Black lead () Plumbago |
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. |
Over-story (n.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building. |
Story (v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level |
Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred |
Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event |
Story (n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie |
Story (v. t.) To tell in historical relation |
Story-teller (n.) One who tells stories |
Story-teller (n.) An historian |
Story-teller (n.) A euphemism or child's word for |
Story-telling (a.) Being accustomed to tell stories. |
Story-telling (n.) The act or practice of telling stories. |
Story-writer (n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines. |
Story-writer (n.) An historian |
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 |
floor level storey story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
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 |
sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
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 |
lead track trail | evidence pointing to a possible solution, the police are following a promising lead, the trail led straight to the perpetrator |
news article news story newspaper article | an article reporting news |
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 |
story | a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events, he writes stories for the magazines |
adventure story heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
mystery mystery story whodunit | a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie |
detective story | a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution |
love story romance | a story dealing with love |
short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
history account chronicle story | a record or narrative description of past events, a history of France, he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president, the story of exposure to lead |
biography life life story life history | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
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 |
report news report story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
fib story tale tarradiddle taradiddle | a trivial lie, he told a fib about eating his spinach, how can I stop my child from telling stories? |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story cock-and-bull story song and dance | an interesting but highly implausible story, often told as an excuse |
dirty joke dirty story blue joke blue story | an indelicate joke |
funny story good story funny remark funny | an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line), she told a funny story, she made a funny |
shaggy dog story | a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness |
lead sheet | a sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form |
narrative narration story tale | a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events, presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program, his narrative was interesting, Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children |
sob story sob stuff | a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress, designed to arouse sympathy |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story | a story about fairies, told to amuse children |
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 |
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 |
lead | (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning |
lead | the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) |
lead poisoning plumbism saturnism | toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system |
lead colic painter's colic | symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation |
lead arsenate | a poisonous white solid (Pb[AsO]) used as an insecticide |
tetraethyl lead lead tetraethyl | a clear oily poisonous liquid added to gasoline to prevent knocking |
lead Pb atomic number | a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element, bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey, the children were playing with lead soldiers |