Word Finder - leads

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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

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The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course

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to be under the lead of another

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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.

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She lost the lead.

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An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

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The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.

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The runner took his lead from first.

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The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

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your partner has the lead

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The main role in a play or film; the lead role.

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The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.

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A channel of open water in an ice field.

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A lode.

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The course of a rope from end to end.

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A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash

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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.

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Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.

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Charging lead.

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The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

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The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.

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Hypothesis that has not been pursued

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The investigation stalled when all leads turned out to be dead ends.

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Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.

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The police have a couple of leads they will follow to solve the case.

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Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.

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Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.

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Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.

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The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.

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(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.)

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An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast

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The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.

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In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor

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The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.

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A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.

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The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.

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The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.

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The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.

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(heading) To guide or conduct.

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To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.

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(heading) To begin, to be ahead.

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To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure

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to lead someone to a righteous cause

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To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.

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the path leads to the mill;  gambling leads to other vices

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To produce (with to).

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The shock led to a change in his behaviour.

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(transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).

I have no leads on anyone else, Jule replied.

Rhyn leads the Council.

It is possible to suppose that this condition is derived from the astelic condition already referred to, but the evidence on the whole leads to the conclusion that it has ansen byan increase in the number of the bundles within the stele, the individuality of the bundle asserting itself after its escape from the original bundle-ring of the primitive cylinder.

Queen Street, the principal thoroughfare, leads inland from the main dock, and contains the majority of the public buildings.

A spiral stairway leads from the base of this pedestal to the torch.

The direct action of changed conditions leads to definite or indefinite results.

The whole business with Annie Quincy leads up to a similar suicide.

Haeckel regards it as the equivalent of the manubrium, and as it is implanted on the blind end of the pneumatophore, such a view leads necessarily to the air-sack and gland being a development on the ex-umbral surface of the medusa-person.

The FBI had put out a statement they were handling the Wasserman case and pur­suing strong leads out of state.

The result, if considered alone, inevitably leads to an underestimate of the average amplitude of the regular diurnal variation.

Cuvier on anatomical, and Von Baer on embryological grounds, made the further step of proving that, even in this limited sense, animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organization to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated modification, leads to any of the others.

The Woman Soul leads us upward and on!

There were leads, but few.

Here, at the highest level, there are a number of " upper reception lines " converging to a single line which leads to a group of " sorting sidings " at a lower level.

But what about a reasoned belief based on a balanced look at both history and current reality that leads you to be optimistic?

This is one of the few areas in which government taxation actually leads to a more efficient outcome.

This leads to the proverbial "lean years" and "fat years."

More information leads to more peace, unless you want to argue that ignorance is more peaceful.

This all leads to more peaceful states.

As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up his mind that they would be friends.

Still, there were more false leads than successes before the hall clocked tolled eleven and Cynthia announced it was beyond everyone's bedtime.

From Bordeaux there is also a direct line to Bayonne and Irun (for Madrid), and at the other end of the Pyrenees a line leads from Narbonne to Perpignan and Barcelona.

A further gentle rise in the high steppes leads to the mountains of the West Australian coast, and another strip of low-lying coastal land to the sea.

They often end in a cul-de-sac. The principal street is the rue de la Kasbah, which leads up to the citadel by 497 steps.

The presence of more than a small percentage of resin in the latex leads to the production of rubber containing much resin, which seriously depreciates its commercial value for most purposes.

Uncombined sulphur is injurious, and often leads to the decay of vulcanized goods, but an excess of sulphur is generally required in order to ensure perfect vulcanization.

The mouth, which is quite devoid of armature, leads imperceptibly into a short and dorsally directed oesophagus.

Just as cogrediency leads to a theory of covariants, so contragrediency leads to a theory of contravariants.

Hence a beautiful road, immortalized by Goethe in Dichtung and Wahrheit, leads across the Vosges to Pfalzburg.

The intervening kettles contain leads with silver contents ranging from above market to below cupelling lead.

