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Headed vs Led - What's the difference?

headed | led |

As verbs the difference between headed and led

is that headed is past tense of head while led is past tense of lead.

As an adjective headed

is having a head or heading.

As a noun LED is

light-emitting diode.

headed

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(head)
  • Having a head or heading.
  • Going towards a certain direction.
    • Southward headed caravans
  • (of paper) Having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top.
  • (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics.
    • Derived terms
    * fair-headed * fairheaded * wrong-headed * wrongheaded

    Etymology 2

    See (head) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (head)
    • Smith headed the team last summer

    led

    English

    (wikipedia LED)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • light-emitting diode

    • See also

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) ----