lead 意味

名詞 (Noun)PLleads

(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).

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

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

(uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

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

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

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

I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. — Bacon

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

(slang) Bullets; ammunition.

They pumped him full of lead.

(uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.

At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, [ …] I am sure I did my country important service. — Edmund Burke

(uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat’s length, or of half a second; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.

Blackburn then regained the lead with a simplest of set-piece goals

(countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

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

The runner took his lead from first.

(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.

(countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.

(countable, mining) A lode.

(nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.

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

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.

Charging lead.

(civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

(horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. — Claudias Saunier.

Hypothesis that has not been pursued.

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

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

(marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.

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

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

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

(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.).

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

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

(music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.

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

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

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

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

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

動詞 (Verb)SGleadsPRleadingPT, PPleadedPT, PPled

(transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.

(heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.

a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man ‎
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way.
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places.
The evidence leads me to believe he is guilty. ‎

(transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.

to lead a page; leaded matter

(heading) To begin, to be ahead.

the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages ‎
He led the ace of spades. ‎
The batter always leads off base. ‎

(intransitive) 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.

(transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.

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

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

To produce (with to).

The shock led to a change in his behaviour. ‎

Misspelling of led.

形容詞 (Adjective)

(not comparable) Foremost.
1. The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.

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文の途中で使用される
- A better understanding of the pathogenic events leading to dementia in variant TTR meningovascular amyloidosis may lead to novel treatment strategies for this debilitating and fatal disease.
- We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating
- “New York was a leader in postwar suburbanization and is now leading the trend toward suburban aging,” Dr. Frey said.
文の初めに使われる
- Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.
- Leaded petrol was phased out in the course of the 1990s.
- Led by one of the war's greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, and buoyed by the hope for American aid, the British stoutheartedly lived through their "finest hour".
文の終わに使われる
- A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
- Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead.

Definition of lead in English Dictionary

Meaning of lead for the defined word.