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a
  canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
     27 (lb en engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle
  between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same
  shaft.
     28 (lb en electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes
  of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the
  poles.
     29 (lb en electrical) The advance of the current phase in an
  alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     vb.
     (misspelling of en led)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl newspapers journalism) (l en lead) paragraph, teaser, lead-in
  (gl: start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why
  and how)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Middle English n.
     (alt form enm led t=lead id=lead)
     n.
     1 (senseid en metal) (lb en uncountable) 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'').
     2 (lb en countable nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a
  line, used in sounding depth at sea or (lb en dated) to estimate
  velocity in knots.
     3 A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in
  printing.
     4 (lb en uncountable typography) Vertical space in advance of a row
  or between rows of text. Also known as ''leading''.
     5 sheetss or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
     6 (lb en plural '''leads''') A roof covered with lead sheets or terne
  plates.
     7 (lb en countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
  Category:en:Carbon
     8 (lb en slang) bullets; ammunition.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en to cover in lead)(lb en transitive) To cover, fill, or
  affect with lead.
     2 (lb en transitive printing historical) To place leads between the
  lines of.
     a.
     1 (lb en not comparable) foremost.
     2 main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
     alt.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance;
  direction, course
     2 (lb en countable) 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.
     3 (lb en UK countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical
  devices and equipment.
     4 (lb en baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a
  base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
     5 (lb en uncountable card games dominoes) The act or right of playing
  first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
     6 (lb en acting theatre) The main role in a play or film; the lead
  role.
     7 (lb en acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
     8 (lb en business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift
  etc.
     9 (lb en countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
     10 (lb en countable mining) A lode.
     11 (lb en nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
     12 A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an
  animal; a leash
     13 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.
     14 (lb en civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting
  to an embankment.
     15 (lb en horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a
  wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
     16 Hypothesis that has not been pursued
     17 Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows
  him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
     18 (lb en marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction,
  a potential customer.
     19 Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject
  that allows him or her to discover more details.
     20 (lb en curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a
  team.
     21 (lb en 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.)
     22 An important news story that appears on the front page of a
  newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
     23 (lb en engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in
  one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
     24 (lb en music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the
  melody, usually the second tenor
     25 (lb en music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be
  repeated by the other parts.
     26 (lb en music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a
  canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
     27 (lb en engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle
  between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same
  shaft.
     28 (lb en electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes
  of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the
  poles.
     29 (lb en electrical) The advance of the current phase in an
  alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en guide) (lb en heading transitive) ''To guide#Verb or
  conduct#Verb.''
     2 # To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical
  contact connection.
     3 # 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.
     4 # (lb en figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
     5 # To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge
  of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
     vb.
     (misspelling of en led)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl newspapers journalism) (l en lead) paragraph, teaser, lead-in
  (gl: start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why
  and how)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Englanti n.
     1 lyijy
     2 lyijykynän lyijy
     3 (''merenkulussa'') luoti
     4 (yhteys slangia kuva k=en) "lyijy", luodit
     Englanti vb.
     täyttää tai peittää lyijyllä, lisätä lyijy(ä) jhk

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lead
     Frisiska n.
     (tagg kat=grundämnen språk=fy) bly

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. lei
  2. bestuur

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Lead /lˈiːd/
  التقدّم

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  1. водачество 2.
  act of leading or conducting
   3.
  precedence; advance position
  2. атакувам
  begin a game of cards or dominoes
  3. ръководя
  conduct or direct with authority
  4. водя 2.
  go or be in advance of; precede
   3.
  guide or conduct in a certain course
   4.
  intransitive: be ahead of others
   5.
  intransitive: have the highest interim score in a game
   6.
  intransitive: tend or reach in a certain direction
   7.
  intransitive: to guide or conduct
  5. водя се
  guide or conduct oneself
  6. во́дя
  guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection
  7. атака
  in cards and dominoes
  8. следа
  information obtained by a detective or police officer
  9. проводник
  insulated wire

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  1. олово
  bullets
  2. оло́во, олово
  chemical element
  3. лот
  plummet to measure depth of water
  4. графит
  refill for writing tool

