Definitions for leds

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leds led

Spelling: [led]

IPA: /lɛd/

Leds is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in leds (dels).

Definitions for leds

noun

1. light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
2. the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
3. the extent of such an advance position:
4. a person or thing that leads.
5. a leash.
6. a suggestion or piece of information that helps to direct or guide; tip; clue:
7. a guide or indication of a road, course, method, etc., to follow.
8. precedence; example; leadership:
9. Theater. the principal part in a play. the person who plays it.
10. Cards. the act or right of playing first, as in a round. the card, suit, etc., so played.
11. Journalism. a short summary serving as an introduction to a news story, article, or other copy. the main and often most important news story.
12. Electricity. an often flexible and insulated single conductor, as a wire, used in connections between pieces of electric apparatus.
13. the act of taking the offensive.
14. Nautical. the direction of a rope, wire, or chain. Also called leader. any of various devices for guiding a running rope.
15. Naval Architecture. the distance between the center of lateral resistance and the center of effort of a sailing ship, usually expressed decimally as a fraction of the water-line length.
16. an open channel through a field of ice.
17. Mining. a lode. an auriferous deposit in an old riverbed.
18. the act of aiming a gun ahead of a moving target.
19. the distance ahead of a moving target that a gun must be aimed in order to score a direct hit.
20. Baseball. an act or instance of leading.
21. Manège. (of a horse at a canter or gallop) the foreleg that consistently extends beyond and strikes the ground ahead of the other foreleg:
22. Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
23. something made of this metal or of one of its alloys.
24. a plummet or mass of lead suspended by a line, as for taking soundings.
25. bullets collectively; shot.
26. black lead or graphite.
27. a small stick of graphite, as used in pencils.
28. Also, leading. Printing. a thin strip of type metal or brass less than type-high, used for increasing the space between lines of type.
29. a grooved bar of lead or came in which sections of glass are set, as in stained-glass windows.
30. leads, British. a roof, especially one that is shallow or flat, covered with lead.
31. white lead.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lead1 .

Idioms

1. lead someone a chase / dance, to cause someone difficulty by forcing to do irksome or unnecessary things.
2. lead the way. way1 (def 34).
3. lead up to, to prepare the way for. to approach (a subject, disclosure, etc.) gradually or evasively:
4. get the lead out, Slang. to move or work faster; hurry up.
5. heave the lead, Nautical. to take a sounding with a lead.
6. go over like a lead balloon, Slang. to fail to arouse interest, enthusiasm, or support.

adjective

1. most important; principal; leading; first:
2. Football. (of a forward pass) thrown ahead of the intended receiver so as to allow him to catch it while running.
3. Baseball. (of a base runner) nearest to scoring:
4. made of or containing lead:

Verb phrases

1. lead off, to take the initiative; begin. Baseball. to be the first player in the batting order or the first batter in an inning.
2. lead on, to induce to follow an unwise course of action; mislead. to cause or encourage to believe something that is not true.
3. lead out, to make a beginning. to escort a partner to begin a dance:

verb (used with object)

1. to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort:
2. to conduct by holding and guiding:
3. to influence or induce; cause:
4. to guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc.; bring:
5. to conduct or bring (water, wire, etc.) in a particular course.
6. (of a road, passage, etc.) to serve to bring (a person) to a place:
7. to take or bring:
8. to command or direct (an army or other large organization):
9. to go at the head of or in advance of (a procession, list, body, etc.); proceed first in:
10. to be superior to; have the advantage over:
11. to have top position or first place in:
12. to have the directing or principal part in:
13. to act as leader of (an orchestra, band, etc.); conduct.
14. to go through or pass (time, life, etc.):
15. Cards. to begin a round, game, etc., with (a card or suit specified).
16. to aim and fire a firearm or cannon ahead of (a moving target) in order to allow for the travel of the target while the bullet or shell is reaching it.
17. Football. to throw a lead pass to (an intended receiver):
18. to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
19. Printing. to insert leads between the lines of.
20. to fix (window glass) in position with leads.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a guide; show the way:
2. to afford passage to a place:
3. to go first; be in advance:
4. to result in; tend toward (usually followed by to):
5. to take the directing or principal part.
6. to take the offensive:
7. Cards. to make the first play.
8. to be led or submit to being led, as a horse:
9. Baseball. (of a base runner) to leave a base before the delivery of a pitch in order to reach the next base more quickly (often followed by away).
10. lead back, to play (a card) from a suit that one's partner led.

Origin of leds

before 900; Middle English leden, Old English lǣdan (causative of līthan to go, travel); cognate with Dutch leiden, German leiten, Old Norse leitha

Examples for leds

It is a thought, an ideal, which has led to an entirely new line of action.

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

Their claims have led to both academic controversy and localized conflict.

You know about this end of the game, and I'll have to be led entirely by you.

I am easily persuaded and led on while no reasons are thrown before me.

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.

These circumstances have led me to suppose that you worship them as mere forms.

The advisers, led by Suleimani, included none other than Taghavi.

Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

He led her, unresisting, around to the couch at the other side of the table.