Leading
['liːdɪŋ] or ['lidɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way; 'we rode in the leading car'; 'the leading edge of technology' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; 'our greatest statesmen'; 'the country's leading poet'; 'a preeminent archeologist' .
Checker: Terrance--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
(a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.
(n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.
(n.) Suggestion; hint; example.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Governing, ruling.[2]. Chief, principal, capital, most important.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LEAD]
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- The leading idea was different from customary muckraking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The wiser course to take was to dismiss the idea of the opium from his mind, by leading him insensibly to think of something else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- All others belonging to him have gone to the Power and the Glory, and I have a mind that they're drawing him to them--leading him away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That generalization was a presupposition of the calculations leading to the discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But worst of all, the door leading to the pits where I had hidden my Princess was ajar. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He also visited Rome, where he was received with the greatest good-will by Pope Paul V and his cardinals, and where he met the leading scientists of the capital. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The result of moisture in the interior of a magnet is to weaken the effectiveness of the installation, leading eventually to short circuits and burn-outs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They have been leading her astray for years. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Now compress the artery leading from the organ, and the part between the heart and the point of pressur e, and the heart itself, become distended and take on a deep purple color. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her friends leading her astray for years! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Then I saw him at Throope Corner, leading one home, said Venn drily. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was followed by the plank leading from a lower to a higher level, by the ladder, and finally by the stairway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Spence