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  vodit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  vést

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  olovo

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  zavést

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  směřovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  dovést

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  vést - vodit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  dirigovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  vodič

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  náskok

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  olovnice

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  vedení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  plomba

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  zaplombovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  olověný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  olovnatý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  být vůdcem

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  být v čele

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  hlavní role

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  iniciativa

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  olůvko

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  vedoucí

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  přívod

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  čelní

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  vodítko

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  řídit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  řízení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  ústit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  přivést

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  přimět

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  arwain 

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  ledio 

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  tywysio 

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  tywysu 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Ableitung  [electr.]  [phys.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Anschlussdraht , Zuleitungsdraht  [electr.]
           Note: zu einem Bauteil
     Synonym: lead wire
  
   see: lead wires, leads
  
           Note: of a component

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Bleistiftmine 
     Synonym: pencil lead
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Eisblänke , offenes Wasser im Treibeis
     Synonym: channel between ice floes
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Führung , Führungsrolle , führende Rolle , Vorangehen  [pol.]  [soc.]
           Note: bei etw.
        "take your own lead on engaging internationally"  - beim internationalen Engagement eigenständig vorangehen
        "follow the lead of the other countries and recognise the government"  - dem Beispiel der vorangegangenen Länder folgen und die Regierung anerkennen
        "Parents should be taking the lead on healthy diet."  - Eltern sollte bei gesunder Ernährung mit gutem Beispiel vorangehen.
        "The business group has taken the lead in developing this new technology."  - Der Konzern hat bei der Entwicklung dieser neuen Technik eine Führungsrolle übernommen.
        "The EU Commission has taken the lead in climate policy."  - Die EU-Kommission hat eine führende Rolle in der Klimapolitik eingenommen.
        "The Commission is now taking the lead in the inquiry."  - Die Kommission übernimmt jetzt die Federführung bei der Untersuchung.
        "Thank you for taking the lead."  - Danke, dass Sie die Initiative ergriffen haben und (mit gutem Beispiel) vorangegangen sind.
     Synonym: leading role
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Führung 
           Note: Spitzenposition bei einem Wettbewerb
        "be in the lead in a race"  - bei einem Rennen in Führung liegen / führen
        "lead in a race"  - bei einem Rennen in Führung liegen / führen
        "have the lead"  - die Führung innenhaben
        "hold the lead"  - die Führung innenhaben
        "take the lead"  - die Führung übernehmen, in Führung gehen
        "gain the lead"  - die Führung übernehmen, in Führung gehen
        "regain the lead"  - wieder die Führung übernehmen, wieder in Führung gehen
        "He has gone into the lead."  - Er ist in Führung gegangen.
        "Yedlin's own goal puts Chelsea back into the lead."  - Durch das Eigentor von Yedlin ist Chelsea wieder in Führung.
        "We were struggling to stay in the lead."  - Wir hatten Mühe, die Führung zu behalten / in Führung zu bleiben.
           Note: in a competition

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Ganghöhe , Steigungshöhe , Steigung 
           Note: eines Gewindes
           Note: of a thread

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Gewindesteigung 
     Synonyms: thread pitch, screw pitch
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Hauptrolle  [art]
        "the juvenile lead"  - die jugendliche Hauptrolle
        "play the leading role"  - die Hauptrolle spielen
        "play the lead"  - die Hauptrolle spielen
     Synonyms: leading role, main role
  
   see: leading roles, main roles, leads, play the main part, star
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Hinweis 
           Note: auf jdn./etw., Ansatzpunkt , Spur 
           Note: zu jdm./etw.
        "chase up a lead"  - eine Spur verfolgen
        "chase down a lead"  - eine Spur verfolgen
        "There are still no leads on the whereabouts of the kidnapped reporter."  - Es gibt immer noch keine Hinweise auf den Verbleib des entführten Reporters.
        "Investigators are working on several leads in the murder case."  - Die Ermittler verfolgen in dem Mordfall mehrere Spuren.
        "The few leads pursued by police have evaporated."  - Die wenigen Spuren, die die Polizei verfolgte, sind im Sand verlaufen.
   see: investigative leads
  
