Black lead () Plumbago |
Datum (n.) Something given or admitted |
Datum (n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. |
Horizon (n.) The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point |
Horizon (n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place |
Horizon (n.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center |
Horizon (n.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible. |
Horizon (n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made. |
Horizon (n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator |
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. |
Marker (n.) One who or that which marks. |
Marker (n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. |
Marker (n.) A counter used in card playing and other games. |
Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. |
Marker (n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it. |
Standard (n.) A flag |
Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality |
Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent |
Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold |
Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow. |
Standard (n.) A large drinking cup. |
standing operating procedure standard operating procedure SOP standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
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 |
standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
artificial horizon gyro horizon flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
billiard marker | a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards |
Clark cell Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
clip lead | a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends |
felt-tip pen felt-tipped pen felt tip Magic Marker | a pen with a writing tip made of felt (trade name Magic Marker) |
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 |
marker | some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something, the buoys were markers for the channel |
marker | a writing implement for making a mark |
sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
standard banner | any distinctive flag |
standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
yard marker | (football) a marker indicating the yard line |
spark advance lead | the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internalombustion engine |
horizon view purview | the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated, It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge |
lead | an advantage held by a competitor in a race, he took the lead at the last turn |
stratum corneum corneum horny layer | the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off |
stratum lucidum | the layer of epidermis immediately under the stratum corneum in the skin of the palms and soles |
stratum granulosum | the layer of epidermis just under the stratum corneum or (on the palms and soles) just under the stratum lucidum, contains cells (with visible granules) that die and move to the surface |
stratum germinativum stratum basale malpighian layer rete Malpighii | the innermost layer of the epidermis |
genetic marker | a specific gene that produces a recognizable trait and can be used in family or population studies |
sensation esthesis aesthesis sense experience sense impression sense datum | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation, a sensation of touch |
datum data point | an item of factual information derived from measurement or research |
lead track trail | evidence pointing to a possible solution, the police are following a promising lead, the trail led straight to the perpetrator |
gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
level layer stratum | an abstract place usually conceived as having depth, a good actor communicates on several levels, a simile has at least two layers of meaning, the mind functions on many strata simultaneously |
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 |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
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 |