| leader | |
| 1. n. any person that leads or directs | |
| 2. n. one who goes first | |
| Follow the leader. | |
| 3. n. one having authority to direct | |
| We elected her team leader. | |
| 4. n. one who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles | |
| Leader of the House of Commons | |
| Senate Majority Leader | |
| 5. n. a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc. | |
| The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county. | |
| 6. n. (music) a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra | |
| 7. n. (music, UK) the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster | |
| 8. n. an animal that leads | |
| 9. n. the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions | |
| 10. n. an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs | |
| 11. n. someone or something that leads or conducts | |
| 12. n. (botany) a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant | |
| 13. n. a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground | |
| 14. n. (UK) the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story | |
| 15. n. (fishing) a section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to dete | |
| 16. n. a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a proj | |
| 17. n. (marketing) a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price | |
| 18. n. (printing) a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face | |
| 19. n. (printing, in the plural) 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 num | |
| 20. n. (fishing) a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. | |
| 21. n. (mining) a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one | |
| 22. n. (nautical) a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places | |
| 23. n. (engineering) the drive wheel in any kind of machinery | |
| 24. n. (meteorology) the path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning | |
