lead
verb
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- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
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plumbum
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lead
noun
/lɛd/
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- (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).
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
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plumbum
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lead
noun
/lid/
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/liːd/
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- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- 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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duco,
dūcō
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ducere
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- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (music) 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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dūcō
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- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- 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.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
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dūcō,
ducere
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lead
verb
/lid/
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/liːd/
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- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
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duco
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- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
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dūcō
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- 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.
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dūcō,
ducere
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