To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
To be in command of. (See also head up.)
To form a head.
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
To move in a specified direction.
To check or restrain.
To remove the head from a fish.
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To cut off the top of; to lop off.
To set on the head.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
The uppermost part of a valley.
The antlers of a deer.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
The headstock of a guitar.
The leafy top part of a tree.
The top edge of a sail.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
The toilet of a ship.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
Headway; progress.
Mind; one's own thoughts.
Topic; subject.
The end of an abscess where pus collects.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The glans penis.
The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
A headmaster or headmistress.
Denouement; crisis.
The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Leader; chief; mastermind.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
An individual person.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
The bow of a vessel.
A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
The population of game.
The principal melody or theme of a piece.
A single animal.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
A headland.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
Coming from in front.
Placed at the top or the front.
Foremost in rank or importance.
To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
To direct; to counsel; to instruct
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
To step off base and move towards the next base.
To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
Lead climb.
To produce (with to).
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
To place leads between the lines of.
To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
To have the highest interim score in a game.
To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
To live or experience (a particular way of life).
To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
To begin a game, round, or trick, with
Foremost.
Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
bullets; ammunition.
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
A lode.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
The course of a rope from end to end.
The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
A channel of open water in an ice field.
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)