           Note: on sb./sth.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
   [Br.] Leine 
           Note: zum Führen eines Tieres
     Synonym: leash
  
   see: leads, leashes
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Lot 
     Synonym: plumb
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Voreilen  [zeitliches] , Voreilung  [electr.]  [techn.]
        "lead of the field"  - Voreilen des Feldes
        "lead of the slide valve (steam engine)"  - Voreilung des Schiebers (Dampfmaschine)
     Synonyms: advance, leading
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Vorhalt  [mil.]
     Synonym: guidance
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  führen  [geogr.]
           Note: von/nach einem Ort
        "Where does this road lead to?"  - Wohin führt diese Straße?, Wo führt diese Straße hin?
     Synonym: pass
  
   see: leading, passing, led, passed
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  hereingeführt
     Synonym: brought
  
   see: lead/bring sb., leading, bringing
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  voreilen  [electr.]
        "lead in phase"  - in Phase voreilen

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  vorsteigen  [sport]  [eine Route]
   see: leading, led
  
           Note: a climb

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Blei  [chem.] Pb,  /pˌiːbˈiː/
   see: scrap lead, electrolytic lead, native lead, liquation lead, boss lead
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
   [dog] Hundeleine , Laufleine 
        "Dogs must be kept on a lead/leash!"  - Hunde sind an der Leine zu führen!
     Synonym: leash
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Ausläufer  [geol.]
     Synonyms: offset, off shoot, spur
  
           Note: of a load

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  Leithorizont , Leitschicht  [geol.]
     Synonyms: key marker, key datum, key horizon, standard stratum
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  
  μόλυβδος, λουρί, ηγούμαι

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  1. johto, johtaminen
  act of leading or conducting
  2. aloittaa
  begin a game of cards or dominoes
  3. väylä
  channel of open water in an ice field
  4. latausjohto, varausjohto
  charging lead
  5. johtaa, vetää
  conduct or direct with authority
  6. ajaa, johdattaa
  draw or direct by influence
  7. opastaa, johdattaa, johtaa
  guide or conduct in a certain course
  8. johtaa, viedä 2.
  guide or conduct oneself
   3.
  intransitive: tend or reach in a certain direction
  9. opastaa, johdattaa, ohjata
  guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection
  10. ajo, lähtö
  in cards and dominoes
  11. johtolanka
  information obtained by a detective or police officer
  12. vihje
  information obtained by a news reporter
  13. eristetty johto
  insulated wire
  14. johtaa 2.
  intransitive: be ahead of others
   3.
  go or be in advance of; precede
   4.
  intransitive: have the highest interim score in a game
   5.
  intransitive: to guide or conduct
  15. johtaa, olla edellä
  intransitive: be more advanced
  16. mennä edeltä
  intransitive: to go first
  17. suoni
  mining: lode
  18. pituus
  nautical: course of a rope from end to end
  19. liidi, mahdollinen asiakas, potentiaalinen asiakas
  potential customer
  20. johto, johtoasema, kärki, kärkipaikka
  precedence; advance position
  21. kärkkyä
  transitive: to step off base

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  1. lyijy 2.
  chemical element
   3.
  bullets
   4.
  refill for writing tool
  2. luoti
  plummet to measure depth of water
  3. lisätä rivivälit, välistää rivit
  printing: place leads between the lines of
  4. lyijykatto
  roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates
  5. riviväli 2.
  separator line in print
   3.
  typography: vertical space
  6. lyijylevy
  sheets or plates covering a roof
  7. peittyä lyijyyn, peittää lyijyllä, täyttyä lyijyyn, täyttää lyijyllä
  to cover, fill, or affect with lead

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  lead /led/
  1. guider, régler
  2. aboutir, conduire, diriger, mener
  3. plomb

From English-Irish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.2 :   [ freedict:eng-gle ]

  lead /led/
  luaidhe

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  1. मार्ग दिखाना
        "He led me to his room. "
  2. मार्ग मिलना
        "The trail of blood on the road led the police to the criminal. "
  3. प्रभावित करना[होना]
        "He is easily led away by other's opinions. "
  4. व्यतीत करना
        "Many people lead a miserable life due to poverty. "
  5. आगे होना
        "This candidate is leading by 10,000 votes. "
  6. ताश का पहला पत्ता चलना
        "He led a heart. "
  7. नेतृत्व करना
        "The captain led his soldiers from the front."

