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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English led, leed, from Old English l?ad (“lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laud (“lead”), borrowed from Proto-Celtic *?loudom, 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”), German Lot (“solder, plummet, sounding line”), Swedish lod (“lead”), Icelandic lóð (“a plumb, weight”), Irish luaidhe (“lead”) Latin plumbum (“lead”). Doublet of loth. More at flow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?d, IPA^(key): /l?d/
• Homophone: led

Noun

lead (countable and uncountable, plural leads)

1. (uncountable) 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, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
2. (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
3. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
4. (uncountable, typography) 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.
6. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
7. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
8. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.

Derived terms

Translations

See lead/translations § Etymology 1.

Verb

lead (third-person singular simple present leads, present participle leading, simple past and past participle leaded)

1. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead

2. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.

Usage notes

Note carefully these three senses are verbs derived from the noun referring to the metallic element, and are unrelated to the heteronym defined below under #Etymology 2.

Translations

See lead/translations § Etymology 1.

See also

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Lead”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “lead”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• lead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English leden, from Old English l?dan (“to lead”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijan, from Proto-Germanic *laidijan? (“to cause one to go, lead”), causative of Proto-Germanic *l?þan? (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *leit-, *leith- (“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”). Related to Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?d, IPA^(key): /li?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lid/
• Homophones: leed, lede

Verb

lead (third-person singular simple present leads, present participle leading, simple past and past participle led)

2. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
   1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.

      • If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch.

      • They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill.
   2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.

      • The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way.

      • He leadeth me beside the still waters.
   3. (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct

   4. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
      • 1664, Robert South, A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon

        Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places.

   5. To guide or conduct oneself 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.

      • 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H, XXXIII

        Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse / A life that leads melodious days.

      • 1849-50, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 61

        You remember […] the life he used to lead his wife and daughter.

3. (intransitive) 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 the transitive verb.
4. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
   1. (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
      • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso

        As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.

      • c. 1819, Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem

        And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
   2. (intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
   3. (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
   4. (heading, sports)
      1. (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with

      2. (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
      3. (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
      4. (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.

      5. (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
      6. (transitive, climbing) Lead climb.
5. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
   • 1649, King Charles I of England, Eikon Basilike

     He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions.

   • Silly women, laden with sins, led away by divers lusts.
6. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
   • ca. 1590, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, V-ii

     The mountain-foot that leads towards Mantua.
7. To produce (with to).
8. Misspelling of led.
9. (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).

Derived terms

Related terms

• lad, laddie

Translations

See lead/translations § Etymology 2.

Noun

lead (countable and uncountable, plural leads)

1. (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, […] I am sure I did my country important service.

2. (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
3. (Britain, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
4. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.

5. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

6. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
7. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
8. (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.

   John is the development lead on this software product.

9. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
10. (countable, mining) A lode.
11. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
12. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
13. In a 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.
    • Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
14. Charging lead. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
15. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
16. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
17. Hypothesis that has not been pursued

18. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.

19. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.

20. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
21. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
22. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
23. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
24. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
25. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
26. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
27. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
28. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
29. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
30. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.

Usage notes

Note that these noun (attributive) uses are all derived from the verb, not the chemical element in #Etymology 1.

Derived terms

Translations

See lead/translations § Etymology 2.

Adjective

lead (not comparable)

1. (not comparable) Foremost.

   Synonyms: first, front, head, leader, leading

2. (music) main, principal
   • 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera:

     Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-prime minister, has missed a verdict in a negligence trial that could have seen her jailed, prompting the Supreme Court to say it will issue an arrest warrant fearing she is a flight risk, according to the lead judge in the case.

Etymology 3

Verb

lead

1. Misspelling of led.

References

• lead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, deal, lade

Hungarian

Etymology

le- +? ad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l??d]
• Hyphenation: le?ad
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

lead

1. (transitive) to pass down, hand down, turn in, drop off
2. (transitive) to lose weight, usually as a result of some kind of training or exercise

Conjugation

Derived terms

• leadás

(Expressions):

• leadja a voksát

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ???d/

Noun

l?ad n

1. lead

Declension

Derived terms

• l?eden

Descendants

• Middle English: led, lede, lead, leyd, leod, leyt
  • English: lead
  • Scots: leid, lede
  • Yola: leed

Polish

Etymology

From English lead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?it/

Noun

lead m inan

1. (newspapers, journalism) lead paragraph, teaser, lead-in (start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how)

Declension

Further reading

• lead in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lead in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• ordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ored-, *oreð- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ?rdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/, [?????]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /???d?(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Hyphenation: or?der

Noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

2. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
   • 1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page,

     His attempt I shall also give in its order.
3. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

4. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

5. (countable) A command.
6. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.

8. (countable) An association of knights.

9. Any group of people with common interests.
10. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
11. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

12. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

      They are in equal order to their several ends.

    • 1726, George Granville, The British Enchanters

      Various orders various ensigns bear.

    • […] which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.

13. (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

14. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
15. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

17. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
    • 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,

      In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n ? 1)/x(x ? 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x ? l)m.

    • 2000, Michael Aschbacher, Finite Group Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, page 260,

      For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.

19. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ? G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gⁿ = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
    • 1997, Frank Celler, C. R. Leedham-Green, Calculating the Order of an Invertible Matrix, Larry Finkelstein, William M. Kantor (editors), Groups and Computation II, American Mathematical Society, page 55,

      The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element ${\displaystyle A}$ of ${\displaystyle G={\mathit {GL}}(d,q)}$ on average using ${\displaystyle O(d^{3}{\mathsf {log}}\ q)}$ field operations, assuming that ${\displaystyle q^{i}-1}$ has been factorised for ${\displaystyle i\leq d}$.

    • 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,

      If ${\displaystyle \Delta }$ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of ${\displaystyle \Delta }$. The order of an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer ${\displaystyle n}$ such that ${\displaystyle a^{n}=1_{\Delta }}$. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.

      Theorem 1.10 Let ${\displaystyle \Delta }$ be a finite group.

      (i) The order of an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ divides the order ${\displaystyle |\Delta |}$ of the group.

      (ii) If a prime number ${\displaystyle p}$ divides ${\displaystyle |\Delta |}$, then there exists an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ of order ${\displaystyle p}$.

    • 2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180,

      Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.

20. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
21. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
22. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
23. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

24. (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
    • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 233:

      I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.

Quotations

• 1611, Bible, King James Version, Luke, 1:i:

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […] .

• 1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, chapter 8:

  Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): ordo

Antonyms

• chaos

Hypernyms

• denomination

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of order theory

Further reading

• order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Order (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cauchy's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lagrange's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (taxonomy): Taxonomic rank#Ranks in botany on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

1. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.

2. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.

3. (transitive) To issue a command to.

4. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

   • persons presented to be ordered deacons

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (arrange into some sort of order): sort, rank
• (issue a command): command

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• ordain
• orderly
• ordinal
• ordinary

Anagrams

• Doerr, Roder, derro, ordre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.d?r/
• Hyphenation: or?der

Noun

order m or f or n (plural orders)

1. order (command)
2. order (request for product or service)

Derived terms

• dagorder
• legerorder
• orderbrief
• postorder

German

Verb

order

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch order, from from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”). Doublet of orde and ordo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r.d?r]
• Hyphenation: or?dêr

Noun

ordêr (first-person possessive orderku, second-person possessive ordermu, third-person possessive ordernya)

1. order,
   1. a command.
   2. a request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

      Synonym: pesanan

Derived terms

Further reading

• “order” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

From Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.d?r/

Noun

order m inan (diminutive orderek, augmentative orderzysko)

1. order (decoration awarded by government or other authority)

   Synonym: odznaczenie

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) orderowa?, uorderowa?, wyorderowa?
• (nouns) orderowiec, orderomania
• (adjective) orderowy

Related terms

• (noun) ordereczek

Further reading

• order in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• order in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd?r/

Noun

order c

1. an order; a command
2. an order; a request for some product or service

Declension

Hyponyms

See also

• orden

Anagrams

• roder