Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 17
Lay (v. i.) (Naut.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
Lay (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
To lay about, or To lay about one, To strike vigorously in all directions. -- J. H. Newman.
To lay at, To strike or strike at. -- Spenser.
To lay for, To prepare to capture or assault; to lay wait for. [Colloq.] -- Bp Hall.
To lay in for, To make overtures for; to engage or secure the possession of. [Obs.] "I have laid in for these." -- Dryden.
To lay on, To strike; to beat; to attack. -- Shak.
To lay out, To purpose; to plan; as, he lays out to make a journey.
Lay (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. -- Addison.
A viol should have a lay of wire strings below. -- Bacon.
Note: The lay of a rope is right-handed or left-handed according to the hemp or strands are laid up. See Lay, v. t., 16. The lay of land is its topographical situation, esp. its slope and its surface features.
Lay (n.) A wager. "My fortunes against any lay worth naming."
Lay (n.) A job, price, or profit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Lay (n.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay. [U. S.]
Lay (n.) (Textile Manuf.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
Lay (n.) (Textile Manuf.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
Lay (n.) A plan; a scheme. [Slang] -- Dickens.
Lay figure, () A jointed model of the human body that may be put in any attitude; -- used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc.
Lay figure, () A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition.
Lay race, () That part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in weaving; -- called also shuttle race.
The lay of the land, The general situation or state of affairs.
To get the lay of the land, To learn the general situation or state of affairs, especially in preparation for action.
Compare: Batten
Batten () The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
Blanchard lathe, A lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like.
Drill lathe, or Speed lathe, A small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe.
Engine lathe, A turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
Foot lathe, A lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot.
Geometric lathe. See under Geometric.
Hand lathe, A lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool.
Slide lathe, An engine lathe.
Throw lathe, A small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.
Lay (a.) Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry" [syn: laic, lay, secular].
Lay (a.) Not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease."
Lay (n.) A narrative song with a recurrent refrain [syn: ballad, lay].
Lay (n.) A narrative poem of popular origin [syn: ballad, lay].
Lay (v.) Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay].
Lay (v.) Put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" [syn: lay, put down, repose].
Lay (v.) Prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan."
Lay (v.) Lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay."
Lay (v.) Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone."
Lay, () English law. That which relates to persons or things not ecclesiastical. In the United States the people are not, by law, divided, as in England, into ecclesiastical and lay.
The law makes no distinction between them.
Layer (n.) One who, or that which, lays.
Layer (n.) [Prob. a corruption of lair.] That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
Layer (n.) An artificial oyster bed.
Layer (n.) Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: layer, bed].
Layer (n.) A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
Layer (n.) An abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" [syn: level, layer, stratum].
Layer (n.) A hen that lays eggs.
Layer (n.) Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
Layer (v.) Make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
Protocol layer
Layer, ()
The software and/ or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level.
The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols.
The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers.
This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems.
Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
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Layering (n.) A propagating by layers. -- Gardner.
Laying (n.) The act of one who, or that which, lays.
Laying (n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
Laying (n.) The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
Laying (n.) The production of eggs (especially in birds) [syn: laying, egg laying].
Layland (n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Laymen (n. pl. ) of Layman.
Layman (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession. -- Dryden.
Layman (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above). -- Dryden
Layman (n.) Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend].
Layman, () eccl. law. One who is not an ecclesiastic nor a clergyman.
Layner (n.) A whiplash. [Obs.]
Layship (n.) The condition of being a layman. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Laystall (n.) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. -- Bacon.
Laystall (n.) A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]
Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. -- Chaucer.
Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. -- Spenser.
Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. Lazaret
Lazar (n.) A person afflicted with leprosy [syn: leper, lazar].
Lazaret (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto.
Lazaretto (n.) A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
Lazaretto (n.) (Naut.) Note: (Pronounced by seamen l[a^]z`[.a]*r[=e]t") A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom.
Lazaret (n.) Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) [syn: lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse].
LAZARET or LAZARETTO. () A place selected by public authority, where vessels coming from infected or unhealthy countries are required to perform quarantine. Vide Health.
Lazarist (n.) Alt. of Lazarite
Lazarite
(n.) (R.
C. Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the
Lazarlike (a.) Alt. of Lazarly
Lazarly (a.) Full of sores; leprous. -- Shak. -- Bp. Hall.
Lazaroni (n. pl.) See Lazzaroni.
Lazzaroni (n. pl.) [It. lazzarone, pl. lazzaroni.] The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.].
Lazarwort (n.) (Bot.) Laserwort.
Lazed (imp. & p. p.) of Laze.
Lazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laze.
Laze (v. i.) To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] -- Middleton.
Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.]
Laze (v.) Be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" [syn: idle, laze, slug, stagnate] [ant: work].
Lazily (adv.) In a lazy manner. -- Locke.
Lazily (adv.) In a slow and lazy manner; "I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air."
Lazily (adv.) In an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people" [syn: idly, lazily].
Laziness (n.) The state or quality of being lazy.
Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. -- Franklin.
Laziness (n.) Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: indolence, laziness].
Laziness (n.) Relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax."
