Lead
//lɛd//
Word Type
Noun
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Proper Noun
Adjective
The word "lead" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and adjective.
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Derived Terms
Adelaide Lead Canadian Lead Deep Lead Durham Lead Leadite Leadville Ledder Main Lead Scotchmans Lead Welsh lead Years of Lead acetate of lead all roads lead to Mecca all roads lead to Rome all roads lead to Sydney arm the lead axial lead backlead belead black lead blacklead blind leading the blind blue lead bury the lead cast the lead chromate of lead clubhouse lead coasting lead cold lead colead colead corroding lead decalead deep-sea lead delead dilead dog lead downlead eat lead eka-lead extension lead fairlead forecast lead time forelead forlead forthlead friendly lead get the lead out go down like a lead balloon go down like a lead zeppelin go over as well as a lead balloon go over like a lead balloon go over like a lead zeppelin green lead ore greylead hand lead heave the lead heptalead hexalead in the lead inlead isolead jump lead kettle lead lap in lead lay in lead lead a cat-and-dog life lead accumulator lead acetate lead angle lead arsenate lead astray lead balloon lead bronze lead bullion lead burning lead by example lead by the nose lead captive lead carbonate lead cell lead chamber lead chamber process lead character lead chloride lead climber lead climbing lead colic lead color lead colour lead crystal lead dichloride lead dinitrate lead dioxide lead distemper lead dog lead encephalopathy lead fiddle lead foot lead from the front lead glance lead glass lead guitar lead hopping lead hydride lead hydrogen arsenate lead in lead in one's pencil lead iodide lead line lead mill lead monoxide lead name lead nitrate lead nowhere lead ocher lead ochre lead off lead on lead out lead oxide lead paint lead paint stare lead palsy lead paralysis lead pencil lead peroxide lead plane lead plant lead poisoner lead poisoning lead pursuit lead ratio lead role lead sandwich lead screw lead selenide lead sheet lead shot lead singer lead single lead someone a dance lead someone down the garden path lead someone to the altar lead someone up the garden path lead suboxide lead sugar lead sulfate lead sulfide lead sulphate lead sulphide lead swinger lead tenant lead tetraethyl lead tetroxide lead the charge lead the line lead the way lead through lead to lead up lead up to lead vanadate lead vocalist lead vocals lead with one's chin lead wool lead-acid lead-acid battery lead-arming lead-ash lead-ashes lead-back lead-bath lead-blue lead-brown lead-burn lead-colored lead-coloured lead-comb lead-eater lead-flat lead-foot lead-footed lead-free lead-glaze lead-glazed lead-gray lead-grey lead-lag lead-light lead-like lead-man lead-marcasite lead-nail lead-out lead-paper lead-papered lead-pipe cinch lead-plaster lead-poisoning lead-pot lead-reeve lead-sinker lead-soap lead-spar lead-sugar lead-swing lead-swinger lead-swinging lead-tin lead-tree lead-vitriol lead-wash lead-water lead-work lead-works lead-wort leadable leadamalgam leaded leaden leader leadfield leadfoot leadfooted leadfree leadhand leadholder leading leadish leadless leadlight leadlike leadline leadman leadpipe leadplant leadproof leadscrew leadsman leadwood leadwork leadwort leadzyme low-background lead mislead mock lead multilead nonalead nonlead nose-led octalead offlead one thing led to another onlead organolead outlead overlead pencil lead pentalead pig lead pixie-led pixy-led pot lead power lead radiolead red lead red lead ore relead relead ringlead shift lead stop lead strike a lead sugar of lead swing the lead take the lead tea lead telluride of lead tetraethyl lead tetraethyllead tetralead thorium lead throw the lead traffic lead translead tri-lead underlead unlead unleaded uplead uplead uranium lead uranium-lead dating white lead white lead ore
Distinct From
Entails
Etymologically Related To
Inflected/Variant Forms
Context
Has Property
Broader Terms (Hypernyms)
Group 14 element act actor advance advantage angle be black lead boost bring about carbon group element cause conducting wire constraint counsel counseling counselling crystallogen direct direction discuss do encourage evidence execute exist further get give rise go graphite grounds guidance hash out have histrion induce jumper leadership leading leave locomote make make pass metal metallic element move news article news story newspaper article pass perform place play player plumbago position precede produce promote restraint result role player score section slip stimulate strip subdivision talk over tetragen tetrel thespian timing travel turn vantage wire
Type Of (IsA)
additive in paint advantage angle biochemically harmful substance bluish white lustrous metal commodity metal denser than air denser than aluminum denser than water evidence graphite heavy element heavy metal leadership metallic element mineral natural element naturally occurring tangible substance news article position score section strip turn unalloyed metal very dense material
Part Of
Receives Action
Related Terms
TEL anglesite aplomb cerussite galena lad laddie litharge plumb plumb dulcis plumb-joint plumbagin plumbago plumballophane plumbane plumbary plumbate plumbator plumbean plumbeous plumber plumbian plumbic plumbicon plumbiferous plumbine plumbing plumbism plumbisolvency plumbisolvent plumbite plumbless plumbly plumbo plumbous plumby plummet
Related Terms
action advance ahead alloy ammunition angle anglesite anti anti radiation aplomb atomic attached authority barbershop quartet base batteries be first begin being being first black bluish bright bring brush bullet bullet material bullets business cerussite channel chief circuit color colour command compound conduct consecutive core counsel course cover covering crank cylinder dense dense metal depth diameter direct directing direction ductile dynamo easily eat electromotive force element element used engine excess feed field fill filling first fishing fishing sinker follow foremost form front front of fusible galena game gasoline governing graphite gray gray metal grey grey colour guide guiding guiding action heavy heavy element heavy metal ice in advance in batteries in bullets in front in paint in pencil in pencils induce inelastic influence ingredient ink inside inside pencil inside pencils insides instruct instruction it is knots lead climb lead in leading leash lede litharge little lode main malleable mass material melody metal metallic metallic element military mineral number open other paint part path pencil pencil core pencil fill pencil filling pencil graphite pencil ink pencil insides pencil material pencil part pencil tip pencil writing pencils phase pipe pipes pitch plate pliable plumb plumb dulcis plumb joint plumbagin plumbago plumballophane plumbane plumbary plumbate plumbator plumbean plumbeous plumber plumber metal plumbers plumbers pipes plumbian plumbic plumbicon plumbiferous plumbine plumbing plumbing material plumbism plumbisolvency plumbisolvent plumbite plumbless plumbly plumbous plumbum plumby plummet poison poison eat poisoning poisonous poisonous metal pole precede precedence principal produce provide provide direction race radiation radioactive right angle role roof roofs scientific scientific element score sea separate shaft sheet sheets shielding shielding radioactive shot sinker soft soft metal solder sounding star star role starts steel strip superman symmetrical target tarnished teaser technology tel tenacity tenor terne thin though tip toxic toxic metal type type metal used used pencil velocity watches water weight writing
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