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Definition: Lead Story |
Lead StoryNoun1. A news story of major importance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Lead StorySynonym: lead (n). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | The lead story in the burned issue concerned the construction of a new mansion for President Mugabe. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "lead story": the lead story. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dateline lead story | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lead story"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | най-важната новина (the lead story). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadlay orystay başmakale (editorial, leader, leading article). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: delators, leotards, lodestar. | |
-2 letters: dartles, delator, destroy, drylots, leotard, loaders, lyrated, oldster, ordeals, reloads, roasted, solated, strayed, stroyed, torsade, yodlers. | |
-3 letters: adores, alders, aldose, alerts, alters, artels, dartle, daters, dearly, delays, deltas, derats, derays, desalt, dorsal, dorsel, doters, dryest, drylot, elytra, estral, estray, laders, lasted, laster, layers, loader, lyrate, lysate, oaters, odyles, oldest, orated, orates, ordeal, oreads, osteal, ostler, oyster, ratels, realty, relays, reload, resold, retold, royals, salted, salter, sarode, slated, slater, slatey, slayed, slayer, soared, solate, solder, sorely, sorted, staled, staler, stared, stayed, stayer, steady, stelar, sterol, stoled, stored, storey, strode, stylar, styled, styler, talers, todays, tolars, toyers, trades, treads, yarest, yodels, yodler, yodles. | |
-4 letters: adore, alder, alert, aloes, alter, altos, arles, arose, artel, artsy, aryls, aster, dales, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, deals, dealt, dears, deary, delay, delta, delts, derat, deray, doats, doers, doest, doles, dolts, dorsa, dorty, doser, dotal, doter, dotes, drats, drays, drest, dyers, earls, early, eyras, lader, lades, lards, lardy, lares, lased, laser, lated, later, layed, layer, leads, leady, lears, leary, least, loads, lodes, lords, lores, loser, lotas, lyard, lyart, lyase, lyres, lysed, oared, oater, odyle, odyls, older, orals, orate, oread, orles, oyers, rales, rased, rated, ratel, rates, ratos, rayed, reads, ready, reals, redly, redos, relay, resay, resod, roads, roast, roles, rosed, roset, rotas, rotes, rotls, royal, ryots, sadly, salty, sarod, sated, satyr, sayer, seral, setal, slate, slaty, sloyd, slyer, solar, soled, sorel, stade, stale, stare, stead, steal, stela, stoae, stole, store, story, stray, stroy, styed, style, taels, taler, tales, tardo, tardy, tared, tares, taros, teals, tears, teary, telos, tesla, toads, toady, today, toeas, tolar, tolas, toled, toles, toras, tores, torse, toyed, toyer, trade, trays, tread, treys, trode, troys, tsade, tyers, tyred, tyres, tyros, yards, years, yeast, yodel, yodle, yores. | |
-5 letters: ados, aero, aery, ales, aloe, also, alto, alts, ares, arse, arts, arty, aryl, ates, ayes, dale, dals, dare, dart, date, dato, days, deal, dear, dels, delt, deys, doat, doer, does, dole, dols, dolt, dore, dors, dory, dose, dost, dote, dots, doty, drat, dray, drys, dyer, dyes, earl, ears, east, easy, eats, elds, eras, eros, erst, etas, eyas, eyra, lade, lads, lady, lard, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lays, lead, lear, leas, lest, lets, leys, load, lode, lord, lore, lory, lose, lost, lota, lots, lyes, lyre, lyse, oars, oast, oats, odea, odes, odyl, olds, oldy, olea, oles, orad, oral, ores, orle, orts, osar, oyer, oyes, rads, rale, rase, rate, rato, rats, rays, read, real, redo, reds, rely, rest, rets, road. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: hydrolysate. | |
+3 letters: adulterously, demonstrably, hydrolysates, hydrolyzates, hydroxylates, pterodactyls, sacerdotally. | |
+4 letters: adventurously, considerately, constrainedly, perissodactyl, softheartedly, solderability, subordinately. | |
+5 letters: ambidextrously, decarboxylates, dorsiventrally, dorsoventrally, indemonstrably, perissodactyls, phosphorylated, stoutheartedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 64 53 74 6F 72 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a d   S t o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0064 0053 0074 006F 0072 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671677025386818491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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