These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicatingleads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window.
As he was going home to the palace, he met an old womanleading a golden goose.
Toguide or conduct in a certaincourse, 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; toguide somebody somewhere or tobring somebody somewhere by means ofinstructions.
The guide was able tolead the tourists through the jungle safely.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, mightlead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
1664,Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon”, inSermons Preached upon Several Occasions.[…], new edition, volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London:[…]Thomas Tegg,[…], published1843,→OCLC:
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations,lead armies, or possess places.
The spelling has been modernized.
To draw or direct byinfluence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; toinduce; to entice; to allure.
He was driven by the necessities of the times, more thanled by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions.
To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
The evidenceleads me to believe he is guilty.
(intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing,directing with authority, etc.; to haveprecedence or preeminence; to be first orchief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly tolead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger,leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
All this hasled to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.
(transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse / A life thatleads melodious days.
1969, “N.I.B.”, in John Osbourne (lyrics),Black Sabbath, performed by Black Sabbath:
Follow me now and you will not regret / Leaving the life youled before we met. / You are the first to have this love of mine, / Forever with me till the end of time.
(countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction,course
to take thelead
to be under thelead of another
1796,Edmund Burke,A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension,[…], London:[…] J. Owen,[…], andF[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington,[…],→OCLC:
At the time I speak of, and having a momentarylead,[…] I am sure I did my country important service.
(countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
the white horse had thelead.
to be in thelead
She lost thelead.
Smith managed to extend herlead over the second place to half a second.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; aleash
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.
Usage note: When used alone it meansoutside lead, or lead for the admission of steam.Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
(civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
(horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
The investigation stalled when allleads 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.
The police have a couple ofleads they will follow to solve the case.
(marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerousleads 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.
The contestants are all tied; no one has thelead position.
2006, Ronald Mak,The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems:
For the first time ever, the senior architect andlead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks[…]
Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-prime minister, has missed a verdict in a negligence trial that could have seen her jailed, prompting the Supreme Court to say it will issue an arrest warrant fearing she is a flight risk, according to thelead judge in the case.
Perhaps from a confusion or conflation withread, which has a single spelling for both past and present tenses, but has differing pronunciations in the same way aslead, i.e. the present's vowel is/i/, and the past's is/ɛ/. See alsored andredd, the obsolete spellings ofread.
Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verbfog, e.g.le fog adni.
The archaic passive conjugation had the same-(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by-ik in the 3rd-person singular (and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional-ik verbs).
The prefix can split from the verb stem, e.g.nem ad le or le is ad.
lead in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
