Leader

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any person who leads or directs.

   “In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.”

2. isim One who goes first.

   “Follow the leader.”

3. isim One having authority to direct.

   “We elected her team leader.”

4. isim One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

   “Leader of the House of Commons”

5. isim A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

   “The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.”

6. isim A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
7. isim The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
8. isim The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

   “The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.”

9. isim An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.

   “Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.”

10. isim Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

    “How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.””

11. isim A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.

    “A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."”

12. isim A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
13. isim The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
14. isim A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
15. isim A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.

    “If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.”

16. isim An intertitle.

    “The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.”

17. isim A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
18. isim A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
19. isim A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
20. isim A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

    “when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower”

21. özel isim A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.
22. özel isim A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.
23. özel isim A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.
24. özel isim A populated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States.