Lead vs Load - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum ).
(countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
(uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading .
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
:* I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. —
(countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
(slang) Bullets; ammunition.
To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
(printing) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
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#To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
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#*:If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch.
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#*:They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill.
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:In thy right hand lead with thee / The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
#To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of.instructions. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler.
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#*:The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way.
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#*:He leadeth me beside the still waters.
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:This thought might lead me through the world’s vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
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, title= #To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party; to command, especially a military or business unit.
#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
#*:Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places.
#To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
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#*:That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.
#*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson),
#*:Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse / A life that leads melodious days.
#*1849-50 , (Charles Dickens), ''(David Copperfield), Chapter 61
#*:You rememberthe life he used to lead his wife and daughter.
(label) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
(label) To begin, to be ahead.
#(label) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
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#*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w)
#*:As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.
#*(Leigh Hunt) (1784-1859)
#*:And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
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#(label) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
#(label) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
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## To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps.
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##(label) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
##(label) To have the highest interim score in a game.
##(label) To step off base and move towards the next base.
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##(label) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
(label) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
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*:He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions.
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*:Silly women, laden with sins, led away by divers lusts.
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, title= (label) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
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*:The mountain-foot that leads towards Mantua.
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(uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
:* At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead , . . . I am sure I did my country important service. — (Edmund Burke)
(uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat’s length, or of half a second; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
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(countable) a metallic wire for electrical devices and equipments
(baseball) When a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown
(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
(countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
(countable, mining) A lode.
(nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
In a steam engine, The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
* Usage note : When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.
charging lead
(civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
(horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. — Claudias Saunier
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
(marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
(curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
(newspapers) A teaser; a lead in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
(engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
(music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
(not comparable) Foremost.
A burden; a weight to be carried.
(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .
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A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
(in combination)
(often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
The volume of work required to be performed.
(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
(engineering) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
(obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 172:
A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
The charge of powder for a firearm.
(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
(vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
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* 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust ,
To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
To put a load on something.
To receive a load.
To be placed into storage or conveyance.
To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
To be put into use in an apparatus.
(computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
(computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
(baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
To encumber with something negative.
To place as an encumbrance.
To provide in abundance.
(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
(archaic) To magnetize.
In transitive terms the difference between lead and load
is that lead is to draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause while load is to provide in abundance.In intransitive terms the difference between lead and load
is that lead is to tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place while load is to be put into use in an apparatus.In engineering terms the difference between lead and load
is that lead is the axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts while load is the work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.As an adjective lead
is foremost.lead
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leed, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology suggests the possibility that Proto-Germanic *laud?'' may derive from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines.
- They pumped him full of lead .
Derived terms
* arm the lead * acetate of lead * black lead * blue lead * cast the lead, heave the lead * chromate of lead * coasting lead * cold lead * deep-sea lead * eka-lead * go down like a lead balloon * hand lead * lap in lead * lay in lead * lead accumulator * lead acetate * lead-acid battery * lead-arming * lead arsenate * lead-ash, lead-ashes * lead-back * lead balloon * lead-bath * lead-blue * lead bronze * lead-brown * lead bullion * lead-burn * lead burning * lead carbonate * lead cell * lead chamber * lead chloride * lead colic * lead color, lead colour * lead-colored, lead-coloured * lead-comb * lead crystal * lead dichloride * lead dinitrate * lead dioxide * lead distemper * lead-eater * leaded * lead encephalopathy * lead-flat * lead-foot * lead-free * lead glance * lead glass * lead-glaze * lead-gray, lead-grey * lead hydrogen arsenate * lead in one's pencil * lead iodide * lead-light * lead-like * lead line * lead-man * lead-marcasite * lead mill * lead-nail * lead nitrate * lead ocher, lead ochre * lead oxide * lead paint * lead palsy * lead-paper * lead-papered * lead paralysis * lead pencil * lead plant * lead-plaster * lead peroxide * lead-pot * lead-poisoning * lead ratio * lead-reeve * lead selenide * lead-sinker * leadsman * lead-soap * lead-spar * lead-sugar * lead sulfide, lead sulphide * lead-swing * lead-swinger * lead-swinging * lead tetraethyl * lead tetroxide * lead-tin * lead-tree * lead vanadate * lead-vitriol * lead-wash * lead-water * lead wool * lead-work * lead-works * lead-wort * mock lead * pencil lead * red lead * red lead ore * sugar of lead * swing the lead * telluride of lead * tetraethyl lead * thorium lead * throw the lead * unleaded * uranium lead * uranium-lead dating * white leadVerb
(en verb)Usage notes
Note carefully these two senses are verbs derived from the noun referring to the metallic element, and are unrelated to the heteronym defined below under .See also
* anglesite * aplomb * cerussite * galena * litharge * plumb * plumb-, plumbo- * plumbagin * plumbago * plumballophane * plumbane * plumbary * plumbate * plumbator * plumb dulcis * plumbean * plumbeous * plumber * plumbian * plumbic * plumbicon * plumbiferous * plumbine * plumbing * plumbism * plumbisolvency * plumbisolvent * plumbite * plumb-joint * plumbless * plumbly * plumbous * plumby * plummet * TELExternal links
* (wikipedia "lead")Etymology 2
(Lead off) From (etyl) leden, from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "to lead") * belead * inlead * lead astray * lead captive * leader * leading * lead the way * mislead * offlead * onlead * outlead * overlead * take the lead * underleadNoun
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- The runner took his lead from first.
- The investigation stalled when all leads turned out to be dead ends.
- Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry.
Usage notes
Note that these noun (attributive) uses are all derived from the verb, not the chemical element in .Derived terms
(terms derived from the noun "lead") * bury the lead * lead angle * lead in * lead role * lead screw * take the leadAdjective
(-)- The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.
Synonyms
* (foremost) first, front, head, leader, leadingEtymology 3
Verb
(head)References
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* * * * * English heteronyms English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----load
English
Noun
(en noun)- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
- Our life's a load .
- I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
- The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
- She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- I got a load of emails about that.
- Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
- Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
- If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
- (Milton)
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- Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
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- It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
Synonyms
* charge, freightDerived terms
* seeVerb
- The dock workers refused to load the ship.
- The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
- He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
- ''The truck is designed to load easily.
- The containers load quickly and easily .
- I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
- The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
- The cartridge was designed to load easily.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
- This program takes an age to load .
- He walks to load the bases.
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
- The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
- The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
- The new owners loaded debt on the company.
- He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
- He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
- to load wine
- (Prior)