lead

Significado

Noun

1. 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. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
3. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
4. Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
5. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
6. A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
7. A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
8. (slang) bullets; ammunition.
9. X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.

Verb

1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
2. To place leads between the lines of.

Verb

1. To guide or conduct.
2. To guide or conduct.
3. To guide or conduct.
4. To guide or conduct.
5. To guide or conduct.
6. 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.
7. To begin, to be ahead.
8. To begin, to be ahead.
9. To begin, to be ahead.
10. To begin, to be ahead.
11. To begin, to be ahead.
12. To begin, to be ahead.
13. To begin, to be ahead.
14. To begin, to be ahead.
15. To begin, to be ahead.
16. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
17. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
18. To produce (with to).
19. Misspelling of led.
20. To live or experience (a particular way of life).

Adj

1. Foremost.
2. Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.

Verb

Misspelling of led.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lɛd/

Etimología

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From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”).
Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“lead”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.
* (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.

Oraciones

It has Ramsha Khan and Affan Waheed in lead roles .

Tiene Ramsha Khan y Affan Waheed en papeles principales.