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The correct spelling is leads.
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noun
Say it like: Lee-ds
The correct spelling is leads. 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, fo… For example: "This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines."
Usage Examples
“This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.”
“They pumped him full of lead.”
“continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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).
- 2.A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- 3.A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- 4.Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- 5.Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
verb
- 1.To cover, fill, or affect with lead
- 2.To place leads between the lines of.
- 3.(heading) To guide or conduct.
- 4.To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- 5.(heading) To begin, to be ahead.
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