Lead On

Definition: Lead On

Lead On

Verb

1. Entice or induce esp. when unwise or mistaken.

2. Be false to; be dishonest with.

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

Synonyms: Lead On

Direction

Verb: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle

Crosswords: Lead On

Turkish, put a lead on him. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Lead on. (Arachnophobia; writing credit: Don Jakoby; Al Williams)

Lead on! (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

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Books

• Lead On, Snoopy (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Boatswain John Janke Casting the lead on the WILDCAT. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Men of Destroyer Division 91 crowd the foc'sle and superstructure of their ships in Sasebo, Japan, to receive their Navy Unit Commendations. During the presentation on the Mansfield, a crane crew in the background continues its task of installing new gun barrels on the De Haven. Streaks of red lead on the Collett and the Swenson in the foreground show the work that has occupied all the crews while in port. By coincidence the famed 'Sitting Duck' destroyers are berthed in their numerical order: USS De Haven (DD-727), Mansfield (DD-728), Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), and Collett (DD-730)." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 18 December 1951. Credit: NAVY.

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know.

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Business

The East Asian countries lead on the cost and shipment time fronts. (references)

Within Korea, the Ministry of Government and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) has the lead on disaster-related issues although many program responsibilities and procurements cut across the bureaucratic spectrum from the federal, provincial, and local levels. (references)

Economic History

Paraguay

Its foreign policy has followed closely the Rio Group's lead on many issues of wideranging political importance. (references)

Yemen

The Ministry of Civil Service has the lead on anticorruption issues and has set up an Executive Committee to address the issue. (references)

West Bank

Within certain parameters, this document gives the PA the lead on trade, investment, internal transportation and infrastructure, banking, industry, taxation, and other economic and commercial issues. (references)

Worker Rights

Macedonia

The Interior Ministry's Department on Organized Crime has the lead on antitrafficking efforts and devotes two persons to the issue full-time. (references)

India

The NGO community has taken the lead on prevention, protection, and prosecution of trafficking and has a mixed record in securing the cooperation of the state and local police. (references)

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Expression using "lead on": lead on orchestra. Additional references.

Albanian

tregoj rrugën (conduct), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أغرى (addict, bait, beckon, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo). (various references)

Bulgarian 

водя напред, поощрявам (abet, bring on, cultivate, encourage, pander, promote, push, stimulate), подвеждам (bring under, mislead, reduce, stuff, throw off). (various references)

Chinese 

爰 (therefore, to lead on to). (various references)

Czech

zlákat (draw in), zavést (adopt, bring up, carry, download, inaugurate, introduce, warp). (various references)

Danish

de metaboliske forandringer skyldes den konstriktive virkning af bly paa nyrens vaevsstruktur (the metabolic changes are due to the constrictive effect of the lead on the vascular structures of the kidney). (various references)

Dutch

de metabolische veranderingen worden veroorzaakt door de konstrictorische werking van het lood op de vasculaire struktuur van de nier (the metabolic changes are due to the constrictive effect of the lead on the vascular structures of the kidney). (various references)

French

donner de faux espoirs. (various references)

German

weiterführen (carry on, continue, pursue, take up, to carry on), hinters licht führen (mystify, play along), aufziehen (arrange, back, breed, bring up, come up, draw back, draw up, educate, foster, haul up, hoist, hoist up, Josh, kid, let up, make fun of, march up, mother, Mount, mounting, pull open, pull up, put on, rag, raise, ravel out, razz, rear, set up, slip on, strech, stretch, tease, to razz, to twit, to wind up, twit, uncork, undo, unravel, untie, wind, wind up, zoom out), auf den arm nehmen (pull smb.'s leg), anführen (adduce, captain, cite, give, have smb. on, head, indicate with quotation marks, lead, name, quote, refer to, take smb. for a ride, to adduce). (various references)

Greek 

οι μεταβολικές αλλαγές οφείλονται στη συστολική δράση του μολύ-βδου πάνω στο αγγειακό δίκτυο των νεφρών (the metabolic changes are due to the constrictive effect of the lead on the vascular structures of the kidney). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתות (decoy, gull, inveigle, lure, solicit, suborn, tempt). (various references)