A road also leads northward, by Sinjar, to Mosul, crossing the river on a stone bridge, built in 1897, the only permanent bridge over the Euphrates south of Asia Minor.

Abelard also perceived that Realism, by separating the universal substance from the forms which individualize it, makes the universal indifferent to these forms, and leads directly to the doctrine of the identity of all beings in one universal substance or matter - a pantheism which might take either an Averroistic or a Spinozistic form.

What Abelard combats is the substantiation of these resembling qualities, which leads to their being regarded as identical in all the separate individuals, and thus paves the way for the gradual undermining of the individual, the only true and indivisible substance.

Evolution and involution are usually regarded as operations of ordinary algebra; this leads to a notation for powers and roots, and a theory of irrational algebraic quantities analogous to that of irrational numbers.

In consequence of this excess of births there is a struggle for existence and a survival of the fittest, and consequently an ever-present necessarily acting selection, which either maintains accurately the form of the species from generation to generation or leads to its modification in correspondence with changes in the surrounding circumstances which have relation to its fitness for success in the struggle for life.

But it must not be forgotten that the problems presented by human communities are extremely complex, and that the absence of any selection of healthy or desirable stock in the breeding of human communities leads to undesirable consequences.

A diminution of X thus leads to a simple proportional shrinkage of the diffraction pattern, attended by an augmentation of brilliancy in proportion to A-2.

The conception of the lamina leads immediately to two schemes, according to which a primary wave may be supposed to be broken up. In the first of these the element dS, the effect of which is to be estimated, is supposed to execute its actual motion, while every other element of the plane lamina is maintained at rest.

Oxford Street, with its handsome shops, bounds the borough on the south, crossing Regent Street at Oxford Circus; Edgware Road on the west; Marylebone Road crosses from east to west, .and from this Upper Baker Street gives access to Park, Wellington, and Finchley Roads; and Baker Street leads southward.

It lies on the navigable Przemsa, across which an iron bridge leads to the Polish town of Modrzejow, 120 m.

His restlessness leads us at times to a comparison with Skelton, not in respect of any parallelism of idea or literary craftsmanship, but in his experimental zeal in turning the diction and tuning the rhythms of the chaotic English which only Chaucer's genius had reduced to order.

A study of the changes going on in the rif tvalley in which the lakes lie leads, however, to the belief that the Albert Edward and Albert Nyanzas are drying up, a process which the nature of the drainage areas is helping to bring about.

His own special "leads" were few, owing to the personal reasons given above; his declaration at the Queen's Hall, London, early in 1907, in favour of drastic land reform, served only to encourage a number of extremists; and the Liberal enthusiasm against the House of Lords, violently excited in 1 9 06 by the fate of the Education Bill and Plural Voting Bill, was rather damped than otherwise, when his method of procedure by resolution of the House of Commons was disclosed in 1907.

The evidence afforded by the poem rather leads to the conclusion that the tradition contains some germ of fact.

For many centuries this district between London and Westminster was a kind of " no man's land " having certain archaic customs. Gomme in his Governance of London (1907) gives an account of the connexion of this with the old village of Aldwich, a name that survived in Wych Street, and has been revived by the London County Council in Aldwych, the crescent which leads to Kingsway.

This leads to the adoption of the room and pillar system so common in coal-mining.

The Dorah, however, is not the only pass which leads into the Chitral valley from the Oxus.

The Mandal pass, a few miles south of the Dorah, is the connecting link between the Oxus and the Bashgol valley of Kafiristan; and the Bashgol valley leads directly to the Chitral valley at Arnawai, about 50 m.

The presence in a metal of even small proportions of arsenide generally leads to considerable deterioration in mechanical qualities.

Most metals when molten are capable of dissolving at least small proportions of carbon, which, in general, leads to a deterioration in metallicity, except in the case of iron, which by the addition of small percentages of carbon gains in elasticity and tensile strength with little loss of plasticity.