lead
lead
nounDefinition of LEAD
1
the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show <the actor's career has really taken off since he became the lead in that prime-time drama>
Related Words leading lady, leading man; superstar; ingenue (or ing{eacute}nue), starlet; star turn [chiefly British]; coprincipal, costar
Near Antonyms extra, supernumerary
2
the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects <the runner maintained a lead of several meters all the way around the track>
3
a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert <my sister got a lead on the job opening from her neighbor, who is the human resources director for the company>
Related Words advice, advisement, assistance, counsel, guidance, recommendation, suggestion; caution, cautioning, sign, signal, telltale, tip-off, warning; brief, direction, feedback, instruction, observation; prompt, reminder, urging; answer, clue, solution
4
a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation) <the police are now working on several leads generated by the evidence gathered at the crime scene>
Related Words breath, flicker, glimmer, glimpse, mention, scent, whiff, wind; hunch, idea, inspiration, notion; allusion, implication, inference, innuendo, insinuation; denotation, evidence, guidepost, key, mark, overtone, pointer, sign, signal, telltale, token; assistance, nod, prompt, tip, tip-off, wink; feeling, foreboding, intuition, premonition, presentiment, suspicion; augury, foreshadower, foretaste, harbinger, omen, portent, prefigurement, presage, symptom
