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Definition: Leading |
LeadingAdjective1. Indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance". 2. Going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way; "we rode in the leading car"; "the leading edge of technology". 3. Greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist". 4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race". 5. Purposefully formulated to elicit a desired response; "a leading question". Noun1. Thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing. 2. The activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Leading |
Mechanical Engineering | Motion of a blade about the lag hinge, in the same direction as rotor rotation; the opposite of lagging. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Derb. Small sparry veins in the rock. Syn:leader. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In typography, leading (pronounced ledd-ing) refers to the amount of added space between lines of type. When type was set by hand for printing presses, printers placed slugs of lead between lines of type to add space. Leading is commonly confused with line height, which refers to the full height of a line of type (the size of the type itself plus the leading). Text with no leading is set solid. In this case, the line height is equal to the type size.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LE | English | Leading Edge | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LeadingSynonyms: ahead(p) (adj), greatest (adj), in the lead (adj), leading(a) (adj), leading(p) (adj), preeminent (adj), prima(p) (adj), star(p) (adj), starring(p) (adj), stellar(a) (adj), lead (n), leadership (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: following (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | First, foremost, leading; maiden. |
Importance | Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance. |
Precession | Noun: precession, leading, heading; precedence; priority; the lead, le pas; van; (front); precursor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Leading |
| English words defined with "leading": leading lady, leading man, leading question. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leading": Leading Rating, leading underwriter's agreement, leading winning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "leading": Ventiduct. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All right, who's leading this mob (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women leading to anarchy of biblical proportions (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Now what are the odds of that Trap door leading out here (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) Now here is a little peninsula and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) | |
Lyrics | Everthing in my life was leading me on (Don't Look Back; performing artist: BOSTON) Leading you down into my core (Bring Me to Life; performing artist: EVANESCENCE) Every highway leading me back to you (The Search is Over; performing artist: Survivor) | |
Clever | A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. (references; author: unknown) WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead knees. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Leading ladies (2001) Part 3: Leading Edge Repairs Aircraft Wood Repair (1943) Our Leading Citizen (1939) Leading a Dog's Life (1921) Wanted: A Leading Lady (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seen is a young oriental male technician performing drug synthesis. He is seen in a lab setting, wearing a lab coat. He is pouring and spooning chemicals into a long tube where they are mixed and later placed in the beaker at the bottom. NCI plays a leading role in the development of anticancer drugs. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Pictured is a group of children, part of a large Morman family. One of the adolescents is leading the other children in play exercises, including pushups. It is a family room and the children are all on the floor. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Line graph showing death rates from leading causes of death in persons aged 25-44 years, United States, 1982-1994. AIDS death rates steadily increased to become, in 1993, the leading cause of death in this age group. Credit: CDC. |  | Bar graph showing that infectious and parasitic diseases were the leading cause of death worldwide in 1993.. Credit: CDC. |
 | Bill Scaife leading his wife into Alaska Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Packing to the top - Bill Scaife leading the way up Triangulation party of William M. Scaife Upper Cook Inlet to Fairbanks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A spiral staircase leading down from the top of Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A southeastern view of East Cambridge as seen from the Warren Bridge leading into Charlestown. Glass factories are seen on the right; railroad cars on a viaduct are seen on the left. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Channel leading out from Punta Arenas, Chile, towards Cape Horn. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Photo #2 of sequence. The same view of Mauna Kea but panning to the right and showing the winding road leading to the Mauna Loa Observatory. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Autumn/Fall_6" by Simon Cataudo Commentary: "Views of a nearby lane leading to a Victorian park. Taken 11 November 2003." | "Stepping Up" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Steps leading up do a fenced athletic field at a suburban school." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Fletcher Knebel | It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. |
Lily Tomlin | Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. |
Lord Chesterfield | The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch." |
Oscar Wilde | Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life. |
