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lead verb

  /lɛd/
  • (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
chumbo, grafite, mina, prumo
  • (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
chumbo, chumbar, grafite, mina, prumo

lead noun

  /lɛd/
  • (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.
chumbo
  • (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
chumbar
  • (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
chumbar, prumo
  • Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
grafite, mina

lead noun

  /lid/ , /liːd/
  • Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
conduzir, levar, guiar, liderar, pista
  • (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
conduzir, levar, guiar, começar, sair
  • 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.
conduzir, levar, liderar, guiar
  • (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
levar, guiar
  • (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
liderar, liderança, preceder
  • (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
levar, condução, liderar
  • (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
guiar
  • (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  • A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
liderar

lead verb

  /lid/ , /liːd/
  • 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.
conduzir, levar, guiar, começar, condução, liderar
  • 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).
conduzir, levar, guiar, liderar
  • To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
  • (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
  • (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
  • (intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
  • (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
liderar
  • (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
liderar, liderança, preceder
  • To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
  • (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
levar

leading noun

  /ˈlɛdɪŋ/
  • (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.
entrelinha, espaçamento entre linhas
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