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Leading   /lˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Leading

adjective
1.
Indicating the most important performer or role.  Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar.  "Prima ballerina" , "Prima donna" , "A star figure skater" , "The starring role" , "A stellar role" , "A stellar performance"
2.
Greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement.  Synonym: preeminent.  "The country's leading poet" , "A preeminent archeologist"
3.
Going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way.  "The leading edge of technology"  Antonym: following.
4.
Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.  Synonyms: ahead, in the lead.  "The leading team in the pennant race"
noun
1.
Thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing.  Synonym: lead.
2.
The activity of leading.  Synonym: leadership.



Lead

verb
(past & past part. led; pres. part. leading)
1.
Take somebody somewhere.  Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take.  "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"
2.
Have as a result or residue.  Synonyms: leave, result.  "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
3.
Tend to or result in.
4.
Travel in front of; go in advance of others.  Synonym: head.
5.
Cause to undertake a certain action.
6.
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.  Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run.  "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.
Be in charge of.  Synonym: head.
8.
Be ahead of others; be the first.  Synonym: top.
9.
Be conducive to.  Synonyms: conduce, contribute.
10.
Lead, as in the performance of a composition.  Synonyms: conduct, direct.
11.
Lead, extend, or afford access.  Synonym: go.  "The road runs South"
12.
Move ahead (of others) in time or space.  Synonym: precede.  Antonym: follow.
13.
Cause something to pass or lead somewhere.  Synonym: run.
14.
Preside over.  Synonyms: chair, moderate.



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"Leading" Quotes from Famous Books



... where the great magnolias stood were massed the white wings of angels fanning forth fragrances untold and heavenly, and one by one slowly revealing themselves in the dawn of another day. It seemed as if great and awful spirits must be leading this little being into ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various

... to Soulanges, leading him into a corner, "the Emperor spoke warmly in your praise this morning, and your promotion to ...
— Domestic Peace • Honore de Balzac

... one of the leading men. His cabin of logs stood on an island in the river, and is said to have been the largest in the settlement. It had a log veranda in front, several rooms, a loft, and best of all, a huge fireplace made of sticks and stones laid in clay, in which a pile ...
— Stories of Later American History • Wilbur F. Gordy

... and the wooden bar adjoining it is inserted a strip of copper, c, for leading away the current from the zinc pole of the battery, and between the carbon plates and the wooden bars is inserted a doubled strip of copper, d, forming a connection between the two carbon plates, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various

... than yesterday, two very pungent leading articles in the London daily journals, on the present all-absorbing subject of railway speculation. Both writers are evidently well versed in the details of the novel system; both possess some smattering of political economy, sufficient at least to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various


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