Laziness (n.) Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: sloth, laziness, acedia].
Lazy evaluation
Laziness, ()
An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression.
Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-{strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed.
According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris.
Opposite: eager evaluation.
A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
Full laziness is a program transformation which aims to optimise lazy evaluation by ensuring that all subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once.
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LAZINESS, (n.) Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Lazuli (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Lazuli (n.) An azure blue semiprecious stone [syn: lapis lazuli, lazuli].
Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Lazulite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.
Lazy (a.) 懶散的，怠惰的；使人倦怠的；懶洋洋的；緩慢的，慢吞吞的 Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. -- Bacon.
Lazy (a.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." -- Shak.
Lazy (a.) Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- B. Jonson.
Lazy tongs, 【機械工程】（用以鉗取遠處東西的）惰鉗，伸縮鉗 A system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.
Syn: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.
Lazy (a.) Moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace".
Lazy (a.) Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy].
Compare: Disinclined
Disinclined (a.) [Predicative, with infinitive] 不願的；不傾向的；disincline的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Unwilling; reluctant.
‘The rural community was disinclined to abandon the old ways.’
Lazyback (n.) A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage. [Colloq.]
Lazybones (n.) A lazy person. [Colloq.]
Lazzaroni
(n. pl.)
The homeless idlers of
Lea (n.) (Textile Manuf.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
Lea (n.) (Textile Manuf.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Lea (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. "Plow-torn leas." -- Shak.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. -- Gray.
Compare: Mausoleum
Mausoleum (n.; pl. E. Mausoleums, L. -lea.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Lea (n.) A unit of length of thread or yarn.
Lea (n.) A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley].
LEA, () Law Enforcement Agency (ETSI, ETSI 201 671)
Lea -- U.S. County in New Mexico
Population (2000): 55511
Housing Units (2000): 23405
Land area (2000): 4392.956954 sq. miles (11377.705796 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.061833 sq. miles (2.750135 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4394.018787 sq. miles (11380.455931 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.728441 N, 103.327764 W
Headwords:
Lea
Lea, NM
Lea County
Lea County, NM
Leach (n.) (Naut.) See 3d Leech.
Leach (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
Leach tub, A wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
Leached (imp. & p. p.) of Leach.
Leaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leach.
Leach (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
Leach (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
Leach (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician. [Obs.]
Leech (n.) (Naut.) The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.]
Leech line, A line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. -- Totten.
Leech rope, That part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.
Leech (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
[Written also leach.] [Archaic] -- Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. -- Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).
Leech (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
Note: In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles. By the motion of these jaws a stellate incision is made in the skin, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorged, and then drops off. The stomach has large pouches on each side to hold the blood. The common large bloodsucking leech of America ({Macrobdella decora) is dark olive above, and red below, with black spots. Many kinds of leeches are parasitic on fishes; others feed upon worms and mollusks, and have no jaws for drawing blood. See Bdelloidea. Hirudinea, and Clepsine.
Leech (n.) (Surg.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
Horse leech, A less powerful European leech ({H[ae]mopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.
Leach (n.) The process of leaching [syn: leach, leaching].
Leach (v.) Cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate.
Leach (v.) Permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: leach, percolate].
Leach (v.) Remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach, strip].
Leach, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 220
Housing Units (2000): 94
Land area (2000): 6.229575 sq. miles (16.134524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.229575 sq. miles (16.134524 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41900
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.197845 N, 94.913359 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74364
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Leach, OK
Leach
Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
Lead (n.) (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
Lead (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as:
Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
Lead (n.) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
Lead (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. -- Bacon
Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
Black lead, Graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]
Coasting lead, A sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.
Deep-sea lead, The heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Hand lead, A small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
Krems lead, Kremnitz lead [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also Krems white, or Kremnitz white, and Vienna white.
Lead arming, Tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead.
See To arm the lead (below).
Lead
colic. See under
Colic.
Lead color, A deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.
Lead
glance. (Min.) Same
as Galena.
Lead line (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums
produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning.
Lead line (b) (Naut.) A sounding line.
Lead mill, A leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
Lead ocher (Min.), A massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead.
Same as Massicot.
Lead pencil, A pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).
Lead plant (Bot.), A low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha ({Amorpha canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. -- Gray.
Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leuc[ae]na glauca; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage.
Lead tree. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate.
Mock lead, A miner's term for blende.
Red lead, A scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.
Red lead ore (Min.), Crocoite.
Sugar of lead, Acetate of lead.
To arm the lead, To fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
To cast the lead, or To heave the lead, To cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
White lead, Hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
Leaded (imp. & p. p.) of Lead.
Leading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead.
Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
Lead (v. t.) (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
Led (imp. & p. p.) of Lead.
Leading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead.
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. -- Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.)
They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. -- Luke iv. 29.
In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. -- Milton.
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. -- Ex. xiii. 21.
He leadeth me beside the still waters. -- Ps. xxiii. 2.
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.
Content, though blind, had I no better guide. -- Milton.
Lead (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. -- South.
Lead (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. -- Fairfax.
And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. -- Leigh Hunt.
