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Definitions: Lead-in |
Lead-inNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonym: Lead-inSynonym: lead (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lead-in |
| English words defined with "lead-in": lead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lead-in": ANTENNA INSTALLER ♦ CABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, contact plate. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lead-in": lead-in-petrol. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 inclinação da linha dos dentes (hang, lead, overhang). (various references) ввод (applet, inlet, input, lead in). (various references) cabeceo (hang, lead, longitudinal vibration, nodding, nosing motion, overhang, pitch, pitching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Lead-in" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liadin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. 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 2D 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01100100 00101101 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a d - i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0064 002D 0069 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716770157580 |
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