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  lead /lˈiːd/ 
  1. नेतृत्व
        "He has given the lead and others may follow it. "
  2. अन्तर
        "His lead is now more than 10,000. "
  3. मुख्य भूमिका{नाटक इत्यादि में
        "He has played the lead in a film on Sardar Patel. "
  4. सुराग
        "The lead led to the arrest of the criminal. "
  5. लीड{तार
        "There is nothing wrong with the VCR. Something has gone wrong with the lead causing disturbance in the monitor."
  6. सीसा
        "Pencil has lead in it."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  dovesti, dovesti do, dovodi, izazvati, izvod, olovo, prednjačiti, predvođenje, priključak, vode, vodeće, voditi, vodstvo

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. vezér
  2. plomba
  3. emelkedés
  4. kábelvezeték
  5. hívás joga (kártyában)
  6. ólomzár
  7. fôbb hír
  8. vezetô szerep
  9. vízlevezetô csatorna
  10. menetmagasság
  11. elôretartás
  12. tömés
  13. mesterséges folyómeder
  14. mélységmérô ón
  15. játékkezdés joga
  16. sorköz
  17. ólomplomba
  18. elsôként kijátszott kártya
  19. elôgyújtás
  20. fogplomba
  21. sortágító
  22. póráz
  23. vezetô
  24. hasadék
  25. irányítás
  26. elsôség
  27. fôszerep
  28. tehermentesítô csatorna
  29. szíj
  30. telér
  31. hasadás
  32. vezeték
  33. vezetés
  34. sortérzô
  35. grafit
  36. nyom
  37. elsô kiadás joga
  38. fô hír
  39. ceruzabél
  40. tápcsatorna
  41. ólom
  42. elônyitás
  43. élenjárás
  44. fogtömés
  45. elágazó vezeték
  46. ólomcsík
  47. mérôón
  48. vezetôgörgô
  49. kötél

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  bimbing, pimpin, tffuntun

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  1. timbal
  bullets
  2. timbel, timbal
  chemical element

From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-ita ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. condurre, guidare
  2. piombo

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  1. 率いる
  conduct or direct with authority
  2. 引く
  draw or direct by influence
  3. 案内する, 導く, 率いる 2.
  guide or conduct in a certain course
   3.
  intransitive: to guide or conduct
  4. 導く 2.
  guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection
   3.
  guide or conduct oneself
  5. 手掛かり 2.
  information obtained by a detective or police officer
   3.
  information obtained by a news reporter
  6. リードする
  intransitive: have the highest interim score in a game
  7. 到達する, 達する
  intransitive: tend or reach in a certain direction

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  1. 鉛, なまり
  chemical element
  2. 芯
  refill for writing tool

From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lat ]

  lead /led/
  1. ducere
  2. molybdus, plumbum

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  lead /led/
  1. vesti
     See also: guide
  
  2. vadovauti
     See also: guide
  
     See also: conduct
  
     See also: direct
  
  3. (pa)skatinti, (pa)raginti (kam)
  4. pirmauti
  5. švinas

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  lead /led/
  1. de weg wijzen, leiden, geleiden, rondleiden
  2. besturen, brengen, voeren
  3. loden
  4. lood

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  føre
  guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  bly 2.
  chemical element
   3.
  bullets

