Meaning of leader | Babel Free

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1. Any person who leads or directs. One who goes first
2. leader (of a group of people, a sports team etc.)
3. A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.
   countable, uncountable
4. Any person who leads or directs.
5. One who goes first
6. to deceive. om die bos lei يَخْدَع заблуждавам desencaminhar tahat za nos irreführen føre bag lyset εξαπατώengañar ninapidi vedama گول زدن pettää mener en bateau לְרָמוֹת धोखा देना zavarati becsap, átejt menyesatkan blekkja rigirare まどわす 속이다 apgauti, suvedžioti vazāt aiz deguna memperdaya om de tuin leidenføre bak lyset `wpuścić w maliny` غولول،دوكه وركول desencaminhar a înşela водить за нос ťahať za nos povleči koga za nos prevariti lura, vilseleda หลอกลวง kandırmak, aldatmak 矇騙 водити за ні...
7. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.
   countable, uncountable
8. One who goes first.
9. One having authority to direct
10. to progress towards; to contribute to. to lead up to a climax; the events leading up to the First World War. voer tot, geen aanleiding يُؤَدّي ، يَقود إلى водещ до conduzir vést k führen zu lede op til οδηγώ σε, καταλήγω llevar a, conducir a viima راه را برای چیزی یا کاری آماده کردن johtaa conduire à לִתרוֹם, לְהוֹבִיל परिणति की ओर ले जाना voditi vhová elvezet menuju vera undanfari, leiða til portare a ～へ導く 차츰 ...에 이르다 privesti iki pakāpeniski sagatavot menuju leiden totlede opp til (do)prowa...
11. A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.
    countable, uncountable
12. One having authority to direct.
13. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
14. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles
15. to go first (especially to show the way). She led the way upstairs. baan die weg يسير في المُقَدِّمَه показвам пътя mostrar o caminho ukazovat cestu vorangehen gå først; vise vej δέιχνω το δρόμο enseñar/mostrar el camino teed näitama جلو رفتن johtaa passer devant לְהוֹבִיל אֶת הַדֶרֶך आगे चलना, मार्ग प्रदर्शन करना voditi előre megy jalan dulu fara fyrir, vísa veginn fare strada 案内する 앞장 서다 eiti priekyje, vesti rādīt ceļu; iet pirmajam jalan dulu untuk menunjukkan jalan voorgaanvise veien, lede...
    especially
16. A populated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States.
    countable, uncountable
17. A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
18. A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc
19. One that leads or guides.
20. A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
21. One who is in charge or in command of others.
22. The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
    UK
23. One who heads a political party or organization.
24. An animal that leads.
25. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
26. Music a. A conductor, especially of an orchestra, band, or choral group.
    Music
27. An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
28. The foremost animal, such as a horse or dog, in a harnessed team.
29. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
30. A loss leader.
31. Someone or something that leads or conducts.
32. A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
33. Chiefly British The main editorial in a newspaper.
    Chiefly British
34. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
35. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
    UK
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. An intertitle.
    dated
39. A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
40. A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
41. 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.
    in-plural
42. A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
43. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
44. A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
45. The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
46. The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.

Equivalents

Examples

“In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.”

“Follow the leader.”

“We elected her team leader.”

“America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past.”

“On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as a leader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.”

“The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.”

“Leader of the House of Commons”

“Senate Majority Leader”

“The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.”

“The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.”

“Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.”

“How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.””

“A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."”

“If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.”

“The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.”

“when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower”

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