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Leader
English
Noun
leader (plural: leaders)
- One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:
- (a) One who goes first.
- (b) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
- (c) (Music): A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
- (d) (Nautical): A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (e) (Machines): The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. [Obs. or R.] G. Francis.
- (f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
- Quotations
- He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. - Hare?
- (g) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
- (h) (Fishing): A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
- (i) (Mining): A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
- (Printing)
- (a) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (b) (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.
- (Film) A piece of blank film at the beginning of a movie to allow the film to be threaded in the projector.
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- Dutch: leider m, leidster f, aanvoerder m, aanvoerster f
- French: chef m
- German: Anführer m, Anführerin f
- Latin: dux m,f
- Polish: przywódca m
- Spanish: líder m
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