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 leading ['li:diŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 领导, 指挥, 神示, 铅板

a. 领导的, 主要的, 在前的

[机] 加铅, 领先; 主导的, 定向的




    leading
    [ noun ]
    1. thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. the activity of leading

    4. <noun.act>
      his leadership inspired the team
    [ adj ]
    1. going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way

    2. <adj.all>
      we rode in the leading car
      the leading edge of technology
    3. indicating the most important performer or role

    4. <adj.all>
      the leading man
      prima ballerina
      prima donna
      a star figure skater
      the starring role
      a stellar role
      a stellar performance
    5. greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

    6. <adj.all>
      our greatest statesmen
      the country's leading poet
      a preeminent archeologist
    7. having the leading position or higher score in a contest

    8. <adj.all>
      he is ahead by a pawn
      the leading team in the pennant race


    Lead \Lead\ (l[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leaded}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Leading}.]
    1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing
    leads the grooves of a rifle.

    2. (Print.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead
    a page; leaded matter.


    Lead \Lead\ (l[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Led} (l[e^]d); p. pr.
    & vb. n. {Leading}.] [OE. leden, AS. l[=ae]dan (akin to OS.
    l[=e]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][eth]a, Sw.
    leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[eth]an to
    go; akin to OHG. l[imac]dan, Icel. l[imac][eth]a, Goth.
    lei[thorn]an (in comp.). Cf. {Lode}, {Loath}.]
    1. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some
    physical contact or connection; as, a father leads a
    child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a
    blind man.

    If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in
    the ditch. --Wyclif
    (Matt. xv.
    14.)

    They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto
    the brow of the hill. --Luke iv. 29.

    In thy right hand lead with thee
    The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. --Milton.

    2. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain
    place or end, by making the way known; to show the way,
    esp. 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.

    The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a
    cloud, to lead them the way. --Ex. xiii.
    21.

    He leadeth me beside the still waters. --Ps. xxiii.
    2.

    This thought might lead me through the world's vain
    mask.
    Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
    --Milton.

    3. 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.

    Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he
    might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or
    possess places. --South.

    4. 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.

    As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. --Fairfax.

    And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. --Leigh
    Hunt.

    5. 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.

    He was driven by the necessities of the times, more
    than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of
    actions. --Eikon
    Basilike.

    Silly women, laden with sins, led away by divers
    lusts. --2 Tim. iii.
    6 (Rev. Ver.).

    6. 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).

    That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. --1
    Tim. ii. 2.

    Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
    A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson.

    You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife
    and daughter. --Dickens.

    7. (Cards & Dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with;
    as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.

    {To lead astray}, to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to
    seduce from truth or rectitude.

    {To lead captive}, to carry or bring into captivity.

    {To lead the way}, to show the way by going in front; to act
    as guide. --Goldsmith.


    Leading \Lead"ing\, a.
    Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading
    motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- {Lead"ing*ly},
    adv.

    {Leading case} (Law), a reported decision which has come to
    be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
    --Abbott.

    {Leading motive} [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a
    guiding theme; in the musical drama of Wagner, a marked
    melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies
    the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract
    idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of
    musical label. Also called {leitmotif} or {leitmotiv}.

    {Leading note} (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the
    ascending major scale; the sensible note.

    {Leading question}, a question so framed as to guide the
    person questioned in making his reply.

    {Leading strings}, strings by which children are supported
    when beginning to walk.

    {To be in leading strings}, to be in a state of infancy or
    dependence, or under the guidance of others.

    {Leading wheel}, a wheel situated before the driving wheels
    of a locomotive engine.


    Leading \Lead"ing\, n.
    1. The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing;
    guidance. --Shak.

