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Lead-in

Definitions: Lead-in

Lead-in

Noun

1. The introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter".

2. Wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Lead-in

DomainDefinitions

Industry

The forward lean given to the blades of a vertical frame-saw so that the teeth disengage from the wood during the upward(i. e. non-cutting)part of the stroke. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Lead-in

Synonym: lead (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lead-in

English words defined with "lead-in": lead. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lead-in": ANTENNA INSTALLERCABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, contact plate. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Lead-in

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Usage Frequency: Lead-in

"Lead-in" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lead-in" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Lead-in

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "lead-in": lead-in-petrol.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lead-in

Language Translations for "lead-in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

导入者. (various references)

   

French

  

inclinaison de la ligne des dents (lead), inclinaison de la denture (lead). (various references)

   

German

  

Überhang (cornice, electric utility surplus, hang, lead, overhang, surplus). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trabocco (hang, lead, overhang, overspill). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ead-inlay

   

Portuguese

  

inclinação da linha dos dentes (hang, lead, overhang). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ввод (applet, inlet, input, lead in). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cabeceo (hang, lead, longitudinal vibration, nodding, nosing motion, overhang, pitch, pitching). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Lead-in

Misspellings

"Lead-in" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liadin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lead-in

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alined, denial, nailed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n"

-1 letter: ailed, alien, aline, anile, elain, eland, ideal, laden, liane, lined, naled, nidal.

-2 letters: aide, anil, dale, deal, dean, deil, deli, deni, dial, diel, dine, elan, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, lied, lien, line, nail, nide.

-3 letters: aid, ail, ain, ale, and, ane, ani, dal, del, den, die, din, eld, end, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, lin, nae, nil.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, an, de, ed, el, en, id, in, la, li, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: aliened, aligned, aliunde, annelid, anviled, dealing, delaine, denials, inhaled, inlaced, leading, lindane, plained, snailed, unideal.

 

+2 letters: alcidine, annelids, anvilled, bidental, bilander, bindable, blindage, calcined, canfield, dateline, dawnlike, deadline, dealings, delaines, delating, delation, delaying, deniable, deniably, dentalia, dentinal, divalent, dragline, dulcinea, endemial, enfilade, entailed, finagled, findable, finialed, gliadine, handlike, hardline, headline, inflamed, inflated, inlander, inwalled, islanded, islander, ladening, landline, landmine, landside, leadings, lindanes, lineated, maidenly, maligned, mandible, medaling, medianly, melanoid, nailhead, nonideal, palinode, panicled, pantiled, pedaling, pineland, pleading, renailed, sandlike, sandpile, signaled, tideland, unallied, unhailed, unnailed, windable.

 

+3 letters: acidulent, adenoidal, alienated, alimented, almandine, almandite, alongside, amplidyne, andouille, aneuploid, annelidan, balconied, banalized, bandolier, beladying, belauding, bilanders, blindages, breadline, cadential, calamined, calendric, canalised, canalized, candlelit, candlepin, canfields, celandine, clarioned, coleading, dailiness, dalliance, dandelion, datelined, datelines, deadlines, dealation, decennial, declaring, declawing, defiantly, definable, definably, deflating, deflation, defleaing, defoliant, deglazing, delations, deleading, deleaving, delineate, demential, demonical, denominal, dentalium, deplaning, derailing, desalting, detailing, devaluing, disentail, dismantle, draglines, drinkable, dulcineas, enchilada, enfiladed, enfilades, engrailed, ensilaged, euclidean, euclidian, explained, finalised, finalized, flatlined, gavelkind, genocidal, girandole, gliadines, headlined, headliner, headlines, heralding, hobnailed, identical, impaneled, implanted, inaudible, inclasped, indexical, initialed, inlanders, insolated, installed, insulated, interlaid, interlard, invalided, islanders, javelined, laddering, laminated, landlines, landmines, landsides, landsleit, landslide, latinized, laundries, lidocaine, madeleine, madrilene, mainlined, mandibles, mandoline, medaillon, medalling, medallion, medicinal, melanized, melanoids, middleman, mishandle, nailheads, nasalised, nasalized, nialamide, palinodes, panoplied, pedalling, penalised, penalized, philander, pinelands, pinnacled, planetoid, planished, pleadings, realigned, redialing, reloading, salinized, sandflies, sandpiles, signalled, tailender, tidelands, toenailed, treadling, unaligned, unclaimed, underlaid, underlain, unleading, unplaited, unridable, unrivaled, uredinial, vandalise, vandalize, videoland, zinfandel.

 

+4 letters: accidental, accidently, acetanilid, adenoviral, adhesional, adrenaline, adulterine, aldermanic, almandines, almandites, aluminized, amplidynes, analogized, andalusite, andouilles, aneuploids, aneuploidy, anglicised, anglicized, animalized, animatedly, annelidans, annualized, ascendible, balkanized, banderilla, bandoliers, bedabbling, bedazzling, begladding, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, breadlines, calcimined, candlefish, candlepins, candlewick, celandines, chandelier, complained, credential, culminated, dalliances, dandelions, datelining, deadliness, dealations, debonairly, decennials, decisional, declaiming, declassing, declinable, defaulting, defilading, deflations, defoliants, delaminate, delegating, delegation, delineated, delineates, delineator, delusional, demoniacal, dentaliums, depilating, depilation, derailment, desalinate, desalinize, desolating, desolation, devotional, dilettante, dilettanti, disentails, disenthral, dismalness, dismantled, dismantles, displanted, drinkables, eliminated, enchiladas, endothelia, enfilading, escalading, evidential, fulminated, gadolinite, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, gavelkinds, girandoles, gladdening, grainfield, handseling, headliners, headlining, heulandite, highlander, hinterland, idealising, idealizing, ideational, imbalanced, impanelled, impleading, incidental, includable, inculcated, inculpated, indelicacy, indelicate, indexicals, indictable, ineducable, initialled, inoculated, intaglioed, interlaced, interlards, intermodal, internodal, interplead, intertidal, inthralled, invalidate, ladyfinger, landladies, landslides, languished, lanthanide, laundering, lidocaines, linearised, linearized, linerboard, lipreading, longhaired, madeleines, madrilenes, mainlander, malingered, mandolines, manifolded, medaillons, medallions, medicinals, meridional, misaligned, misdealing, mishandled, mishandles, misleading, mislearned, misplanned, misplanted, multipaned, myelinated, nephridial, nialamides, nodalities, nonaligned, nonmedical, normalised, normalized, occidental, overlading, palindrome, pallidness, panbroiled, pavilioned, pedimental, pentaploid, philanders, placidness, planetoids, planetwide, platinized, pleadingly, pollinated, ponytailed, prudential, redialling, rehandling, reinflated, repleading, resaddling, ringleader, rudimental, sailplaned, sanderling, scandalise, scandalize, signalised, signalized, slandering, sloganized, solenoidal, soundalike, sphenoidal, strandline, tailenders, tantalised, tantalized, timberland, unassailed, uncalcined, unciliated, undeniable, undeniably, unfindable, uninflated, unladylike, unrealized, unrivalled, unsalaried, unsteadily, vandalised, vandalises, vandalized, vandalizes, ventilated, vernalized, videolands, vindicable, vulcanised, vulcanized, windlassed, windlasses, zinfandels.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lead-in


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 61 64 2D 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01100100 00101101 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#45 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0064 002D 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46716770157580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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