different between leader vs usher

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

Etymology

From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *usti?rius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ?sti?rius, from ?stium (“door”). Akin to ?s (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?sh?-?r, IPA^(key): /?????/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?a?.?(?)]
• (UK) IPA^(key): [???.?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [???.?]
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: ush?er

Noun

usher (plural ushers)

1. A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
2. A male escort at a wedding.
3. A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
4. (obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.12:

     [H]e defrayed the expence of his entrance, and left him in the particular care and inspection of the usher, who […] though obliged by the scandalous administration of fortune to act in the character of an inferior teacher, had by his sole capacity and application, brought the school to that degree of reputation which it never could have obtained from the talents of his superior.

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 33:

     He began to learn Latin with Mr. Hawkins, usher, or under-master of Lichfield school, ‘a man (said he) very skilful in his little way.’

5. (dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.

Synonyms

• (male attendant at a wedding): groomsman, bridesman

Derived terms

• usherette
• usheress

Translations

Verb

usher (third-person singular simple present ushers, present participle ushering, simple past and past participle ushered)

1. To guide people to their seats.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."

     Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
2. To accompany or escort (someone).
   • 1898, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 509

     Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered.

3. (figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
   • 1912, Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750, page 31

     Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.

4. (figuratively, transitive) to lead or guide somewhere

Derived terms

• usher in

Translations

Anagrams

• Huser, Rhues, Ruhes, Uhers, erhus, huers, shure