lead

/liːd/

意味: 鉛、先導

例文: Kai took the lead in the treasure hunt.
　　  カイが宝探しで先導を取った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: lead role(主役), lead singer(リードシンガー), lead story(トップニュース)

定義: 先導する、指導する、または案内することを意味します。人やグループを特定の方向に導くことや、何かを率いることを指します。また、鉛筆の芯や化学元素の鉛（Pb）を指すこともあります。

leadは約6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an advantage held by a competitor in a race
Noun: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
Noun: evidence pointing to a possible solution
Noun: a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead’)
Noun: the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
Noun: the introductory section of a story
Noun: (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
Noun: an actor who plays a principal role
Noun: (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
Noun: an indication of potential opportunity
Noun: a news story of major importance
Noun: the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
Noun: restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
Noun: thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
Noun: mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
Noun: a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
Noun: the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
Verb: take somebody somewhere
Verb: have as a result or residue
Verb: tend to or result in
Verb: travel in front of; go in advance of others
Verb: cause to undertake a certain action
Verb: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Verb: be in charge of
Verb: be ahead of others; be the first
Verb: be conducive to
Verb: lead, as in the performance of a composition
Verb: lead, extend, or afford access
Verb: move ahead (of others) in time or space
Verb: cause something to pass or lead somewhere
Verb: preside over

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She will lead the team to victory.(彼女がチームを勝利に導く。)
The pipes are made of lead.(そのパイプは鉛でできている。)
His advice can lead to success.(彼の助言は成功に導くことがある。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he took the lead at the last turn
Noun: the children were playing with lead soldiers
Noun: the police are following a promising lead
Noun: the trail led straight to the perpetrator
Noun: he takes the lead in any group
Noun: we were just waiting for someone to take the lead
Noun: they didn’t follow our lead
Noun: it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter
Noun: he took a long lead off first
Noun: he got a tip on the stock market
Noun: a good lead for a job
Noun: it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads
Noun: the lead was in the dummy
Verb: We lead him to our chief
Verb: can you take me to the main entrance?
Verb: He conducted us to the palace
Verb: The water left a mark on the silk dress
Verb: Her blood left a stain on the napkin
Verb: This remark lead to further arguments among the guests
Verb: The procession was headed by John
Verb: Her greed led her to forge the checks
Verb: Service runs all the way to Cranbury
Verb: His knowledge doesn’t go very far
Verb: My memory extends back to my fourth year of life
Verb: The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets
Verb: Who is heading this project?
Verb: she topped her class every year
Verb: The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing
Verb: conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years
Verb: This door goes to the basement
Verb: The road runs South
Verb: Run the wire behind the cabinet
Verb: John moderated the discussion

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Pb, atomic number 82, booster cable, chair, conduce, conduct, confidential information, contribute, direct, extend, go, guide, head, hint, jumper cable, jumper lead, lead, lead story, lead-in, leading, leash, leave, lede, moderate, pass, pencil lead, precede, principal, result, run, spark advance, star, steer, take, tether, tip, top, track, trail, wind

Antonyms(反意語): deficit, follow

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): actor, advantage, angle, be, direct, evidence, graphite, guidance, hash out, induce, jumper, leadership, leave, metallic element, news article, pass, perform, position, precede, produce, promote, restraint, score, section, strip, timing, travel, turn, wire

