leading

[Lead·ing]

Going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way

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Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.

Noun
the activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team"

Noun
thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

Adjective
going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way; "we rode in the leading car"; "the leading edge of technology"

Adjective S.
purposefully formulated to elicit a desired response; "a leading question"

Adjective S.
having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race"

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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.


Leading

Lead"ing , a. Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- Lead"ing*ly, adv. Leading case (Law), a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. Abbott. -- Leading motive [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. -- Leading note (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale; the sensible note. -- Leading question, a question so framed as to guide the person questioned in making his reply. -- Leading strings, strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk. -- To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or under the guidance of others. -- Leading wheel, a wheel situated before the driving wheels of a locomotive engine.

Leading

Lead"ing, n. 1. The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance. Shak. 2. Suggestion; hint; example. [Archaic] Bacon.

Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.

The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.

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Usage Examples

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

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