different between leader vs presence

English

Etymology

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English l?dere (“leader”), equivalent to lead +? -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?li?.d?(?)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?lid?/
  • Homophones: liter, litre
• Rhymes: -i?d?(?)
• Homophone: lieder

Noun

leader (plural leaders)

1. any person that leads or directs
   1. one who goes first

   2. one having authority to direct

      Synonyms: chief, chieftain, commander

   3. one who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles

      Leader of the House of Commons

      Senate Majority Leader

   4. a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

   5. (music) a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra

      Synonym: conductor

   6. (music, Britain) the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster
3. an animal that leads
   1. the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions

      Synonyms: alpha, pack leader

   2. an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
   3. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

      Antonym: wheeler

4. someone or something that leads or conducts

   (person that leads or conducts): Synonyms: guide, conductor

   1. (botany) a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant
   2. a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground
   3. (Britain) the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story
   4. (fishing) a section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line
   5. a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press
   6. (marketing) a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price
   7. (printing) a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face
   8. (printing, in the plural) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number
   9. (fishing) a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
   10. (mining) a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one
   11. (nautical) a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places
   12. A blank introductory portion of tape or film to assist with loading and playback.
   13. (engineering) the drive wheel in any kind of machinery

       Synonyms: driver, drive wheel

   14. (meteorology) the path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning

Quotations

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

Antonyms

• follower

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

References

• leader at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dealer, leared, red ale, redeal, relade, relead

French

Alternative forms

• leadeur

Etymology

Borrowed from English leader.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœ?/

Noun

leader m (plural leaders)

1. leader

Synonyms

• chef
• dirigeant

Descendants

• Turkish: lider

Further reading

• “leader” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dealer

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English leader.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.der/
• Hyphenation: lea?der

Noun

leader m or f (invariable)

1. leader (chief; one in front)

Anagrams

• lederà

Spanish

Noun

leader m or f (plural leaderes)

1. Alternative form of líder

English

Alternative forms

• præsence (archaic)

Etymology

Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?ns/
• Hyphenation: pres?ence

Noun

presence (countable and uncountable, plural presences)

1. The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

2. The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.

3. A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
4. A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.

5. Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.

6. A company's business activity in a particular market. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (archaic) An assembly of great persons.
8. The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
9. (audio) Synonym of room tone

Antonyms

• absence

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

presence (third-person singular simple present presences, present participle presencing, simple past and past participle presenced)

1. (philosophy, transitive, intransitive) To make or become present.
   • 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen, page 59,

     Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.

   • 1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59,

     Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.

   • 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, ?ISBN (paperback), page 118,

     From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.

Related terms

• present
• presentation
• omnipresence

Further reading

• presence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “presence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• presence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.