| I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. | |
St. Jerome | An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We welcome Russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I feel sure, now, that the most absolute Atheist may be leading, though walking blindfold, a pure and noble life |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man was leading Cosette in the direction of Livry and Bondy |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | MacCann went briskly to and fro among the students, talking rapidly, answering rebuffs and leading one after another to the table |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Shall have the leading of this foot and horse |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Suddenly the leading policemen turned off the road into a wide graveled entrance |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | She often took me out of my box at my own desire, to give me air and show me the country, but always held me fast by a leading string |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is a leading cause of death. (references) | |
Is a leading cause of death and disability. (references) | ||
Optic atrophy may also occur, often leading to blindness. (references) | ||
Business | These are among Mexico’s leading crops. (references) | |
The following are leading shopping malls. (references) | ||
Other potential leading market portals are Portal. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | The ONDE continued to publish public service advertisements in leading publications. (references) |
Venezuela | Substandard conditions contribute to the increase in preventable diseases that are leading causes of infant mortality. (references) | |
Brazil | Homicide is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14, and only 1.9 percent of murderers are serving prison sentences. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Estonia | In March a publisher of the leading Russian daily, Estonia, was shot to death in Tallinn. (references) |
Indonesia | Aceh's leading daily newspaper, Serambi Indonesia, closed for a month beginning on August 11 after harassment from the GAM. (references) | |
Colombia | In September El Espectador, one of the two leading Bogota dailies, became a weekly newspaper due to financial difficulties. (references) | |
Economic History | Laos | FUEL IS THE LEADING IMPORT. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Oil and gas is the leading economic sector. (references) | |
El Salvador | ARENA is El Salvador's leading political party. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | In May 2000, armed gunmen seized Amin Lakhani, a leading Karachi businessman. (references) |
Colombia | Many more activists leave without coming to the Ministry of Interior or leading NGO's for assistance. (references) | |
Mali | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continued to visit imprisoned leading members of the former government. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Both AIDESEP and CONAP are critical of the 1995 land law, which permits Amazonian land to be bought and sold if no one is living on it or otherwise making use of it. Sendero Luminoso continued to be a leading violator of the rights of indigenous people. (references) |
Minorities | Romania | Ethnic Hungarians, officially numbering more than 1.6 million, constitute the largest and most vocal minority, and their UDMR party was the leading political partner for the ruling minority PSD Government during the year. (references) |
Mali | Longstanding tensions between the marginalized Moor and Tuareg pastoralist groups and the more populous nonpastoralist groups have been a leading source of political instability and violence, including the Tuareg rebellions of the early 1990's. On February 24, a group led by former army officer Ibrahim Bahanga, who was among the Tuareg rebels incorporated into the army after the rebellion in the 1990's, attacked the Gendarmerie and kidnaped 10 soldiers. (references) | |
Political Economy | Madagascar | Shrimp is the leading export. (references) |
Iceland | Aluminum is the second leading export. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The United National Party (UNP) is the leading opposition party. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Preliminary results showed that Gbagbo was leading by a significant margin. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The SDP is the leading party in the Federation Government that opposed the HDZ's separatist movement. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | At the same time, the High Representative removed three other HDZ officials leading the self-government effort. (references) | |
Trade | Kuwait | Several leading importers also have their own warehousing facilities. (references) |
Spain | Leading Spanish private companies and banks are listed on the stock market. (references) | |
Albania | Leading public sector projects involve road building and energy sector loans. (references) | |
Travel | Senegal | Malaria is a leading cause of death in the countryside. (references) |
Sri Lanka | In early March 2000, as many as 8 terrorists detonated bombs on a main Colombo highway leading to the parliament killing 25 and wounding dozens. (references) | |
Oman | In terms of business customs, while most leading businessmen are accustomed to Western business practices, some still operate along more traditional Arab lines. (references) | |
Women | Georgia | Spousal abuse is reportedly one of the leading causes of divorce. (references) |
China | Research indicates that the low economic and social status of women is among the leading causes. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | Representation of women is significantly lower in the higher levels of the work force, and there are few women in leading business positions. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | The CPT is the leading NGO working to identify and eradicate forced labor. (references) |
