Leaded vs. Led — What's the Difference?

To show the way to by going in advance

A light-emitting diode (a semiconductor diode which glows when a voltage is applied)

To guide or direct in a course

A semiconductor diode that converts applied voltage to light and is used in lamps and digital displays.

To serve as a route for; take

Past tense and past participle of lead1.

To be a channel or conduit for (water or electricity, for example).

Simple past tense and past participle of lead

To guide the behavior or opinion of; induce

Under somebody's control or leadership.

To direct the performance or activities of

Of a farm, etc.: managed by a deputy instead of the owner or tenant in person.

To inspire the conduct of

Of Lead.

To play a principal or guiding role in

Diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used

To go or be at the head of

To be ahead of

To be foremost in or among

To pass or go through; live

To begin or open with, as in games

To guide (a partner) in dancing.

To aim in front of (a moving target).

(Sports) To pass a ball or puck ahead of (a moving teammate) so that the player can receive the pass without changing direction or losing speed.

To be first; be ahead.

To go first as a guide.

To act as commander, director, or guide.

To afford a passage, course, or route

To tend toward a certain goal or result

To make the initial play, as in a game or contest.

To begin a presentation or account in a given way

To guide a dance partner.

To start a dance step on a specified foot.

(Baseball) To advance or stand a few paces away from one's base toward the next while the pitcher prepares to deliver a pitch. Used of a base runner.

(Sports) To begin an attack in boxing with a specified hand or punch

To cover, line, weight, or fill with lead.

(Printing) To provide space between (lines of type) with leads.

To secure (window glass) with leads.

To treat with lead or a lead compound

The first or foremost position

One occupying such a position; a leader.

The initiative

The margin by which one holds a position of advantage or superiority

Information pointing toward a possible solution; a clue

An indication of potential opportunity; a tip

Command; leadership

An example; a precedent

The principal role in a film, play, show, or other scripted production.

The person playing such a role.

The introductory portion of a news story, especially the first sentence.

An important, usually prominently displayed news story.

The first play.

The prerogative or turn to make the first play

A card played first in a round.

(Baseball) An amount of space that a base runner moves or stands away from one base in the direction of the next while the pitcher prepares to deliver a pitch.

(Sports) A blow in boxing that begins a series or exchange of punches.

A leash.

A deposit of gold ore in an old riverbed.

See lode.

(Electronics) A conductor by which one circuit element is electrically connected to another.

(Nautical) The direction in which a line runs.

The distance aimed in front of a moving target.

A channel of open water created by a break in a mass of ice.

Symbol Pb A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, glass, storage batteries, and antiknock compounds. Atomic number 82; atomic weight 207.2; melting point 327.5°C; boiling point 1,749°C; specific gravity 11.35; valence 2, 4. See Periodic Table.

Any of various, often graphitic compositions used as the writing substance in pencils.

A thin stick of such material.

Bullets from or for firearms; shot

A lead weight suspended by a line, used to make soundings.

(Printing) A thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type.

Strips of lead used to hold the panes of a window.

Chiefly British A flat roof covered with sheets of lead.

First or foremost

Most important

Held in place by strips of lead.

Containing or treated with the element lead.

Containing tetraethyllead.

(informal) caffeinated.

Simple past tense and past participle of lead

Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.

Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

(of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead;

Treated or mixed with lead;

Having thin strips of lead between the lines of type