Hungarian

vezet (administer, boss, conduct, control, direct, drive, govern, guide, have the best of the running, have the lead, head, lead, led, to boss, to conduct, to guide, to lead, to lead on, to lead the field, to marshal, to minister to, to pilot, to supervise, to transmit), kísér (accompany, chaperon, company, consort, to accompany, to attend, to chaperon, to chaperone, to escort, to lead on, to squire). (various references)

Italian

fuorviare (mislead). (various references)

Manx

y volley. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadlay onay

Portuguese

triturar (basil, bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegrate, mash, masticate, mill, pound, powder, scrunch, spall, talcum, triturate), reduzir a purê, esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm). (various references)

Romanian

arãta drumul (lead). (various references)

Russian 

увлечь (infatuate), завлекать (decoy, entice, lure), подстрекать (abet, edge on, egg on, foment, halloo, incite, instigate, pick a quarrel, poach, set on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavaravati (deceive, trick), navesti (adduce, bring up, cite, induce, lead, maneuver, manoeuvre, persuade, plead, prompt, quote, suggest), mamiti (allure, entice, lure). (various references)

Spanish

tirar de la lengua, ser jefe (top), seducir (allure, attract, beguile, debauch, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt), ir primero (go before, lead), ir dando esperanzas a, ir a la cabeza, interesar (appeal, attract, bear on, captivate, interest, intrigue), halagar (blandish, butter up, cajole, coax, flatter, please, show affection to), hacer hablar a, engatusar (cajole, coax, draw on, get round, hoodwink, jolly, palaver, vamp, wheedle), encoñar, encabezar (domineer, fortify, generalize, head, lead, swing the lead, top), coquetear con, complacer (accommodate, humor, humour, indulge, meet with, oblige, pander to, please, satisfy). (various references)

Swedish

locka (allure, appeal to, bait, beguile, call, curl, entice, entire, inveigle, lure, tantalise, tantalize, tempt, wheedle, woo), förleda (betray, delude, entice, entrap, mislead, seduce, tempt, wheedle), föra bakom ljuset. (various references)

Turkish

kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), götürmek (bear, bear away, carry, carry away, conduce, get, guide, lead, put across, remove, take, take away, take off, usher, whip off), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), önde gitmek (go ahead, lead). (various references)

Ukrainian

примусити піти далі, повести. (various references)

lacta, lactabant, lactaberis, lactabo, lactans, lactantem, lactantes, lactantibus, lactantis, lactantium, lactaret, lactat, lactatum, lactatus, lactaverint, lactaverunt, lactavit. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loaned.

-1 letter: alone, anode, anole, eland, laden, loden, naled, nodal, olden.

-2 letters: aeon, aloe, dale, deal, dean, dole, dona, done, elan, enol, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, leno, load, loan, lode, lone, node, noel, odea, olea.

-3 letters: ado, ale, and, ane, dal, del, den, doe, dol, don, eld, end, eon, lad, lea, led, nae.

+1 letter: celadon, ladrone, taloned.

+2 letters: anglepod, banderol, blazoned, bondable, canoodle, celadons, colander, conelrad, delation, duodenal, enhaloed, foreland, headlong, homeland, ladrones, lemonade, lentando, longhead, melanoid, nonideal, oleander, overland, palinode, reloaned, solander, undoable, unloaded, unloader.

+3 letters: adenoidal, alongside, andouille, anecdotal, aneuploid, anglepods, ankylosed, balconied, ballooned, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, canoodled, canoodles, chlordane, clangored, clarioned, colanders, coleading, colonnade, concealed, conelrads, conflated, congealed, dandelion, dealation, decathlon, deflation, defoliant, delations, demonical, denominal, detonable, downscale, ealdorman, ealdormen, elongated, endoplasm, endosteal, fanfolded, farandole, forelands, genocidal, girandole, gladstone, hobnailed, homelands, insolated, lampooned, lancewood, landowner, lemonades, lidocaine, loadstone, longheads, lowlander, mandoline, medaillon, medallion, melanoids, montadale, nonleaded, oleanders, outlander, overladen, overlands, palinodes, panoplied, planeload, planetoid, platooned, reloading, roundelay, solanders, soundable, toenailed, unalloyed, uncloaked, unloaders, videoland, volplaned.