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  I.   1.  prowadzić (into - na)  (to - do)
   2.  [np. buntowi]  przewodzić
   3.  [nakłaniać]  doprowadzać
  II.   1.  [do czegoś]  prowadzenie
   2.  [wzór]  dobry przykład, przykład
   3.  [dla psa]  smycz
   4.  [elektryczny]  kabel, przewód
   5.  [w filmie]  główna rola
   6.  [do zrobienia czegoś]  wskazówka
  III.   1.  [głos, instrument]  prowadzący, wiodący
   2.  take the lead (take V: :the :lead)
   - przejąć prowadzenie
   3.  lead the way (lead V: :the :way)
   - iść przodem
  IV.  lead up to /lˈiːd ˈʌp tuː/  1.  prowadzić (sth - do czegoś)
   2.  zmierzać (sth - do czegoś)
  V.   1.  [metal]  ołów
   2.  [w ołówku]  grafit, rysik

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  lead /led/   
  1. liderança
  2. chumbo
  3. plúmbeo, de chumbo
  4. liderar, conduzir, dirigir, guiar

From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 :   [ freedict:eng-spa ]

  lead /led/
  1. guiar
  2. conducir, dirigir
  3. plombo

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  lead //lid// //liːd// 
  1. ledning
  act of leading or conducting
  2. föra
  guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection
  3. förhand
  in cards and dominoes
  4. ledtråd
  information obtained by a detective or police officer
  5. leda
  intransitive: be more advanced

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  lead //lɛd// 
  1. bly 2.
  chemical element
   3.
  bullets
  2. lod
  plummet to measure depth of water
  3. stift
  refill for writing tool

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. (led) yol göstermek, rehberlik etmek, götürmek, yedeğinde götürmek
  2. elinden tutup götürmek
  3. idare etmek, başkanlık etmek
  4. başına geçip yol göstermek
  5. başında olmak
  6. tesir etmek, cezbetmek, çekmek
  7. başlatmak
  8. başlamak
  9. gitmek, varmak
  10. başta gelmek
  11. netice vermek. lead a happy life mesut bir hayat sürmek. lead aside bir yana çekmek. lead astray yoldan çıkarmak
  12. bozmak, baştan çıkarmak, ayartmak. lead away alıp götürmek, uzağa götürmek. lead by the nose burnuna kancayı takmak
  13. bir kimseyi istediği şekilde idare etmek. lead in prayer başkalarının düşüncelerini dua sözleri ile belirtmek, bir heyet huzurunda yüksek sesle dua etmek. lead off başlamak, başa geçmek. lead on götürmek, teşvik etmek. lead one a dance kişisel çıkarı için zorluk çıkarmak. lead out dışarı çıkarmak. lead the way rehberlik etmek. lead up to götürmek
  14. bir bahse yol açmak
  15. sonuçlanmak.

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. kurşun
  2. (matb.) satırlar arasını açmak için kullanılan ince kurşun cetvel, anterlin
  3. iskandil
  4. kalem kurşunu, grafit
  5. saçma
  6. kurşunla doldurmak veya kaplamak
  7. (matb.) satır aralarını anterlin ile açmak
  8. çanak çömleği kurşun sır ile kaplamak
  9. pencere camlarını kurşunla tutturmak
  10. kurşunla tıkamak (tüfek)
  11. iskandil etmek. lead acetate kurşun asetat. lead color kurşun rengi, kurşuni. leadfree  kurşunsuz (benzin) lead line (den.) iskandil savlosu. lead pencil kurşunkalem. lead poisoning kurşun zehirlenmesi. lead sulphide (kim.) kurşun sülfürü. black lead kalem kurşunu. heave the lead iskandil etmek. red lead sülüğen tozu. white lead üstübeç.

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  lead /lˈiːd/
  1. rehberlik, kılavuzluk, önde bulunma
  2. önde gelme, ileride bulunma
  3. oyunda başlama hakkı
  4. buzlu sularda gemi için açık yol
  5. kaya çatlakları içinde toplanmış maden cevheri
  6. tiyatroda baş rol veya bu rolü oynayan kimse
  7. (elek.) bağlama teli
  8. (müz.) grupla söylenen şarkıda baş ses
  9. makalenin ilk cümleleri
  10. briç oyununda ilk konan kağıt veya ilk oynayacak olan kimse. have a big lead çok önde olmak, uzun mesafe almış olmak. follow the lead of one birinin ardından gitmek. take the lead başa geçmek
  11. rehber olmak.

