lead

(Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To guide or conduct.
2. (transitive) To guide or conduct.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To guide or conduct.
4. (transitive) To guide or conduct.
5. (transitive) To guide or conduct.
6. (transitive) To guide or conduct.
7. (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.
8. (transitive) To begin, to be ahead.
9. (intransitive) To begin, to be ahead.
10. (intransitive) To begin, to be ahead.
11. (transitive) To begin, to be ahead.
12. (intransitive) To begin, to be ahead.
13. (intransitive) To begin, to be ahead.
14. To begin, to be ahead.
15. To begin, to be ahead.
16. (transitive) To begin, to be ahead.
17. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
18. (intransitive) To be a cause of.
19. (transitive, usually) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
20. Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
21. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of led.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Foremost.
2. (not-comparable) Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.

Verb

Misspelling of led.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/lɛd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: led

Hérité de ancien anglais: lēad

Appartenant à écossais: leid

Appartenant à frison septentrional: lud

Appartenant à frison occidental: lead

Appartenant à néerlandais: lood

Appartenant à allemand: Lot

Appartenant à suédois: lod

Appartenant à islandais: lóð

Appartenant à irlandais: luaidhe

Appartenant à latin: plumbum

Appartenant à finnois: luoti

Hérité de moyen anglais: leden

Hérité de ancien anglais: lǣdan

Appartenant à frison occidental: liede

Appartenant à néerlandais: leiden

Appartenant à allemand: leiten

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: lede

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: leia

Appartenant à suédois: leda

Appartenant à ancien anglais: līþan

In summary

From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), possibly 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”), Low German Lod (“solder, plummet”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“solder, plummet”), 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.

Concepts

plomb

mener

conduire

guider

diriger

amener

aboutir

régler

commander

précéder

laisse

piste

administrer

mine

pousser

entraîner

tête

avance

gérer

tuyau

principal

plomber

prospect

déboucher

avancer

en tête

soudure

faire

présider

pointe

causer

piloter

🧑‍✈️

broche de raccordement

donner

aller

déterminer

déplacer

avant-garde

courir

avantage

ajouter

contribuer

conduite

initiative

gouverner

aider

acheminer

générer

cœur

❤️

fil à plomb

Synonymes

guide

conduct

direct

head

bring

drive

take

manage

escort

precede

run

command

show the way

control

induce

carry

convey

steer

leadership

go

move

bring with

chair

🪑

leading

govern

leash

influence

preside

go first

clue

tin

guidance

graphite

spearhead

live

plumbum

tip

persuade

pilot

🧑‍✈️

conduce

first

1st

cause

hint

accompanied

handle

advance

rule

moderate

go ahead

result

Phrases

Eventually , Labour Party gained a solid lead over National .

Finalement, le parti travailliste a gagné une solide avance sur National.

Money is held for spending , and increases in money supplies lead to increased spending .

L'argent est détenu pour les dépenses et l'augmentation des fournitures d'argent entraîne une augmentation des dépenses.

She also became the lead singer of a band named Kendix.

Elle est également devenue la chanteuse principale d'un groupe nommé Kendix.

It has Ramsha Khan and Affan Waheed in lead roles .

Il a Ramsha Khan et Affan Waheed dans des rôles principaux.

Quantum deformations of the universal enveloping algebra lead to the notion of quantum groups .

Les déformations quantiques de l'algèbre enveloppante universelle conduisent à la notion de groupes quantiques.

These roadways lead to drop-off and pick-up areas and short and long-stay car parks .

Ces routes conduisent à des zones de dépôt et de ramassage et à des parkings courts et longs.