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- (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
- (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
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- (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
- A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
- A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
- someone who educates young people
verb
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- induce or persuade
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- (chess) To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- attract the attention of
- bestow a quality on
- bring into a different state
- advance or set forth in court
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- be accompanied by
- be sold for a certain price
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
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- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something learned or to be learned.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
noun
- a doctrine that is taught
- rule of personal conduct
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
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- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- learn by repetition
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
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- The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
- The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
- The profession of teaching.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the principles and methods of instruction
- the profession of a teacher
verb
- To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.
- To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
- raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
adj
- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
verb
- teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
- let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
- fill, as with a certain quality
- undergo the process of infusion
- (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
- (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
- (transitive) To instill as a quality.
- (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
- (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
- (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
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- An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
- A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
- education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
verb
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
- Alternative spelling of re-solve.
- (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
- (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- cause to go into a solution
- understand the meaning of
- reach a decision
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- find the solution
- make clearly visible
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- educate in or as if in a school
- swim in or form a large group of fish
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
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- the process of being formally educated at a school
- a large group of fish
- an educational institution's faculty and students
- an educational institution
- a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
- a building where young people receive education
- the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- (India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- A multitude.
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
verb
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (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).
- (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.
- 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
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- (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.
- 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
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- 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
noun
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- a doctrine that is taught
- rule of personal conduct
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
- The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
- The profession of teaching.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the principles and methods of instruction
- the profession of a teacher
noun
- An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
- A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
- education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
- (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
verb
verb
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verb
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- (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
- A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
- A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
- someone who educates young people
verb
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- induce or persuade
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- (chess) To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- attract the attention of
- bestow a quality on
- bring into a different state
- advance or set forth in court
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- be accompanied by
- be sold for a certain price
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
intj
verb
noun
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- Something learned or to be learned.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- a unit of instruction
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
verb
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- learn by repetition
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
noun
verb
- To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.
- To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
- raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
verb
- teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
- let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
- fill, as with a certain quality
- undergo the process of infusion
- (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
- (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
- (transitive) To instill as a quality.
- (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
- (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
- (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
verb
verb
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
- Alternative spelling of re-solve.
- (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
- (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
- To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
- (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
- (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
- (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
- (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- cause to go into a solution
- understand the meaning of
- reach a decision
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- find the solution
- make clearly visible
noun
verb
- educate in or as if in a school
- swim in or form a large group of fish
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- (intransitive, of fish) To form into, or travel in, a school.
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one’s expression.
noun
- the process of being formally educated at a school
- a large group of fish
- an educational institution's faculty and students
- an educational institution
- a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
- a building where young people receive education
- the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- (India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- A multitude.
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
verb
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (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).
- (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.
- 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
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- (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.
- 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
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- 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
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- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.