Lead (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. -- Eikon Basilike.
Silly women, laden with sins, led away by divers lusts. -- 2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self 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).
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. -- 1 Tim. ii. 2.
Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. -- Tennyson.
You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. -- Dickens.
Lead (v. t.) (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
To lead astray, To guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude.
To lead captive, To carry or bring into captivity.
To lead the way, To show the way by going in front; to act as guide. -- Goldsmith.
Lead (v. i.) 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 lead, v. t.
Lead (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua. -- Shak.
To lead off or To lead out, To go first; to begin; as, Mickey Mantle led off in the fifth inning of the game.
Lead (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, . . . I am sure I did my country important service. -- Burke.
Lead (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
Lead (n.) (Cards & Dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
Lead (n.) An open way in an ice field. -- Kane.
Lead (n.) (Mining) A lode.
Lead (n.) (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end.
Lead (n.) (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.
Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
Lead (n.) (Civil Engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
Lead (n.) (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. -- Saunier.
Lead (n.) (Music.) (a) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
Lead (n.) (Music.) (b) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
Lead (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full
Lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called Negative lead.
Lead (n.) (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
Lead (n.) (Mach.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn.
Lead (n.) (Elec.) (a) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
Lead (n.) (Elec.) (b) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
Lead (n.) (Theat.) A role for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a role.
Lead (n.) The first story in a newspaper or broadcast news program.
Lead (n.) An electrical conductor, typically as an insulated wire or cable, connecting an electrical device to another device or to a power source, such as a conductor conveying electricity from a dynamo.
Lead (n.) (Baseball) The distance a runner on base advances from one base toward the next before the pitch; as, the long lead he usually takes tends to distract the pitchers.
Lead angle (Steam Engine), The angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam.
Lead screw (Mach.), The main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.
Lead (n.) An advantage held by a competitor in a race; "he took the lead at the last turn."
Lead (n.) A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey; "the children were playing with lead soldiers" [syn: lead, Pb, atomic number 82].
Lead (n.) Evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail].
Lead (n.) A position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'); "he takes the lead in any group"; "we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"; "they didn't follow our lead."
Lead (n.) The angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile).
Lead (n.) The introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter" [syn: lead, lead-in, lede].
Lead (n.) (Sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning [ant: deficit].
Lead (n.) An actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead].
Lead (n.) (Baseball) The position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; "he took a long lead off first."
Lead (n.) An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint].
Lead (n.) A news story of major importance [syn: lead, lead story].
Lead (n.) The timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine [syn: spark advance, lead].
Lead (n.) Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal [syn: leash, tether, lead].
Lead (n.) Thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing [syn: lead, leading].
Lead (n.) Mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil [syn: lead, pencil lead].
Lead (n.) A jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads" [syn: jumper cable, jumper lead, lead, booster cable].
Lead (n.) The playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; "the lead was in the dummy."
Lead (v.) Take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: lead, take, direct, conduct, guide].
Lead (v.) Have as a result or residue; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin" [syn: leave, result, lead].
Lead (v.) Tend to or result in; "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests."
Lead (v.) Travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" [syn: lead, head].
Lead (v.) Cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks."
Lead (v.) Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service uns all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend].
Lead (v.) Be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head, lead].
Lead (v.) Be ahead of others; be the first; "she topped her class every year" [syn: lead, top].
Lead (v.) Be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" [syn: contribute, lead, conduce].
Lead (v.) Lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" [syn: conduct, lead, direct].
Lead (v.) Lead, extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go, lead].
Lead (v.) Move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: precede, lead] [ant: follow].
Lead (v.) Cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run, lead].
Lead (v.) Preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair, lead].
Lead
Symbol: Pb
Atomic number: 82
Atomic weight: 207.19
Heavy dull grey ductile metallic element, belongs to group 14. Used in building construction, lead-plate accumulators, bullets and shot, and is part of solder, pewter, bearing metals, type metals and fusible alloys.
LEAD, (n.) A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a sift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point. Thy judgment, when allowed By the chirurgeon, settles the debate.
O useful metal! -- were it not for thee We'd grapple one another's ears alway: But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay." And when the quick have run away like pellets Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets.
Lead, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 3027
Housing Units (2000): 1617
Land area (2000): 1.989438 sq. miles (5.152620 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.989438 sq. miles (5.152620 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36220
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.350967 N, 103.765784 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Leaded (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
Leaded (a.) (Print.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.
Leaded (a.) (Of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead; "leaded windowpanes"
Leaded (a.) Treated or mixed with lead; "leaded gasoline"; "leaded zinc" [ant: leadless, unleaded].
Leaded (a.) Having thin strips of lead between the lines of type.
Leaden (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
Leaden (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.
Leaden (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." -- Shak.
Leaden (a.) Darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden].
Leaden (a.) Made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: leaden, weighted].
Leaden (a.) Made of lead; "a leaden weight."
Leaden (a.) (Of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn: leaden, plodding].
Leaden (a.) Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy, leaden].
Leader (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:
Leader (n.) One who goes first.
Leader (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
Leader (n.) (Mus.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.