From Hungarian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.4.1 :   [ freedict:hun-eng ]

  lead /lˈɛɑd/
  1. to transmit
  2. to hand down

From język polski-Deutsch FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:pol-deu ]

  lead /lˈit/ 
  Lead, Vorspann
  wstępna, wprowadzająca część artykułu prasowego, często wyróżniona pogrubioną czcionką;

From język polski-English FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:pol-eng ]

  lead /lˈit/ 
  lead, lead paragraph
  wstępna, wprowadzająca część artykułu prasowego, często wyróżniona pogrubioną czcionką;

From język polski-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:pol-ind ]

  lead /lˈit/ 
  bimbing
  wstępna, wprowadzająca część artykułu prasowego, często wyróżniona pogrubioną czcionką;

From język polski-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:pol-nor ]

  lead /lˈit/ 
  bly
  wstępna, wprowadzająca część artykułu prasowego, często wyróżniona pogrubioną czcionką;

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɫɛd/, /ˈɫid/

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) :   [ gazetteer2k-places ]

  Lead, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    3027
     Housing Units (2000): 1617
     Land area (2000):     1.989438 sq. miles (5.152620 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.989438 sq. miles (5.152620 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            36220
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             44.350967 N, 103.765784 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Lead, SD
      Lead
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  629 Moby Thesaurus words for "lead":
     T square, accent, accent mark, accomplishment, actor, administer,
     administrate, advance, advantage, affect, aim, aluminum, americium,
     antagonist, antecede, antecedence, antecedency, anteposition,
     anteriority, antetype, antihero, antitype, approach, archetype,
     arrow, ascendancy, attend, aureate, authority, ballast, bamboozle,
     bar, barium, be in front, be master, be responsible for,
     be the bellwether, be the front-runner, beacon, bear, begin,
     beguile, bell cow, bellwether, bend, bend to, beryllium, bias,
     bidet, biotype, bismuth, bit, bit part, blaze, blaze the trail,
     bob, brass, brassy, brazen, break ground, break the ice,
     break the trail, bring, bring about, bring on, bring up, broach,
     bronze, bronzy, cable, cadmium, calcium, call forth,
     call the signals, cancel, captain, carriage horse, carry, carry on,
     cart horse, cast, catchword, cause, cavalry horse, cerium, cesium,
     chain, chair, chaperon, character, chief, chrome, chromium,
     classic example, clue, cobalt, color, come before, come first,
     command, commence, compass needle, conduce, conduct, contribute,
     contribute to, contrive, control, convince, convoy, copper,
     coppery, cord, create, criterion, cue, cue word, cupreous, cuprous,
     custos, danseur noble, dean, deanship, deceive, decide, decoy,
     descend, determine, direct, direction, direction post, discipline,
     dispose, distance, diva, dominion, dot, doyen, draft horse,
     draw down, draw on, dray horse, driving horse, drop, dysprosium,
     edge, effect, electronics king, elicit, engage, engender, engineer,
     enlist, entice, epitome, erbium, escort, esquire, europium,
     evidence, evoke, example, exceed, excel, excellence, exemplar,
     experience, expression mark, fat part, favor, feature attraction,
     feeder, fermata, ferrous, ferruginous, fill horse, filler,
     finger post, first, first tragedian, fist, flex, fool, foregoing,
     foremost, forerun, forge ahead, front, front position, fugleman,
     fugler, gadolinium, gallium, genotype, germanium, get,
     get ahead of, get before, get going, get moving, get to do,
     get under way, gigster, gilt, go, go ahead of, go before,
     go in advance, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, govern,
     governance, government, gravitate, greatness, guard, guidance,
     guide, guideboard, guidepost, hack, hackney, hand, handle,
     handling, have a tendency, have priority, have the start, head,
     head the line, head the table, head up, heading, headliner, heavy,
     heavy lead, herald, hero, heroine, hint, hold, hold a heading,
     holmium, honcho, hoodwink, hot lead, hour hand, hunter, husbandry,