Paraguay | Union organizers sometimes are jailed for their role in leading demonstrations. (references) | |
Bolivia | Some of the fraud leading to involuntary servitude originates within the country. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. Jared Oopf |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Quaid | I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. A leading man just happens to be another character. |
Rush Limbaugh | President Bush is now leading a worldwide war against terrorism, focused presently on bin Laden, al Qaeda, and their Taliban sponsors. |
Yitzhak Rabin | I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. I appreciate the Chairman Arafat for his courage to take the decision to enter into negotiations with us. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | At Mobile Point and Dauphin Island, and at the Rigolets, leading to Lake Pontchartrain, materials to a considerable amount have been collected, and all the necessary preparations made for the commencement of the works. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | If this reasonable expectation be not realized, I frankly confess that one of your leading hopes is doomed to disappointment, and that my efforts in a very important particular must result in a humiliating failure. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Many leading businessmen have recognized the importance of such action both to themselves and to the economy as a whole. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The strained relationship between us and the world's leading Communist power has not ended-especially in the light of the brutal invasion of Czechoslovakia. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As President I hold the responsibility for choosing the best path to that goal and then leading the Nation along it. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I hope that my Administration will be remembered in this area for leading the way toward full civil rights for handicapped Americans. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | With our alliances strengthened, with our economy leading the world to a new age of economic expansion, we look forward to a world rich in possibilities. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led, rewarding. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For leading our Millennium Project, for all she's done for our children, for all she has done in her historic role to serve our nation and our best ideals at home and abroad, I honor her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Leading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.15% of the time. "Leading" is used about 9,612 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 54.15% | 5,204 | 1,881 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 45.82% | 4,404 | 2,221 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,612 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Leading Spirit High-Tech (Holdings) Company Limited | USA | Leading Edge Packaging, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "leading": bonnet leading edge reference line ♦ fin leading edge deicing ♦ hold in leading strings ♦ in leading reins ♦ in leading strings ♦ leading actor ♦ leading actress ♦ leading aircraftman ♦ Leading Aircraftsman ♦ leading article ♦ leading astray ♦ leading bank ♦ leading candidate ♦ Leading case ♦ leading character ♦ leading country ♦ leading distributor ♦ leading edge ♦ leading edge deicing air ducts ♦ leading edge fence ♦ leading edge flap ♦ leading edge of pulse train ♦ leading exporter ♦ leading figure ♦ leading group ♦ leading horses ♦ leading importer ♦ leading indicator ♦ leading lady ♦ leading light ♦ leading man ♦ leading manufacturer ♦ leading motive ♦ leading newspaper ♦ Leading note ♦ leading off ♦ leading part ♦ leading product ♦ leading question ♦ leading ram ♦ Leading Rating ♦ leading rein ♦ leading reins ♦ leading role ♦ leading seaman ♦ leading shoot ♦ leading singer ♦ Leading strings ♦ leading subunit ♦ leading sweep of propeller ♦ leading tone ♦ leading underwriter's agreement ♦ leading verb ♦ leading voice ♦ Leading wheel ♦ leading zeros ♦ slat of the leading edge ♦ the blind leading the blind ♦ the leading part ♦ To be in leading strings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "leading": leading-edge, leading-edges, leading-note, leading-notes, leading-rein, leading-role. | |
Ending with "leading": class-leading, market-leading, voice-leading. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "leading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prijës (cacique, chief, chieftain, head, headman), kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i kreut (fore, head, uppermost), drejtues (administrator, conductor, foremost, front-bencher, governing, head, leader, managerial, managing, mentor, pilot, supervisor). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهم (important, in the first flight, main, paramount, remarkable, serious, signify, sizable, substantial), نجم (luminary, star, superstar), قيادي (commanding), قيادة (command, conduct, control, direction, drive, driving, guidance, lead, leadership, steer, steerage), توجيه (control, directing, direction, guidance, orientation, steering, training), الإفتتاحية (editorial), أفضل (best, better, preferable, right, superior, top), أمامي (advance, anterior, fore, forward, front, frontal), أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръководен (directional, directorial, directory, general, governing, key), челен (foremost, frontal, head, headmost), главен (arterial, capital, chief, decuman, general, grand, head, high, magistral, main, major, master, pivotal, premier, primary, prime, principal, stellar), водещ (anchorman, fetid, master), насочващ, навеждащ, най-важен (central, essential, foremost, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, supreme), задвижващ, пръв (first, foremost, maiden, major, opening, premier, primordial), преден (advance, advanced, anterior, fore, forward, front, frontal, head, preceding, previous), изтъкнат (distinguished, eminent, high ranking, notable, outstanding, prominent, ranking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 領導 (lead, leadership, to lead), 带领 (headed, led). (various references) | |
