English Dictionary

leader

/ˈliː.də(ɹ)/

noun

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.

The leader of the expedition bravely led the team through the treacherous terrain.

意味（1）

One who goes first.

Follow the leader.

意味（2）

One having authority to direct.

We elected her team leader.

意味（3）

One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

Leader of the House of Commons

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A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.

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(music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.

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(music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.

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The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.

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an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs

Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.

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Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

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(botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.

A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a telephone pole.

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A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.

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(UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.

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(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.

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(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.

If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.

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(cinematography, dated) An intertitle.

The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.

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(marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.

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(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

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(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.

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(fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower

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(mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

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(nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

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(engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.

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(meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.