different between headline vs lede

English

Etymology

From head +? line.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?d.la?n/
• Rhymes: -?dla?n

Noun

headline (plural headlines)

1. (journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.

   Synonym: hed
2. (printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
3. (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.

   Synonym: headliner

4. (nautical) A headrope.

Coordinate terms

• (heading): byline, dateline

Derived terms

• Betteridge's law of headlines
• running headline

Translations

See also

• Glossary of journalism: Article components

Verb

headline (third-person singular simple present headlines, present participle headlining, simple past and past participle headlined)

1. To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
2. (transitive, intransitive, entertainment) To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.

Derived terms

• headliner

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?d, IPA^(key): /li?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English lede, leode, from Old English l?ode ("people, men"; plural of l?od (“person, man”)), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?léwd?is (“man, people”). Cognate with Scots lede (“people”), West Frisian lie (“people”), Dutch lieden (“people”), lui(den) (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Norwegian lyd (“people”). More at leod.

Alternative forms

• leed, leod, leode, ledd, leude, lued, lud, lude, led
• leid, leyd, leed (Scotland)

Noun

lede (plural lede)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, in the singular) A man; person.
2. (chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland, collective plural) Men; people, folk.
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     If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.

3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, in the singular) A people or nation.
4. (chiefly Britain dialectal, in the plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions.

Derived terms

• leden
• ledish

Etymology 2

Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of lead, intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame. Compare hed (“headline”) and dek (“subhead”).

Alternative forms

• lead

Noun

lede (plural ledes)

1. (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.

Usage notes

Usage seems mostly confined to the U.S. Originally only journalistic usage that is now so common in general US English that it is no longer labeled as jargon by major US dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster and American Heritage. Noted as “sometimes spelled” in 1959, “often spelled” in 1969, and asserted in the 1979 reprint of a 1974 book (see Citations page). In 1990, William Safire was still able to say that lede was jargon not listed in regular dictionaries.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:lede.

Derived terms

See also

• Glossary of journalism: Article components

References

• William Safire (1990), "On Language; (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)", New York Times, November 18, 1990, Nytimes.com
• WOTD (2000), "The Maven's Word of the Day: lede", November 28, 2000, www.randomhouse.com
• Notes:

Anagrams

• LEED, deel, dele, leed

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??.d?/

Noun

lede

1. plural of lid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?d?]

Noun

lede

1. vocative singular of led

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?ð?/, [?leðð?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leiða (“to lead”), from Proto-Germanic *laidijan? (“to lead”), cognate with English lead, German leiten. It is a causative of the verb *l?þan? (“to go, pass”) (Template:non).

Verb

lede (past tense ledede or ledte, past participle ledet or ledt)

1. to manage, run
2. to head, direct
3. to lead, guide
4. to conduct

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leita (“to seek, search”), from Proto-Germanic *wlait?n?, cognate with Old English wl?tian (“to look upon”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (wlait?n, “to look around”).

Verb

lede (past tense ledte, past participle ledt)

1. to look, search for

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse leiða, derived from the adjective Old Norse leiðr (Danish led (“disgusting”)).

Noun

lede c (singular definite leden, not used in plural form)

1. disgust, distaste, loathing

Inflection

Antonyms

• lyst

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

lede

1. definite of led
2. plural of led

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d?

Verb

lede

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of lijden

Anagrams

• deel, dele, edel, leed

Galician

Verb

lede

1. second-person plural imperative of ler

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

lede

1. third-person singular indicative present of ledere

Middle Dutch

Noun

lêde

1. dative singular of lêet

Middle English

Noun

lede (plural ledes)

1. Alternative form of leod

Verb

lede

1. lead

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse leiða, and Danish lede

Verb

lede (imperative led, present tense leder, passive ledes, simple past and past participle leda or ledet, present participle ledende)

1. to lead
2. to guide

Derived terms

• avlede
• innlede
• ledelse
• ledning

See also

• leie (Nynorsk)

References

• “lede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

lede

1. Second-person plural (vós) affirmative imperative of ler

Swedish

Etymology

From the nominal use (masculine inflection) of adjective led (“evil”), in the more original synonym den lede frestaren (“the evil tempter”)

Adjective

lede

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of led.

Noun

lede c

1. the evil one, the loathsome or disgusting one; the devil, Satan