Definizione monolingua

leader

leader (plural leaders)

1. Any person or thing that leads or conducts.
2. One who goes first.

   Follow the leader.

3. One having authority to direct.

   We elected her team leader.

4. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

   Leader of the House of Commons

   Senate Majority Leader

5. A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

   The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.

6. (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
7. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
   • 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson; Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild?, page 41:

     The gesture of licking and nipping a leaders muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.

8. An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
   • 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforters conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:

     Still there are many passages in his [Donnes] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.

9. (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
   • 1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the worlds vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora?, page 82:

     A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a ""telephone pole.""

10. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
11. (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
12. (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.
13. 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.
14. (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
15. (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
16. (printing, in 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.
17. (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
    • 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appletons dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering?, page 786:

      when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower

18. (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
19. (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
20. (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.

Definizione dizionario leader

	capo
	one having authority
	Persona che comanda, governa o che é responsabile.
	A person who leads, rules, or is in charge.

	duce
	one having authority

	caratteri di riempimento
	A teleconferencing participant who can activate and deactivate a phone conference.

	coordinatore
	A teleconferencing participant who can activate and deactivate a phone conference.

	principale
	Persona che comanda, governa o che é responsabile.
	A person who leads, rules, or is in charge.

	sequenza iniziale
	A teleconferencing participant who can activate and deactivate a phone conference.

autorità

capintesta

capitano

capocuoco

capofila

carattere di riempimento

comandante

condottiero

conduttore

direttore

dirigente

editoriale

governatore

guida

leader

primo violino

principe

scala

signore

superiore

Altri significati:

(in athletic competition) starter

Leader of a department or tribe.

(engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.

One who goes first.

A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

(music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.

One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

(printing, in 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.

(UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.

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.

(marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.

(nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

(botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.

The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.

An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.

(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.

principal article in a newspaper

Any person or thing that leads or conducts.

(fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

overseer (of national affairs)

One having authority to direct.