lead
noun · verb · adjectiveA2- Tiếng Việt:
- dẫn đầu, lãnh đạo
dẫn đầu, lãnh đạo. Họ từ LEAD — danh từ: leader, leadership; động từ: lead; tính từ: leading.
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Danh từ
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).
Đồng nghĩa: plumbum
- 2.
(countable)(countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- 4.
(uncountable)(uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
- 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.
Đồng nghĩa: pencil lead
- 8.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Bullets; ammunition.
They pumped him full of lead.
- 9.
(countable, in plural, uncountable)(medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
You must remember to wear your leads.
- 10.
(countable)The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
to take the lead
to be under the lead of another
- 11.
(countable)Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
the white horse had the lead.
to be in the lead
She lost the lead.
Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second.
- 12.
(UK, countable)An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
- 2.
(historical, transitive)(transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
to lead a page
leaded matter
- 3.
(heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
- 4.
(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.
- 5.
(heading) To begin, to be ahead.
- 6.
To begin, to be ahead.
- 7.
(intransitive)To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
the path leads to the mill
- 8.
(intransitive)To be a cause of. [with to]
gambling leads to other vices
Đồng nghĩa: lead to
- 9.
(transitive, usually)(transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- 10.
Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- 11.
(alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of led.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Foremost.
The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.
Đồng nghĩa: first, front, head, leader, leading
- 2.
(not comparable)Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
the lead guitarist in band
the lead developer on a software project
Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-prime minister, has missed a verdict in a negligence trial that could have seen her jailed, prompting the Supreme Court to say it will issue an arrest warrant fearing she is a flight risk, according to the lead judge in the case.
Cụm từ thường dùng
lead to
giới từ đi kèm
lead the way
cụm thông dụng
strong leadership
cụm thông dụng
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From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (lead), from *laud (lead), possibly borrowed from *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (to flow).