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How to pronounce “lead”
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Pronunciation guide for lead
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of lead with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Hidden Danger of Lead in Soil
I bet you’ve heard about our problem with lead contamination.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
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How to pronounce lead
The Hidden Danger of Lead in Soil
I bet you’ve heard about our problem with lead contamination.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “lead”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
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