leading
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leading1 /ˈliːdɪŋ/
▶adjective most important or in first place.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leading2 /ˈlɛdɪŋ/
▶noun the amount of blank space between lines of print.
■ the distance from the bottom of one line of type to the bottom of the next.
'leading' also found in these Oxford entries:
abducens nerves
- able seaman
- aboral
- adit
- advent
- agogic
- aircraftman
- akrasia
- aldosteronism
- ancylostomiasis
- antechamber
- approach
- arteriole
- atheroma
- backstay
- bellwether
- bleeding edge
- blind alley
- bowl
- bridge passage
- bum rap
- caldera
- cardinal
- character actor
- chess
- chord
- commune
- companion
- companionway
- concertmaster
- concha
- contracture
- coryphée
- costa
- cystic fibrosis
- deadly sin
- demagogue
- disaster
- dissociation
- diverticulum
- doorstep
- downward
- drive
- dromos
- drought
- duct
- ductus
- encephalitis lethargica
- Eustachian tube
- extension
