1. [noun] Any person that leads or directs.
2. [noun] One who goes first.
3. [noun] One having authority to direct.
4. [noun] One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
5. [noun] A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
6. [noun] (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
7. [noun] (music) (UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
8. [noun] An animal that leads.
9. [noun] The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
10. [noun] An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
11. [noun] Something that leads or conducts.
12. [noun] (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
13. [noun] A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
14. [noun] (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
15. [noun] (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 detect than the main fishing line.
16. [noun] A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
17. [noun] (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
18. [noun] (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
19. [noun] (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 number.
20. [noun] (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
21. [noun] (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
22. [noun] (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
23. [noun] (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
24. [noun] A person who rules or guides or inspires others.
25. [noun] A featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers.
