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leading

verb
/ˈliːdɪŋ/UK/ˈlidɪŋ/US/ˈlɛdɪŋ/US

Etymology

From Middle English ledinge, ledynge, ledand, ledande, ledende, from Old English lǣdende, from Proto-West Germanic *laidijandī, from Proto-Germanic *laidijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to lead”), equivalent to lead + -ing. Compare West Frisian liedend, Dutch leidend, German leitend, Swedish ledande, Icelandic leiðandi.

  1. derived from *laidijaną✻ — “to lead”
  2. inherited from *laidijandz✻
  3. inherited from *laidijandī✻
  4. inherited from lǣdende
  5. inherited from ledinge

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of lead

  2. Providing guidance or direction.

    • Avoid leading questions if you really want the truth.

  3. Ranking first.

    • He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Occurring in advance

      Occurring in advance; preceding.

      • The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.

    2. An act by which one is led or guided.

      • I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop, / I do not say leadings you thought great are not great, / But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
      • In his poetic method each writer followed the leadings of his own genius, without reference to common rules and standards; the individualism of the Revolutionary epoch asserted itself to the full.

    3. Command of an army or military unit.

      • Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?

    4. Vertical space added between lines

      Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at leading. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at leading. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at leading

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA