Black lead () Plumbago |
Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise. |
Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
Lead (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead |
Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. |
Lead (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. |
Lead (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs |
Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. |
Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead |
Lead (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known |
Lead (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority |
Lead (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of |
Lead (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course) |
Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with |
Lead (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc. |
Lead (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place |
Lead (n.) The act of leading or conducting |
Lead (n.) precedence |
Lead (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round |
Lead (n.) An open way in an ice field. |
Lead (n.) A lode. |
Lead (n.) The course of a rope from end to end. |
Lead (n.) 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. |
Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. |
Lead (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. |
Leaden (a.) Made of lead |
Leaden (a.) Like lead in color, etc. |
Leaden (a.) Heavy |
Weight (v. t.) The quality of being heavy |
Weight (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness |
Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure |
Weight (v. t.) Importance |
Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness |
Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass |
Weight (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies |
Weight (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. |
Weight (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights |
Weight (v. t.) To assign a weight to |
weight gaining | bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight |
lead | the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge, the lead was in the dummy |
lead | a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'), he takes the lead in any group, we were just waiting for someone to take the lead, they didn't follow our lead |
clip lead | a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends |
jumper cable jumper lead lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
lead pencil lead | mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness, the marking substance in a pencil |
lead leading | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing |
lead-acid battery lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
lead-in | wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line |
lead line sounding line | (nautical) plumb line for determining depth |
lead pencil | pencil that has graphite as the marking substance |
leash tether lead | restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal |
sash weight | a counterweight for a sliding sash |
sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
weight | an artifact that is heavy |
weight free weight exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
equivalent equivalent weight combining weight eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
weight | the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
body weight | the weight of a person's body |
reporting weight | a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
throw-weight | the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket) |
spark advance lead | the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internalombustion engine |
lead | an advantage held by a competitor in a race, he took the lead at the last turn |
weight weightiness | the relative importance granted to something, his opinion carries great weight, the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed |
lead track trail | evidence pointing to a possible solution, the police are following a promising lead, the trail led straight to the perpetrator |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
lead lead-in lede | the introductory section of a story, it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter |
lead lead story | a news story of major importance |
tip lead steer confidential information wind hint | an indication of potential opportunity, he got a tip on the stock market, a good lead for a job |
lead sheet | a sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form |
weight | an oppressive feeling of heavy force, bowed down by the weight of responsibility |
lead bank agent bank | a bank named by a lending syndicate of several banks to protect their interests |
lead | (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base, he took a long lead off first |
gainer weight gainer | a person who gains weight |
low-birth-weight baby low-birth-weight infant | an infant born weighing less than . pounds ( grams) regardless of gestational age, a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor |
star principal lead | an actor who plays a principal role |
lead tree white popinac Leucaena glauca Leucaena leucocephala | low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods |
leadplant lead plant Amorpha canescens | shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dullolored racemose flowers, thought to indicate the presence of lead ore |
weight weighting | (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance |
lead | (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning |
weight unit weight | a unit used to measure weight, he placed two weights in the scale pan |
system of weights weight | a system of units used to express the weight of something |
avoirdupois avoirdupois weight | a system of weights based on the -ounce pound (or , grains) |
troy troy weight | a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones, based on a -ounce pound and an ounce ofgrains |
apothecaries' unit apothecaries' weight | any weight unit used in pharmacy, an ounce is equal tograins and a pound is equal to ounces |
metric weight unit weight unit | a decimal unit of weight based on the gram |
gram atom gram-atomic weight | the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element |