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lead verb

  /lɛd/
  • (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  • (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
 bly, lod

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.
 bly
  • (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.
 lod

leading noun

  /ˈlɛdɪŋ/
  • (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.
 radavstånd

lead noun

  /lid/ , /liːd/
  • 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.)
 leda, föra
  • (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
 leda, föra, förhand
  • Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
 leda, ledtråd
  • (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
  • (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
 leda, ledning
  • (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  • (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
 leda

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 guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
 leda, föra, ledning, ledtråd
  • To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
  • To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
  • (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
  • (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
 leda
  • (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
 ledning, leda
  • (transitive, cards, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
 förhand

leading adjective

  /ˈlidɪŋ/ , /ˈliːdɪŋ/
  • Providing guidance or direction.
  • Ranking first.
 ledande

leaded adjective

  /ˈledəd/ , /ˈlɛdɪd/
  • Containing or treated with the element lead.
 blyad
leading diagonal
huvuddiagonal
leading-strings
ledband
leading question
ledande fråga
world leading
världsledande
leading tone
blödig
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