     imitatee, inaugurate, incline, incomparability, index,
     index finger, indium, induce, influence, ingenue, inimitability,
     initiate, inspire, instigate, interest in, intimation, introduce,
     inveigle, invent, iridium, iron, ironlike, jeune premier, jument,
     key, key signature, key word, kick off, king, lanthanum, lap,
     le pas, lead astray, lead off, lead on, lead role, lead the dance,
     lead the way, leaden, leader, leadership, leading, leading lady,
     leading light, leading man, leading woman, lean, leash, ligature,
     light the way, lines, lithium, live, look to, lubber line,
     luminary, lure, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, main, majority,
     make the rules, manage, management, managery, managing, maneuver,
     manganese, manipulate, manipulation, margin, mark, marshal,
     master spirit, mastermind, measure, mercurial, mercurous, mercury,
     metronomic mark, milepost, minute hand, mirror, misdirect,
     misguide, mislead, model, molybdenum, motivate, mount, move,
     needle, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, notation,
     obtain, officer, one-upmanship, order, ordering, original,
     originate, osmium, outdo, outrank, outrun, outstrip, pace,
     pack horse, palfrey, palladium, paradigm, paramount, part, pass,
     pattern, pause, person, personage, persuade, pewter, pewtery,
     phosphorus, piece, pilot, pilotage, pioneer, platinum,
     play first fiddle, plow horse, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line,
     plumb rule, plummet, plunge, point, point to, pointer, pole horse,
     polo pony, polonium, possibility, post-horse, potassium, potential,
     praseodymium, precede, precedence, precedency, precedent,
     preceding, precession, precipitate, precursor, predispose,
     predominance, predomination, preeminence, preface, preference,
     prefixation, prelude, premier, preponderance, prepotence,
     prepotency, prerogative, presa, prescribe, present, preside over,
     prestige, prevail, prima ballerina, prima donna, primacy,
     principal, priority, privilege, procure, produce, promethium,
     prompt, prospect, protactinium, protagonist, prothesis, prototype,
     provoke, pull the strings, quarterback, quicksilver, radium, rank,
     rank first, rank out, rate, recedence, redound to, regulate,
     regulation, remount, representative, restraint, rhenium, rider,
     riding horse, right-of-way, road horse, roadster, role, rouncy,
     route, rubidium, rule, run, running, ruthenium, saddle horse,
     saddler, samarium, sandbag, scandium, scent, seduce, see, segno,
     seniority, serve, set, set square, set the pace, set toward,
     settle, shaft horse, shepherd, show, show a tendency, show the way,
     side, sign, signature, signboard, signpost, silver, silver-plated,
     silvery, singer, sink, sinker, skill, skipper, slur, sodium,
     soften up, soubrette, spearhead, spend, spoor, square, squire,
     stalking-horse, stand first, stand in front, stand over, standard,
     star, steel, steely, steer, steerage, steering, straight part,
     strontium, subside, success, suggestion, sumpter, sumpter horse,
     superinduce, superintend, superiority, superstar, supervise,
     supporting character, supporting role, supremacy, surpass, sway,
     swell, symbol, take command, take out, take precedence,
     take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, tantalum,
     technetium, telltale, tempo mark, tempt, tend, tend to go, terbium,
     tether, thallium, the conn, the helm, the lead, the wheel,
     thill horse, thiller, thulium, tie, time signature, tin, tinge,
     tinny, tip, tip-off, titanium, title role, tone, top dog,
     top priority, trace, transcendence, transcendency, trend,
     try square, tungsten, turn, type, type species, type specimen,
     uranium, urgency, urtext, usher, usher in, van, vanadium, vanguard,
     verge, vestige, villain, vinculum, virtuosity, wait on, walk-on,
     walking part, warp, wear down, weigh down, weigh with, weight,
     weight down, wheeler, wheelhorse, whiff, while away,
     wield authority, wield the baton, wire, wolfram, work, work toward,
     workhorse, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 铅,领引,榜样;
  v. 引导,带领,以铅接合;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vt.
  领导,率领,领先;引导,带领;搀,牵;致使,诱使,影响;过,使某人过
     vi. 领导

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