Lead

What “Lead” means

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.
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.

Verb

1. To guide or conduct.
2. To guide or conduct.
3. To guide or conduct.
4. To guide or conduct.
5. To guide or conduct.

Noun

1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
2. Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
3. An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
4. The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
5. The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

Where the word comes from

From Middle English led, leed, from Old English lēad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots leid, lede (“lead”), North Frisian lud, luad (“lead”), West Frisian lead (“lead”), Dutch lood (“lead”), Low German Lod (“solder, plummet”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“solder, plummet”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”), Finnish luoti (“bullet”). Doublet of loth. More at flow. * (graphite in a pencil): Graphite was once believed to be a form of lead; see black lead and plumbago.

From Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *līþaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to leave, die”). Cognate with West Frisian liede (“to lead”), Dutch leiden (“to lead”), German leiten (“to lead”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lede (“to lead”), Norwegian Nynorsk leia (“to lead”), Swedish leda (“to lead”), Faroese and Icelandic leiða (“to lead”). Related to Old English līþan (“to go, travel”).

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Industries where “Lead” fits

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• Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining