Definition of leads

"leads" in the noun sense

1. lead

an advantage held by a competitor in a race

"he took the lead at the last turn"

2. lead, Pb, atomic number 82

a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey

"the children were playing with lead soldiers"

3. lead, track, trail

evidence pointing to a possible solution

"the police are following a promising lead"

"the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

4. lead

a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead'

"he takes the lead in any group"

"we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"

"they didn't follow our lead"

5. lead

the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)

6. lead, lead-in, lede

the introductory section of a story

"it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter"

7. lead

sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning

8. star, principal, lead

an actor who plays a principal role

9. lead

baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base

"he took a long lead off first"

10. tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint

an indication of potential opportunity

"he got a tip on the stock market"

"a good lead for a job"

11. lead, lead story

a news story of major importance

12. spark advance, lead

the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine

13. leash, tether, lead

restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

14. lead, leading

thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

15. lead, pencil lead

mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness the marking substance in a pencil

16. jumper cable, jumper lead, lead, booster cable

a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire

"it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"

17. lead

the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge

"the lead was in the dummy"

"leads" in the verb sense

1. lead, take, direct, conduct, guide

take somebody somewhere

"We lead him to our chief"

"can you take me to the main entrance?"

"He conducted us to the palace"

2. leave, result, lead

produce as a result or residue

"The water left a mark on the silk dress"

"Her blood left a stain on the napkin"

3. lead

tend to or result in

"This remark lead to further arguments among the guests"

4. lead, head

travel in front of go in advance of others

"The procession was headed by John"

5. lead

cause to undertake a certain action

"Her greed led her to forge the checks"

6. run, go, pass, lead, extend

stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"

"His knowledge doesn't go very far"

"My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"

"The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

7. head, lead

be in charge of

"Who is heading this project?"

8. lead, top

be ahead of others be the first

"she topped her class every year"

9. contribute, lead, conduce

be conducive to

"The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"

10. conduct, lead, direct

lead, as in the performance of a composition Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"

"conduct an orchestra

11. go, lead

lead, extend, or afford access

"This door goes to the basement"

"The road runs South"

12. precede, lead

move ahead (of others) in time or space

13. run, lead

cause something to pass or lead somewhere

"Run the wire behind the cabinet"

14. moderate, chair, lead

preside over

"John moderated the discussion"

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Quotations for leads

The love of country leads me. [ Motto ]

As the world leads we follow. [ Seneca ]

No flowery road leads to glory. [ La Fontaine ]

The thread leads to the bottom. [ Proverb ]

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still. [ Bishop Heber ]

Precipitate haste leads to injustice. [ Euripides ]

Christ leads me through no darker rooms
Than He went through before. [ Richard Baxter ]

Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death. [ Seneca ]

Adversity oftentimes leads to prosperity. [ Proverb ]

The path of glory leads but to the grave. [ Gray ]

The path of sorrow, and that path alone.
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. [ Cowper ]

The devious paths where wanton fancy leads. [ Rowe ]

The holy calm that leads to heavenly musing. [ Rogers ]

Venus always saves the lover whom she leads. [ Delatouche ]

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
He lives by rule who lives himself to please. [ Crabbe ]

Him only pleasure leads and peace attends,
Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends,
Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends. [ Wordsworth ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no royal path which leads to geometry. [ Euclid ]

Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. [ Milton ]

Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. [ Proverb ]

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it. [ Dryden ]

Fame points the course, and glory leads the way. [ Pye ]

Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. [ Seneca, from Cleanthes ]

His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]

He's a wise man that leads passion by the bridle. [ Proverb ]

Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]

It was thus by the glare of false science betrayed,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. [ Beattie ]

Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling. [ Proverb ]

Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe. [ Beattie ]

Gratitude is a cross-road that leads quickly to love. [ T. Gautier ]

Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it. [ Vauvenargues ]

A nobleman who leads a degraded life is a monster in nature. [ Molière ]

Man is an imitative being, and the foremost leads the flock. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day. [ Lamartine ]

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. [ Milton ]

The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. [ Schiller ]

The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. [ Foster ]

To what gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties leads! [ Byron ]

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. [ Zimmermann ]

Hope says to us at every moment: Go on! go on! and leads us thus to the grave. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Time, which enfeebles criminal desires, leads us back to legitimate affection. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. [ William Penn ]

Cold duty's path is not so blithely trod Which leads the mournful spirit to its God. [ William Herbert ]

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]

A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. [ Confucius ]

Clear-sighted reason, wisdom's judgment leads; and sense, her vassal, in her footsteps treads. [ Sir J. Denham ]

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. [ Ernest Renan ]

A small inkling of philosophy leads man to despise learning; much philosophy leads man to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. [ Sam'l Johnson ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. [ Landor ]

Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. [ Homer ]

Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]

One must have a heart to know how to love; senses do not suffice. Temperament led by the mind leads to voluptuousness, but never to love. [ De Bernis ]

Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]

Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study, that naturally leads the soul into the knowledge of that which at first seemed locked up from it. [ R. South ]

Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Emerson ]

Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim. [ Mazzini ]

I have strictly adhered to the rule of never copying. I write at once as I intend the words to stand. This leads to great precision of thought, and makes the style fresh and vigorous. [ Louisa Molesworth, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]

What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]

Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty. [ Bishop Doane ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

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The word leads is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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leads in Words With Friends™

The word leads is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence leads

Words that start with leads (3 words)

Words with leads in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving leads

Shorter words in leads

ad ads

ad lead

lea lead

Longer words containing leads

deleads

fairleads

leadscrew leadscrews

misleads

outleads

overleads

pleads counterpleads

pleads interpleads

pleads mispleads

pleads repleads

underleads