    2. Suggestion; hint; example. [Archaic] --Bacon.

    1. Popov, a judge who is a member of neither leading faction, was chosen to lead a new government after strikes and protests forced Socialist Premier Andrei Lukanov and his government of former Communists to quit late last month.
    2. A leading Republican senator accused fellow GOP lawmakers and conservatives Tuesday of "downright deliberate deceit" in attacks on a major child care package and said the Republican alternative paled in comparison.
    3. It said NASA was trying to do too much and allowing too little margin for the unexpected, leading to frequent revamping of major programs.
    4. Unusually, he took a leading role in seeking to secure more generous tax treatment for the industry during the final stages of the finance bill.
    5. Researchers in Atlanta said that a common, non-surgical procedure for opening clogged or narrowed arteries leading to the heart has produced encouraging results.
    6. Pitney Bowes Inc., a leading maker of business machines in Stamford, Conn., helped pioneer flexible working hours to accommodate working parents, allowing them to arrive early some days and leave early on others.
    7. That measure narrowly passed, leading to the vote next week.
    8. The petroleum industry as a whole did not reap a third-quarter windfall from the Persian Gulf crisis, a leading trade group said in a defense of Big Oil against charges of profiteering.
    9. "The response has not been what Sears hoped for," said Scott Brandwein, executive vice president of Frain, Camins & Swartchild, one of Chicago's leading real estate brokers.
    10. Galan, the leading presidential candidate, was an outspoken foe of the drug traders.
    11. "He's always convinced that he's right, although he has so often been proved wrong," says Lawrence Pih, one of Sao Paulo's leading businessmen.
    12. But Gamble says the recent rise in timber prices of 10-20 per cent must be an excellent leading indicator that now is a fine time to buy a wood. US prices have done better still.
    13. News that the index of leading indicators rose 0.9% and factory orders rose 3.8% in March was better than generally expected.
    14. Shiseido Co., Japan's leading cosmetics maker, says its Australian and Singapore subsidiaries are recalling six skin care products containing an acid that one Australian researcher linked to skin cancer.
    15. The FBI went to great lengths in 1987 to lure convicted hijacker Fawaz Younis to a yacht in international waters off Cyprus to arrest him for leading a 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner carrying several U.S. citizens.
    16. The biggest failing, however, comes from showing Marlowe as a Faustus figure believing in Dog not God, leading to lines like 'Dog help me' and 'Dog Almighty'.
    17. He did not elaborate on what if any legal guarantees would be taken that the party was giving up its leading role.
    18. Declaring the country "a kingdom of lies," a leading Roman Catholic clergyman Sunday accused the military of hindering an inquiry into the massacre of six Jesuit priests.
    19. Hollywood never offered the wire-haired star a lucrative leading role in action-adventure pictures; these went instead to rivals Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin.
    20. Robu said one of Ceausescu's daughters, Zoia-Elena, and another son, Valentin, were in jail but were not leading figures in the ousted regime.
    21. Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Social Democratic party leader, and Lone Dybkjaer, a leading light in the Radical Liberal party, have been living in unmarried bliss for the past two years.
    22. The White House abandoned the bid for a compromise after chief of staff John Sununu met for a second day Monday with leading anti-abortion congressmen.
    23. After several months of struggle, banks were forced to suspend cash payments nationwide, leading to illiquidity, a stock market crash, and a dramatic fall in economic activity.
    24. The high-flying Pirates have been baseball's biggest surprise this year, leading the National League Eastern division. What's more, management believes the scrappy club can sell 2 million tickets, enough to eke out a profit.
    25. Richard Schroeder, a leading Social Democrat lawmaker, said after talks broke off that his party still hoped to join de Maiziere's government.
    26. Many people recognize that Imre Pozsgay, a leading reformer in the Hungarian Communist Party, played an important role in dismantling the one-party system in that nation.
    27. Bush, after leading strongly in public opinion polls in New Hampshire, saw his advantage melt away after he finished third in the Iowa caucuses Feb. 8, beaten by Dole and former television evangelist Pat Robertson.
    28. However, the shares later recovered to end only 2 lower at 199p after buying was reported at S G Warburg. A cut in mortgage interest rates lifted P & O, whose Bovis subsidiary is a leading UK housebuilder.
    29. Militants leaving other cities to go to the border would also be stopped, he added. Mr Qayyum defended his goverment's position on the Kashmiri right to self-determination leading to accession with Pakistan.
    30. There has been speculation here that interest rates may be headed higher because consumer demand threatens to outpace domestic production, leading to a surge of imports that would weaken the British pound and spur inflation.
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