Czech | vedoucí (chief, executive, guide, head, leader, manager, supervisor), vùdèí (governing, guiding), významný (eminent, expressive, important, meaningful, notable, relevant, significant), první (bottom, first, foremost, front, premier, prime), hlavní (big, capital city, Cardinal, chief, decuman, essential, magistral, main, major, prime, principal, staple, star), èelný (major). (various references) | |
Danish | leading, profileret, forblyning (lead coating). (various references) | |
Dutch | toongevend, toonaangevend, leidend. (various references) | |
Esperanto | direktanta. (various references) | |
Finnish | johtaminen (conduction, derivation), heilunta eteen. (various references) | |
French | important, avant (fore leg), déphasé en avant, de haut niveau, de premier plan, dirigeante, éditorial (leader), hautement qualifié, susceptible de faire procéder, meilleur, mouvement déphasé en avant, plombage (lead coating), prépondérant, principal, profil, en tête (lead, letterhead). (various references) | |
German | führend (forefront, foremost, guiding, managerial, master, prominent). (various references) | |
Greek | κύριοσ (capital, chief, dominant, esquire, gentleman, liege, main, master, monsignor, mr, principal, proper, seignior), κορυφαίος (apical, top), πρωταγωνιστών, ηγετικόσ, ηγετικός (chief, principal), επιμολύβδωση (lead coating), αρχηγία (captaincy, captainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, leadership), οδηγών, οδηγία (conduct, directive, guidance, guideline, instruction, prescription), διατομή (bisection, intersection, segmentation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוביל (carrier, conductor, conveyor, funnel, guide), עקרי (capital, central, fundamental, main, major, pivotal, preponderant, primary, principal, staple, substantial), ראשי (capital, chief, main, major, paramount, primary, principal, staple, top), נהיגה (conducting, control, driving), נהול (conduct, conducting, direction, management), נהוג (conducting, customary, driven, driving, led, piloting, steerage, usual). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ólmozás, vezetés (administrative control, captaincy, command, conduct, control, driving, governance, guidance, helm, lead, leadership, management, running), víz-odavezetés, ritkítás (rarefaction, spacing), parancsnokság (captaincy, comdt, command, commandant, headquarters, hq, leadership), parancsnoklás, példakép (beau ideal, exemplar, ideal, mirror), odavezetés, jelentős (heavy, important, pregnant, purposeful, remarkable, significant), irányítás (administration, command, control, direction, governance, guidance, helm, lead, leadership, line of conduct, navigation, running), igazgatás (administration, conduct, direction, ruling), fő (chief, leader, preoccupation, primal, prime, to brew, to cook, to seethe, to stew), eldugulás (block, choking, engorgement, obstruction, obturating, obturation, occlusion), ólommal kitöltés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembimbingan. (various references) | |
Italian | sfasato in avanti, profilo (contour, outline, profile, sketch), principale (boss, capital, chief, employer, foremost, grand, head, main, major, manager, master, overriding, primal, primary, prime, principal, staple, uppermost), primo (at first, best, chief, early, first, foremost, former, maiden, main, next, premier, primary, prime, principal, top), primario (guiding, head physician, main, paramount, primal, primary, prime), piombatura (plumbing), moto di anticipo, eminente (distinguished, eminent, foremost), dominante (dominant, dominating, prevailing, ruling), anticipato (premature). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 誘導 (guidance, incitement, inducement, induction, introduction). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リーディング (reading), くっし (foremost, one of the best, outstanding, preeminent), しょうどう (advocacy, converting someone to Buddhism, impulse, urge), せんたんてき (ultramodern), せんしゅけん (champion, right of preoccupancy, top-rank), いんそつ (commanding), あんない (guidance, information), ゆびおり (eminent, prominent), ゆうすう (prominent), ゆうどう (guidance, incitement, inducement, induction, introduction). (various references) | |
Korean | 지도 (guidance, lead, map). (various references) | |
Manx | leeideil (captain, captain as team, conduct, direct, lead). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ledende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eadinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | entrelinhas, avanço (access, advance, advancement, antecedent, drive, ongoings, onrush, progress, rush, start), chefia (command, direction, guidance, headship, leadership, management, streamline, supervision), comando (behest, bidding, captaincy, charge, command, commando, conduct, energy, leadership, mastery, order, power, tune-up), condução (conveyance, driving, transport), conducente (conducive), condutor (check-taker, conducting, conductor, conveyance, deferent, driver, flex, guard, keynote, leader), adiantamento (advance, advance money, forwardness, progress), direção (address, channel, conduct, control, course, direction, drift, lay, line, management, march, rein, running, steering wheel, streamline, superintendence, supervision, trend, tune-up, way), tentador (appetizing, seductive, tempter, tempting), importante (big, capital, distinguish, golden, grand, grave, great, high, important, keynote, momentous, necessary, ponderous, purposeful, relevant, serious, significant, solemn, substantial, weighty), influência (account, action, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, contact, domination, energy, inspiration, leverage, power, prestige, purchase, weight, yeast), orientação (bearings, conduct, departure, exposure, orientation, superintendence), perfil do dente (tooth form), primeiro (early, first, fore, forehand, foremost, former, initial, origin, preparative, primal, primary, prime), principal (boss, broad, cardinal, central, chief, essential, firm in one's principles, first, flyaway, foremost, head, high, highlight, keynote, king, main, major, master, parent, pivotal, preparative, primal, principal, slip-on, substantial), sedutor (alluring, betrayer, bewitching, enticing, lovelace, lovely, magnetic, seductive, siren, winning, winsome, witching), conduzir (bring, carry, conduce, conduct, drive, guide, head, lead, manage, officer, run, steer, take, transmit, transport). (various references) | |
