lead

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  1. transitive verb To show the way to by going in advance.
  2. transitive verb To guide or direct in a course: lead a horse by the halter. See Synonyms at guide.
  3. transitive verb To serve as a route for; take: The path led them to a cemetery.
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  • Considering what did happen to the Buffs, second place and "only" 56.5 points of the lead was a decent performance. —  Colorado Headline News
  • Fans in Cleveland won't have to bite their fingernails to a nub in the ninth inning in 2009 (though getting to the ninth inning with a lead will be another matter all together).
  • I don't know how I can watch an entire season of a show where the lead is an a$$ all the time (even if it does have its funny moments). —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • In Banana Republics with a controled press the lead is the same every day .. —  Latest Articles
  • "I think going into the fourth with the lead is always huge," Myers said. —  theithacajournal.com -
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan; see leit- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English led, from Old English lēad, probably of Celtic origin.

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  1. from Middle English leden (preterit ledde, ladde), from Anglo-Saxon lǣdan (preterit lǣdde, past participle lǣded, lǣd) (= Old Saxon lēdjan = OFries. leda = Dutch leiden = Middle Low German leiden, lēden = Old High German leitan, Middle High German G. leiten = Icelandic leidha = Swedish leda = Danish lede), lead; a factitive verb, connected with lād (= Icelandic leidh, etc.), a way, course, journey (see lode), from līdhan = Old High German līdan = Icelandic līdha, go, = Danish lide = Swedish lida, glide on, wear on: see lithe.
  2. = OFries. lede, lade = Middle Dutch leyde = Middle Low German leide, lēde = Old High German leita, leitī, Middle High German leite, German leite, lead; from the verb.
  3. from Middle English leed, from Anglo-Saxon leád, lead, = OFries. lad = Dutch lood, lead, = Middle Low German lōt. lead, a weight, lode, a plummet, = Middle High German lōt, German loth = Swedish Danish lod, a plummet, a lead, ball, bullet, a weight. The word occurs disguised in pilot, q. v. Another Teutonic word for ‘lead,’ the metal, is Old High German blīo, Middle High German blī, German blei, Middle Low German bli, blig = Icelandic bly¯ = Swedish Danish bly; the L. is plumbum (see plumb).
  4. from Middle English leden, leeden (= Dutch looden = Middle Low German loden = German lothen = Danish lodde = Swedish loda, sound with the lead; from the noun.
  5. Also leed; from Middle English leede; perhaps from Gael, luchd, a pot, kettle.
 

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