leader
- Noun. Any person or thing that leads or conducts.
- Noun. One who goes first.
- Noun. One having authority to direct.
- Noun. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- Noun. A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- Noun. (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- Noun. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- Noun. An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- Noun. (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- Noun. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- Noun. (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- Noun. (fishing) 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.
- Noun. A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- Noun. (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- Noun. (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- Noun. (printing, in) 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.
- Noun. (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Noun. (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- Noun. (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- Noun. (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.