Romanian | sugestie (call, hint, idea, intimation, proposal, suggestion), principal (broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, main, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), preponderent (predominant, preponderant, prepotent, prevalent), instrucţiune (charge, commission, direction, directive, line, precept), dirijare (conduct, control, directing), diriguitor (guiding), directivã (cue, dictate, direction, directions, directive, directives), de prima importanţã (main), conducere (administration, conduct, control, direction, directorate, driving, governance, government, guidance, helm, lead, leadership, management, mastership, scepter, sceptre, steerage, superintendence, sway), conducãtor (captain, chief, commander, commanding, conductor, directive, fugleman, governor, guide, head, leader, man at the wheel, manager, master, principal, ruler, ruling, superintendent, superior, transmitting), cãlãuzitor (directing, guiding), îndrumare (advice, direction, guidance). (various references) | |
Russian | руководящий (governing, hegemonic, managing), ведущий (homeward, host, key note, leader, master of ceremonies, narrator, principal), наводящий, передовой (advanced, advancer, far out, foremost, forward, front-rank, headmost, industry-leading, innovative), двигательный (locomotive, locomotor, motional, motive, motor, propeller). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vodeći (chief, flight: in the first flight, guiding, headmost), sugestivan (suggestive), rukovodeći, prvi (first, initial, maiden, premier, prime, primus, principal), glavni (arch, basic, capital, cardinal, chief, general, head, key, magistral, main, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, salient, trunk). (various references) | |
Spanish | líder (leader), dirigente (canceller, directing, leader), índice (card index, contents, index, indication, leader, qualifier, rating, superscript, table), artículo de fondo (editorial, editorials, leader, leading article), avance (advance, advance payment, advanced, attack, development, drive, lead, looting, preview, progress, seaway, thrust, trailer), cabecilla (chieftain, leader, ringleader), caudillo (boss, caudillo, chief, chieftain, leader), conducción (conduction, driving, handling), conductor (cable, calipers, callipers, conduct, conductor, driver, lead, leader, motorist), cuadrillero, de ataque (aggressive), de fondo (background, long distance, upstage), delantero (fore, foremost, forward, front, head), desfasado avanzado, acción líder (leader), director (chief executive, collocutor, conductor, director, editor, editress, executive, governor, guv, head, headman, leader, manager, master, officer, president, principal, provost, rector), sobresaliente (banner, conspicuous, distinction, exuberant, leaded, outstanding, palmary, protruding, protrusive, salient, substitute, topflight), editorial (editorial, leader, leading article, publishing house), emplomado (leaded), emplomadura (filling), guía (beacon, enchiridion, exhibitor, guide, guidebook, handbook, interpreter, leader, pilot, reference book, timetable), importante (big, consequential, considerable, deferent, essential, great, important, important thing, large, respectable, serious, significant, sizable, sizeable, top, valuable, weighty), indicador (detector, Gage, gauge, indicator, indicatory, leader, pointer, register, telltale, trace), inductivo (inductive), inicial (inceptive, incipient, initial, lead, low), perfil (hairstroke, outline, profile, section, shape, skyline), primer violín (leader), primero (Aa, capital, chief, early, first, first of all, firstly, foremost, former, front, head, immediate, initial, leader, low, lower, maiden, opening, original, outermost, overriding, premier, primary, prime, top), principal (arch, capital, Cardinal, chief, chief officer, foremost, grand, great, head, high-end, immediate, large, lead, main, major, most important, predominant, preferred, primal, prime, principal, staple, star, top, trunk, uppermost), destacado (drafted, famous, great, important, lurid, outstanding, prominent, salient, towering, well known). (various references) | |
Swedish | ledande (chief, conduction, conductive, directive, directorial, directory, governing, managing, ranking, top). (various references) | |
Thai | ชั้นนำ, สำคัญ (arch, chief, great, key, material, red-hot), สิ่งที่ทำขอบด้วยตะกั่ว, การเป็นผู้นำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ileri gelen (doctor, high-up, magnate, notable, top-line, topliner), başlıca (Cardinal, chiefly, essential, largely, main, mainly, major, mostly, primarily, primary, prime, principally, ruling, staple), ana (basic, broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, main, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, primary, principal, principle, staple), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, weighty, worthy), önde olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | управління (administration, agency, authority, control, department, dispensation, disposal, governance, gubernation, guidance, leadership, management, office, ordering, presidence, regimen, regiment, ruling, steerage, stewardship, superintendence), керівництво (direction, governance, guidance, headship, lead, leadership, presidence), керівний (chief, governing, guiding, high-level, managing), головний (arch-, basal, basic, broad, capital, captain, cephalic, chief, governing, grand, head, master, overriding, premier, pr |
