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noun
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- (rail transport, road transport) An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
- (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
- (Philippines) A jump wire.
noun
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (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).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, 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.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
verb
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (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.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
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noun
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a coverall worn by children
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
noun
adj
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
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verb
noun
- (UK, Ireland) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- (especially in the plural, sometimes controversial) A person (see usage notes).
- (colloquial) Thing, item (term that can be used to refer to any entity)
- (informal, term of address) dude, Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- (colloquial) Anything seen to have character and personality, such as an animal or a toy.
- (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- (colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
- a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
- an informal term for a youth or man
noun
- A device for securing a rope, strap, or cable at a particular level of tension.
- (film) A type of shot in which the camera is fixed to a mount and unable to move.
- (climbing) The act of pulling down on a hold with one arm until the arm is fully bent at the elbow and using that arm to support one's weight.
- A lockdown of part of a facility.
- (engineering) The act of fixing a ground anchor in place at a specific tension calculated to accommodate the expected load. Also, the tension at which the ground anchor has been fixed.
- Any of various mechanisms that prevent a device or circuit from operating under certain circumstances, typically as a safety feature.
- A timeshare that allows a section to be sealed off from the rest of the unit and rented separately.
noun
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- (computing) An instant messenger program.
- (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- One who brings messages.
- (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
- (figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
- (bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
- The secretary bird.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- a person who carries a message
verb
noun
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
verb
noun
- A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.
- A cyprinid fish of species Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
- A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.
- A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.
- Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
- large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox
noun
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
verb
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
verb
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
noun
- A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
- (usually in the plural) A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
- (sewing) A triangular embroidery stitch.
- especially, in genus Ranunculus
- (databases) A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
- A caltrop.
- A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- Certain flowering plants
- large tree of Australasia
- a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
noun
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.
- (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- (informal) A baby boomer.
- An adult male kangaroo.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
- (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- Something that makes a booming sound.
- (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
- a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
noun
- A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
- (figurative) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
- (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
- (figurative) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
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verb
noun
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
noun
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
verb
noun
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- (rail transport, road transport) An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
- (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
- (Philippines) A jump wire.
noun
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (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).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, 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.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
verb
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (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.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
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- A device for securing a rope, strap, or cable at a particular level of tension.
- (film) A type of shot in which the camera is fixed to a mount and unable to move.
- (climbing) The act of pulling down on a hold with one arm until the arm is fully bent at the elbow and using that arm to support one's weight.
- A lockdown of part of a facility.
- (engineering) The act of fixing a ground anchor in place at a specific tension calculated to accommodate the expected load. Also, the tension at which the ground anchor has been fixed.
- Any of various mechanisms that prevent a device or circuit from operating under certain circumstances, typically as a safety feature.
- A timeshare that allows a section to be sealed off from the rest of the unit and rented separately.
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- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- (computing) An instant messenger program.
- (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- One who brings messages.
- (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
- (figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
- (bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
- The secretary bird.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- a person who carries a message
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- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
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- A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.
- A cyprinid fish of species Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
- A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.
- A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.
- Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
- large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox
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- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
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- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
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- A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
- (usually in the plural) A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
- (sewing) A triangular embroidery stitch.
- especially, in genus Ranunculus
- (databases) A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
- A caltrop.
- A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- Certain flowering plants
- large tree of Australasia
- a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
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- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.
- (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- (informal) A baby boomer.
- An adult male kangaroo.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
- (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- Something that makes a booming sound.
- (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
- a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
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- A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
- (figurative) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
- (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
- (figurative) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
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- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
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- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
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- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a coverall worn by children
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
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- (UK, Ireland) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- (especially in the plural, sometimes controversial) A person (see usage notes).
- (colloquial) Thing, item (term that can be used to refer to any entity)
- (informal, term of address) dude, Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- (colloquial) Anything seen to have character and personality, such as an animal or a toy.
- (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- (colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
- a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
- an informal term for a youth or man
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- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
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- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
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- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.