Lead and Captain

noun

• An advantage held by a competitor in a race.
  • usage: "he took the lead at the last turn"
• A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey.
  • usage: "the children were playing with lead soldiers"
  • synonyms: Pb, atomic number 82
• Evidence pointing to a possible solution.
  • usage: "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
  • synonyms: track, trail
• A position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'. )
  • usage: "he takes the lead in any group"; "we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"; "they didn't follow our 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. )
• The introductory section of a story.
  • usage: "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter"
  • synonyms: lead-in, lede
• Sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning. (
• An actor who plays a principal role.
  • synonyms: star, principal
• Baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base. (
  • usage: "he took a long lead off first"
• An indication of potential opportunity.
  • usage: "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
  • synonyms: tip, steer, confidential information, wind, hint
• A news story of major importance.
  • synonyms: lead story
• The timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine.
  • synonyms: spark advance
• Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
  • synonyms: leash, tether
• Thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing.
  • synonyms: leading
• Mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil.
  • synonyms: pencil lead
• A jumper that consists of a short piece of wire.
  • usage: "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"
  • synonyms: jumper cable, jumper lead, booster cable
• The playing of a card to start a trick in bridge.
  • usage: "the lead was in the dummy"

verb

• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
  • synonyms: take, direct, conduct, guide
• Have as a result or residue.
  • usage: "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
  • synonyms: leave, result
• Tend to or result in.
  • usage: "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests"
• Travel in front of; go in advance of others.
  • usage: "The procession was headed by John"
  • synonyms: head
• Cause to undertake a certain action.
  • usage: "Her greed led her to forge the checks"
• Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: run, go, pass, extend
• Be in charge of.
  • usage: "Who is heading this project"
  • synonyms: head
• Be ahead of others; be the first.
  • usage: "she topped her class every year"
  • synonyms: top
• Be conducive to.
  • usage: "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
  • synonyms: contribute, conduce
• Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
  • usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • synonyms: conduct, direct
• Lead, extend, or afford access.
  • usage: "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South"
  • synonyms: go
• Move ahead (of others) in time or space.
  • synonyms: precede
• Cause something to pass or lead somewhere.
  • usage: "Run the wire behind the cabinet"
  • synonyms: run
• Preside over.
  • usage: "John moderated the discussion"
  • synonyms: moderate, chair

• (n.) The course of a rope from end to end.
• (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead.
• (v.t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
• (v.t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
• (v.t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party or a search; to lead a political party.
• (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
• (v.t.) 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. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
• (v.i.) 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 lead, v. t.
• (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• (v.t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
• (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
• (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length or of half a second.
• (v.t.) To guide or conduct with the hand or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
• (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
• (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• (v.t.) To guide or conduct one's self 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).
• (v.t.) To cover, fill or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
• (v.t.) To begin a game, round or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
• (v.t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
• (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
• (n.) A lode.
• (n.) An open way in an ice field.
• (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• (n.) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• (n.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn.
• (n.) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
• (n.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
• (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called negative lead.
• (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo.
• (n.) A r/le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r/le.
• (n.) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
• (n.) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.

lead is an element that was once used as a pigment and drying agent in paint. An elevated level of lead in the body can cause serious damage to the brain, nervous system, kidneys and red blood cells. The degree of harm is related to the amount of exposure and the age at which a person is exposed. The Federal government estimates that lead is present in about 75 percent of all private homes in the United States built before 1978.

noun

• An officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant.
• The naval officer in command of a military ship.
  • synonyms: skipper
• A policeman in charge of a precinct.
  • synonyms: police captain, police chief
• An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship.
  • synonyms: master, sea captain, skipper
• The leader of a group of people.
  • usage: "a captain of industry"
  • synonyms: chieftain
• The pilot in charge of an airship.
  • synonyms: senior pilot
• A dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers.
  • synonyms: headwaiter, maitre d'hotel, maitre d'

verb

• Be the captain of a sports team. .

• (v.t.) To act as captain of; to lead.
• (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
• (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
• (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
• (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
• (n.) A head or chief officer.
• (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
• (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
• (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
• (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop or battery or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
• (a.) Chief; superior.

• Name Meaning: He who is in charge
• Name Origin: English