Lead

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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).
2. isim A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
3. isim A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
4. isim 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.”

5. isim Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
6. isim A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

   “I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top.”

7. isim A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
8. isim Bullets; ammunition.

   “They pumped him full of lead.”

9. isim X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.

   “You must remember to wear your leads.”

10. fiil To cover, fill, or affect with lead.

    “continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.”

11. fiil To place leads between the lines of.

    “to lead a page”

12. fiil To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.

    “a father leads a child”

13. fiil 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.

    “The guide was able to lead the tourists through the jungle safely.”

14. fiil To direct; to counsel; to instruct.

    “A good teacher should lead their students to the right answer.”

15. fiil To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.

    “to lead a political party”

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

    “to lead someone to a righteous cause”

17. fiil To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.

    “The evidence leads me to believe he is guilty.”

18. fiil 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.
19. fiil To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.

    “the big sloop led the fleet of yachts;  the Guards led the attack;  Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages”

20. fiil To proceed in front of others; to go first.

    “The standard-bearers led and the rest of the marchers followed.”

21. fiil To be more advanced in technology or business than others.

    “It leads in the information technology sector.”

22. fiil To begin a game, round, or trick, with

    “to lead trumps”

23. fiil To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
24. fiil To have the highest interim score in a game.
25. fiil To step off base and move towards the next base.

    “The batter always leads off base.”

26. fiil To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
27. fiil To lead climb.
28. fiil To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.

    “the path leads to the mill”

29. fiil To be a cause of.

    “gambling leads to other vices”

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

    “That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.”