leader
IPA: ɫˈidɝ
noun
- Any person who leads or directs.
- One who goes first.
- One having authority to direct.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- An animal that leads.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- Someone or something that leads or conducts.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (cinematography, dated) An intertitle.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.
- A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.
- A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.
- A locality in Adams County, Colorado, United States.
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Examples of "leader" in Sentences
- The people followed the leader.
- The follower stands facing the leader.
- The head of the Judiciary system is appointed by the leader.
- He was the leader of the brigade, the head trader and overall CEO.
- If your leader is the Grand Dragon rather than the President – maybe.
- Hey, lets fight terrorism but tell the world our leader is a liar. mjm
- The following day the leaders at the GPO decided to negotiate surrender.
- At the time the leader was Lucas Mangope, an aging and autocratic leader.
- The follower observes the decision of the leader and chooses his quantity.
- The leader of the town was killed, but no massacre or enslavement followed.
- But the leader of the group has lied to his followers, as he is no pacifist.
- Alliance leaders do not need to worry much about the faithfulness of followers.
- Strick van Linschoten also said Isaf's definition of the word leader was "so broad as to be meaningless".
- Even better, the title leader and rival to the Mexican, Pastor Maldonado failed to finish in today's race and earned no points.
- The use of the word 'leader' is intended to convey the impression that the masterminds of the Taliban are being taking off the battlefield.
- Indeed so regularly is the phrase "leader of the pack" mentioned when describing him, you half expect to hear a Harley‑Davidson engine raspily rev up and cue in The Shangri-Las.
- As implied by the bands of light red and light blue ( "confidence intervals") drawn around each line, these trend lines can be used to generate probabilities that the leader is actually ahead at any point of the line, including Election Day.
- Respecting a leader is important, trusting a leader is another, having the confidence that leader can work for all sides and compromise the issues so one side doesn't feel over run in the process is where that leader can make or break a city ..
- Apart from the clear failure to understand what the word 'leader' actually means, this is almost always only an excuse for inaction, which lets the financial sector off the hook while public services are slashed, the poor get poorer and the world heats up.