(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
(n.) One who goes first.
(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(4) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(5) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(10) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(12) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(13) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(14) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(16) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(17) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(18) The nucleoprotein gene is located proximal to the 3' end of the genome and is preceeded by a putative leader sequence.
(19) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
Leaper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, leaps.
(n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
(2) The tarsal bones referred to Arapahovius suggest that animals in this genus were habitual leapers.
(3) In small-bodied leapers we therefore find adaptations that increase the distance or length of time for propulsion and maximize speed.
(4) Accordingly, large-bodied leapers have adaptations that allow optimal use of available muscle force.
(5) In an arm-swinging movement, the long, heavy arms of the large-bodied leapers are effectively used to gain additional momentum.
(6) Species which exploit a 3-dimensional environment and execute fast and complicated head and body movements have a larger VC than closely related species confined to the ground or which are less skilled leapers.
(7) In order to relate the details of locomotor behaviour to a certain environment, the biomechanics of jumping are analyzed in five primate species: The three mainly arboreal prosimian species Galago moholi, the smallest and most specialized leaper of all, Galago garnettii, a medium-sized bushbaby with some capacities for jumping, and Lemur catta also with some abilities to jump.
(8) Contrary to the most common view, the euprimate morphotype was probably not a specialized leaper.
(9) Some traits suggested as being characteristic of vertical clingers and leapers (i.e., deep femoral condyles facing posteriorly, narrow patellar groove with prominent lateral margin, greater trochanter overhanging anterior aspect of shaft) are shown to be common to all prosimians except the slow-climbing lorisids.
(10) How does body size determine the locomotor performance and proportions of leapers?
(11) Not only the dentition shows different morphs, but also postcranial material represents two vertical clingers and leapers of different size.
(12) In addition, take-offs of the larger-bodied leapers are characterized by a regularly occurring arm swing movement, thus making additional use of nonhindlimb muscles for acceleration.