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Leade vs Lease - What's the difference?

leade | lease |

As nouns the difference between leade and lease

is that leade is that portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling while lease is falsehood; a lie or lease can be an open pasture or common or lease can be a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or lease can be the place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

As a verb lease is

(chiefly dialectal) to gather or lease can be to tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate or lease can be to release; let go; unloose or lease can be to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).

As an adjective lease is

false; lying; deceptive.

leade

English

Noun

(head)
  • That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
  • * 2004 , Tom A. Warlow, Firearms, The Law And Forensic Ballistics , page 117
    • The bullet must then jump some distance before it enters the leade of the rifling in the barrel. There is always some tendency for skidding to occur before the rifling fully engages [....]

    Anagrams

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    lease

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • (chiefly dialectal) to gather.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • false; lying; deceptive
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • falsehood; a lie

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an open pasture or common
  • *1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
  • *:Since as a child I used to lie
  • *:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
  • *:Never, I own, expected I
  • *:That life would all be fair.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To release; let go; unloose.

    • Etymology 6

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
  • To take or hold by lease.
  • To grant a lease; to let or rent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
  • The period of such a contract
  • A leasehold

    • Related terms

    * lessor, lessee

    Etymology 7

    From (leash)

    Noun

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

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