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Headline vs Lede - What's the difference?

headline | lede |

As nouns the difference between headline and lede

is that headline is a heading or title of an article while lede is a man; person.

As a verb headline

is to have top billing; to be the main attraction.

headline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heading or title of an article.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
  • (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.
  • (nautical) A headrope.

    • Synonyms

    * (heading) hed * (top-billed attraction) headliner

    Related terms

    (heading) * byline * dateline

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (headlin)
  • (entertainment) To have top billing; to be the main attraction

    • Derived terms

    * headliner

    lede

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lede, leode, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (lede)
  • A man; person.
  • Men; people, folk.
  • * 2012 , Yahoo! Canada Answers - Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?:
    • If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.
  • A people or nation.
  • Tenements]]; holdings; [[possession, possessions.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (Lede paragraph) Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of (lead) (reverting to its archaic, phonetic spelling – compare below), intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame.WOTD 2000 Compare .

    Alternative forms

    * lead

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory]] [[paragraph, paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "lede")
    Usage notes
    Usage seems mostly confined to the U.S.Current citations in Wiktionary, listed ). In 1990, William Safire was still able to say that "lede" was jargon not listed in regular dictionaries.Safire 1990: "You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. [...] Will ''lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? [... To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing"
    Derived terms
    * bury the lede * lede to kum * nulede

    See also

    *

    References

    * William Safire (1990), "On Language; (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)", New York Times , November 18, 1990, Nytimes.com * WOTD (2000), "The Maven's Word of the Day: lede", November 28, 2000, www.randomhouse.com * Notes:

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