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): above, accompany, actress, administer, advance, air bag, airbrake, alkali metal, alkaline earth, aluminum, americium, angle, angle of extinction, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, angle of refraction, angular distance, anomaly, antimony, appear, approach, arrester, article, ascend, attack, attend, automobile, axil, azimuth, back, band, bandy, bandy about, bang, barium, barnstormer, base metal, baseball score, basketball score, bat, beetle, belong, berkelium, beryllium, betake oneself, billow, birdie, bismuth, blaze away, bogey, book, bounce, bowling score, brake, brake pad, brake shoe, breeze, bring, broach, cadmium, calcium, californium, canto, caravan, career, career counseling, carry, catch, center on, cerium, cesium, chain, chapter, character actor, chromium, churn out, circle, circuit, circulate, click off, cobalt, come, comedian, compel, complementary angles, conclusion, conduct, confer, connive at, consider, contribute, copper, cover, cramp, crawl, crotch, cruise, curium, cut, cut corners, cutting angle, cycle, cynosure, debate, decide, declaim, deficit, derail, descend, development, dip, disproof, do, dogleg, double eagle, double-bogey, down, drag, draw, drive, duck, dysprosium, eagle, earliness, ease, einsteinium, encourage, episode, erbium, europium, expedience, exposition, extend, exterior angle, face, face angle, fall, fastener, favor, favorableness, feed, fermium, ferry, filament, float, flock, fly, follow, football score, forge, foster, francium, front, futurity, gadolinium, gag, gallium, game, genetic counseling, get around, ghost, glide, go, go around, good, guide, hafnium, half-mast, ham, handicap, head, heavy, heavy metal, helix angle, helm, help, hiss, hold, holmium, homecourt advantage, hurtle, improvise, inclination, indium, induce, ingenue, inhabit, innings, insert, interior angle, interpret, introduction, iridium, iron, island hop, jumper cable, juxtaposition, lance, landmark, lanthanum, lateness, lead, lead-in, leading man, leash, leave, left, let, leverage, lie, lithium, lock, love, lurch, lutetium, magnesium, magnetic declination, make, manganese, marriage counseling, match, mercury, mezuzah, mime, moderate, molybdenum, move, mullion, muzzle, narration, negociate, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, noble metal, obbligato, oblique angle, occupy, operate, osmium, outflank, pace, palladium, pan, par, pass, pass off, pass over, pass through, passage, pastness, patchcord, pencil, perigon, personal, persuade, pipe up, pitch, plane angle, plant, play, plow, pole position, polls, polonium, polyhedral angle, populate, post, potassium, powwow, prance, praseodymium, precede, precess, preference, premier, presentness, pride of place, privilege, probable cause, proceed, profit, promethium, prompt, proof, propagate, protactinium, pull, punctuality, pursue, push, radium, raft, reach, recapitulation, rede, reef, reenactor, reflex angle, rehearse, repair, retreat, retrograde, return, rhenium, rhodium, ribbon, ride, right, right angle, rise, road map, roll, round, rubidium, ruff, run, rush, ruthenium, safety belt, salient angle, samarium, scamp, scandium, scene-stealer, scramble, screed, screen actor, sea anchor, seasonableness, seek, serenade, setting, shackle, shuttle, sidebar, sift, sign, simultaneity, sit, site, ski, slice into, slither, snowshoe, sodium, solicit, solid angle, spark advance, speed, spherical angle, sports section, spot, spur, stand, stand back, star, start, station, stay, steamer, step, straddle, stray, stretch, stroke, strontium, stunt, suborn, superiority, supernumerary, sura, swap, swash, swim, swing, symptom, tab, tantalum, tape, tardiness, tax advantage, taxi, technetium, telephone wire, terbium, thallium, thorium, thrash out, thulium, tilt angle, tin, tip, titanium, tragedian, trail, tram, trammel, transfer, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trend setting, trick, trundle, tungsten, turn, understudy, unseasonableness, upstager, uranium, vanadium, vantage, vertical angle, view angle, walk, walk-on, wave angle, weather strip, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, wing, withdraw, ytterbium, yttrium, zigzag, zinc, zirconium, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): beacon, captain, chair, clip lead, co-star, come, draw away, entail, film star, give, go far, hand, hard lead, idol, lead, mislead, necessitate, pig lead, radiate, spearhead, take hold, television star, usher

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: chair, conducive, conducting, contributive, contributory, director, extent, guide, head, hint, lead, leader, leash, moderator, precedency, result, resultant, star, steer, tether, tip, tipster, top, topper, track

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive