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adj
verb
- 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.
- 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 lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- 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.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- 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).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
verb
- To appropriate first.
- To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
- To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc).
- To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it).
- To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
noun
adj
adj
adj
noun
- premier rank.
- the third year of primary school, following after the junior and senior infant levels.
- One of two classes of city government in the U.S. state of Kentucky, in which cities elect a mayor and aldermen.
adj
- Of, or relating to the most luxurious and expensive class of accommodation on a train, ship, hotel, etc.
- Great, very enjoyable.
- Of, or relating to a first class match.
- Belonging to the best or top group in a system of classification.
- Of, or relating to a class of mail to be delivered before second class.
- Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
noun
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
adj
- Foremost in rank or importance.
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
- Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
- Exceptional in quality.
- Princely; royal.
- Having supreme, ultimate power.
- Exercising power of rule.
verb
noun
- A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
adj
- Primary; most important; first level in importance.
- Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun
- The chief administrator of a school.
- A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- The primary participant in a crime.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- A security principal.
- A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
adv
adj
noun
- A scoring shot for 6 runs.
- The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
- A 147 break; the highest possible break.
- A score of 180 with three darts.
- The highest limit.
- An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
adj
- Of prime importance.
- Of or relating to the head.
- Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
- used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
- Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
- Uppercase.
noun
- A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- The most important city in the field specified.
- An uppercase letter.
- The uppermost part of a column.
- Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- The chief or most important thing.
adj
- Most exalted; foremost.
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
- Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
- Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
- Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Luxurious; rich.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Above the batter's shoulders.
- Keen, enthused.
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- With tall waves.
adv
noun
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- A drug that gives such a high.
- A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- The highest card dealt or drawn.
- A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
adj
prep_phrase
noun
adj
noun
- The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
- The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
- The prime minister.
- The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
verb
verb
adj
- At the greatest extent; maximum.
- bad or unfortunate.
- Unlucky; unfortunate
- Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
- Bad
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- To pry; to peep slyly.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
- To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- To become sick or wan.
noun
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
noun
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- A penis.
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- A meathead.
conj
prep_phrase
adv
- to the full extent
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
- in spite of; notwithstanding
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
adj
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
- symmetrically arranged
- occurring at fixed intervals
- of the score in a contest
noun
adj
- divisible by two
- being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
verb
noun
- In general
- A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
- Filk music.
verb
- To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
- To perform filk music.
- To write a parody of (a song).
adj
adj
- Conclusive; decisive.
- Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Last; ultimate.
- Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
- A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
adv
noun
- The major part of something.
- A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- Dietary fibre.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- Any huge body or structure.
verb
- To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- To put or hold in bulk.
- To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- To grow in size; to swell or expand.
adj
noun
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- The best part of something.
- Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
- Semen.
adj
verb
- To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- To gather or form cream.
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
- To take off the best or choicest part of.
- To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
adv
- prominently forward
- before anything else
- the initial time
- before another in time, space, or importance
adj
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
noun
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the first element in a countable series
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
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