lead
英 [liːd]
美[lid]
- n. 领导；铅；导线；榜样
- vt. 领导；致使；引导；指挥
- vi. 领导；导致；用水砣测深
- adj. 带头的；最重要的
- n. (Lead)人名；(英)利德
英英释意
- 1. a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray;
- "the children were playing with lead soldiers"
- 2. an advantage held by a competitor in a race;
- "he took the lead at the last turn"
- 3. evidence pointing to a possible solution;
- "the police are following a promising lead"
- "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
- 4. 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"
- 5. the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- 6. the introductory section of a story;
- "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter"
- 7. an actor who plays a principal role
- 8. (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base;
- "he took a long lead off first"
- 9. an indication of potential opportunity;
- "he got a tip on the stock market"
- "a good lead for a job"
- 10. a news story of major importance
- 11. the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- 12. restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- 13. thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- 14. mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- 15. a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire;
- "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"
- 16. the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge;
- "the lead was in the dummy"