Word Finder - lead

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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).

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A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.

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A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

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Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

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This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.

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Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.

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(plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

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A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.

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Bullets; ammunition.

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They pumped him full of lead.

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To cover, fill, or affect with lead

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continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.

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To place leads between the lines of.

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leaded matter

Lead the way my subject.

It can lead us to victory.

He's sought out anyone he thinks might lead him in the right direction.

He's singing like the choir lead at a church revival.

Slipping her hand through his extended elbow, she let him lead her into the center of the room.

Each team has three members, a lead person and two back-ups.

Friends tried to discourage this tendency, fearing lest it would lead to disappointment.

I'm immune to lead! he said and laughed.

What would lead them to suspect that?

She was annoyed because she feared it would lead to unhappiness.

She stepped into the clammy, wet world of fog and darkness, pausing to focus on the portal that would lead to her sister.s house.

You want to lead another deity through my domain without my permission.

Maybe a bad piece of information did lead to the deaths of millions.

She scoured each side of the hall for signs labeling what doors might lead to what.

I simply want to follow his lead.

I will lead you to it.

They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.

As the maître d' lead them to their table, he was acutely aware of the heads turning to watch them.

He had done it every day he served her as her lead assassin and he was doing it now as Death.

They lead me about and show me the things they are interested in.

I have done nothing, I didn't lead him on at all.

The shout went unnoticed until the panicked bartender grabbed the mike of the lead rocker.

Speck shifted away from him, a response Dusty was accustomed to after thousands of years as Damian's lead executioner.

The leading products of the blast-furnace are argentiferous lead (base bullion), matte, slag and flue-dust (fine particles of charge and volatilized metal carried out of the furnace by the ascending gas current).

The lead is melted down slowly, when the impurities separate in the form of a scum (dross), which is easily removed.

Thus the level of the lead is kept approximately constant, and the silver becomes concentrated in the lead.

You have profited by their toil to lead a profligate life.

The police sometimes don't even hear the entire tip... just enough to lead them in the right direction, and find the person.

He and the others followed his lead.

He was simply trying to lead the subject away.

Liquation, if not followed by poling, is carried on as a rule in a reverberatory furnace with an oblong, slightly trough-shaped inclined hearth; if the lead is to be poled it is usually melted down in a cast-iron kettle.

If the lead is to be liquated and then brought to a bright-red heat, both operations are carried on in the same reverberatory furnace.

Silver is extracted from lead by means of the process of cupellation.

Formerly all argentiferous lead had to be cupelled, and the resulting litharge then reduced to metallic lead.

In 1833 Pattinson invented his process by means of which practically all the silver is concentrated in 13% of the original lead to be cupelled, while the rest becomes market lead.

In the beginning of the operation enough argentiferous lead is charged to fill the cavity of the test.

At the same time small bars of argentiferous lead, inserted at the back, are slowly pushed forward, so that in melting down they may replace the oxidized lead.

To the kettle, two-thirds full of crystals of lead, is now added lead of the same tenor in silver, the whole is liquefied, and the cooling, crystallizing, skimming and ladling are repeated.

The plant consists of two tilting oval metal pans (capacity 7 tons), one cylindrical crystallizing pot (capacity 22 tons), with two discharging spouts and one steam inlet opening, two lead moulds (capacity 31 tons), and a steam crane.

Supposing the pot to be filled with melted lead to be treated, the fire is withdrawn beneath and steam introduced.

This cools and stirs the lead when crystals begin to form.

I was left a kingdom with no idea how to lead.

The white and red lead are mixed together to form a putty, and are filled into the socket alternately with layers of well-caulked yarn, starting with yarn and finishing off with the lead mixture.

The plan of the Propylaea consists of a large square hall, from which five steps lead up to a wall pierced by five gateways of graduated sizes, the central one giving passage to a road suitable for beasts or possibly for vehicles.

It holds its own, however, when base bullion contains bismuth in appreciable amounts, as in the Pattinson process bismuth follows the lead to be cupelled, while in the Parkes process it remains with the desilverized lead which goes to market, and lead of commerce should contain little bismuth.

The base bullion is imperfectly Pattinsonized, giving lead rich in silver and bismuth, which is cupelled, and lead low in silver, and especially so in bismuth, which is further desilverized by the Parkes process.

Most kettles at present hold 30 tons of lead; some, however, have double that capacity.

When zinc is placed on the lead (heated to above the melting-point of zinc), liquefied and brought into intimate contact with the lead by stirring, gold, copper, silver and lead will combine with the zinc in the order given.

After it has been melted down and brought to a red heat, the blast, admitted at the back, oxidizes the lead and drives the litharge formed towards the front, where it is run off.

As soon as two-thirds of the lead has separated in the form of crystals, the steam is shut off and the liquid lead drained off through the two spouts into the moulds.