Lead story

Definition

lead 1 / li:d / v ( pt, pp led /led /) ၁။ (က) ဦးေဆာင္ လမ္းျပသည္။ lead a guest to his room ❍ He led us out into the garden. (ခ) တြဲေခၚသည္။ ေခၚငင္ သည္။ ဦးတည္ေပးသည္။ lead a blind man across the road ❍ She led the horse back into the stable. ❍ In ballroom dancing the man leads. ❍ ( fig ) I tried to lead the discussion back to the main issue. ၂။ (က) ဦးတည္သည္။ A path led up the hill. (ခ) ဆက္သြယ္ ထားသည္။ a wire leading to a speaker ❍ the pipe leading from the water tank. (ဂ) ဦးတည္ေခၚေဆာင္သည္။ The track led us alongside a wood. ၃။ ~ sb (to sth ) ေဆာင္ ယူသည္။ ေသြးေဆာင္သည္။ ဆိုက္ေရာက္ေစသည္။ He’s too easily led. သူသည္ နားေယာင္လြယ္လြန္းသည္။ ❍ What led you to this conclusion? ဘာေၾကာင့္ ဒီလိုဆံုးျဖတ္ရတာလဲ။ ❍ Don’t let him lead you astray (ie tempt you to do wrong). သူေသြးေဆာင္ရာမပါ ပါေစႏွင့္။ ❍ The evidence leads me to believe that she’s lying. သူညာေနေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အထားမ်ားက သက္ေသခံေနသည္။ ❍ This has led scientists to speculate on the existence of other galaxies. ၄။ ေနထိုင္သည္။ lead a miserable existence / a life of luxury / a double life. ၅။ ~ (sb/sth) (in sth ) ဦးေဆာင္သည္။ lead the world in cancer research ❍ The champion is leading (his nearest rival) by 18 seconds. ၆။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္သည္။ ဦးေဆာင္သည္။ lead an army/ an expedition / a strike ❍ lead a discussion ❍ lead the carol singing ❍ Who will lead the party in the next election? ၇။ (ဖဲဝိုင္းတြင္) စကစားသည္။ (ဖဲခ်ပ္ကို) စခ်သည္။ It's your turn to lead. ❍ lead trumps / the two of clubs. n ၁။ [U, sing] ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈ။ ေရွ႕ေဆာင္လမ္းျပမႈ။ He’s the chief troublemaker; the others just follow his lead. ❍ take a / the lead in trying to end the dispute ❍ People expect the Church to give more of a lead on moral issues. ၂။ [sing] ~ (over sb/sth) ဦးေဆာင္ေနျခင္း။ have a lead of three metres / two lengths / half a lap (over a rival) ❍ The company has built up a substantial lead in laser technology. ၃။ the lead [sing] ~ (over sb/sth) ထိပ္ဆံုး။ ဦးေဆာင္မႈ။ move/go into the lead ❍ take (over) the lead (from sb)/ lose the lead (to sb) ❍ a company regaining the lead over its competitors. ၄။ [C usu sing ] အဓိကအခန္း။ ဦးေဆာင္။ play the lead in the new Broadway hit ❍ the lead guitarist of the group. ၅။ [C usu sing ] (ဖဲဝိုင္းတြင္) ဦးဆံုးအလွည့္။ Whose lead is it? ၆။ [C] သဲလြန္စ။ The police are investigating an important new lead. ၇။ (also esp US leash) [C] လည္ပတ္ႀကိဳး။ Dogs must be kept on a lead in the park. ၈။ [C] လွ်ပ္စစ္ဝိုင္ယာႀကိဳး။ ❍ CAR ❏ get (sb) / go / lead sb nowhere [ IDM ] ေယာင္လည္လည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဟိုမေရာက္ ဒီမေရာက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ He was getting nowhere with his homework until I helped him. ❍ £ 20 goes nowhere (ie does not buy much) these days when you're feeding a family. ❍ This discussion is leading us nowhere. ❏ lead sb by the nose [ IDM ] နဖားႀကိဳးတပ္သည္။ ❏ lead sb a (merry) dance [ IDM ] လမ္းမွားေရာက္ေအာင္ ေသြးေဆာင္ျမႇဴဆြယ္သည္။ ❏ lead-in n နိဒါန္းပ်ဳိးျခင္း။ He told an amusing story as a lead-in to the serious part of his speech. ❏ lead off (from) sth [ PHRV ] ျဖာထြက္သည္။ alley-ways leading off (from) the main square. ❏ lead (sth) off [ PHRV ] စ(လွမ္း)သည္။ The first couple leads off to the right (ie in a dance). ❏ lead sb on [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႏွစ္ေပါက္တစ္ေပါက္ ႐ိုက္သည္။ The salesman tried to lead me on with talk of amazing savings on heating bills. ❏ lead story n ေခါင္းႀကီးပိုင္း။ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးသတင္း။ ❏ lead sb to the altar ( dated or joc ) [ IDM ] လက္ထပ္ သည္။ ❏ lead to sth [ PHRV ] အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ေစႏိုင္သည္။ Eating too much fat can lead to heart disease. အဆီအလြန္အကြၽံ စားျခင္းျဖင့္ ႏွလံုးေရာဂါရႏိုင္သည္။ ❍ They were instantly attracted — one thing led to another and they got married. ျမင္ျမင္ခ်င္း သူတို႔ ခ်စ္ႀကိဳက္သြားၾကသည္။ အစရိွ အေနာင္ေနာင္ဆိုသလို ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ သူတို႔ ညားသြားၾကသည္။ ❏ lead up to sth [ PHRV ] (အက်ဳိးဆက္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစရန္) အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ the events leading up to the strike. ❏ lead sb up the garden path [ IDM ] လိမ္ညာ လွည့္ျဖား သည္။ တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ lead the way (to/in sth) [ IDM ] ေရွ႕ေဆာင္လမ္းျပသည္။ lead the way in space research ❍ You lead the way and I'll follow you. ❏ lead with sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( journalism ) …သတင္းကို ေခါင္းတည္သည္။ We'll lead with the royal wedding. ၂။ (လက္ေဝွ႔တြင္)… လက္သီးျဖင့္ စထိုးသည္။ lead with one’s right / left. lead 2 / led / n ၁။ [U] ( symb Pb ) ခဲသတၱဳ။ ၂။ [C, U] ခဲတံ၏ ခဲဆံ။ ❏ leaded / 'ledÇd / adj (က) ခဲျဖင့္ဖံုးထားေသာ၊ ကြပ္ထား ေသာ။ a leaded roof / window. (ခ) ခဲသတၱဳပါေသာ(ဓာတ္ဆီ)။ Compare UNLEADED ❏ leaded light n (usu pl ) ခဲေဘာင္ကြပ္ မွန္ကြက္။ ❏ leaden / 'ledn / adj ၁။ ထိုင္းမိႈင္း၊ ေလးလံ၊ ေလးတြဲ႕ေသာ။ a leaden heart ❍ moving at a leaden pace. ၂။ မီးခိုးမိႈင္းေရာင္။ leaden skies / clouds. ၃။ ( dated ) အတြင္း၌ ခဲျဖင့္ၿပီးေသာ။ a leaden coffin. ❏ lead-free adj ခဲမပါေသာ (ဓာတ္ဆီ)။

Examples

1. Leading the mourners were his widow and 14-year-old daughter.
2. She led us down the hill.
3. [lead someone into something] : He led his men into battle.
4. After showing us the dining room
5. the estate agent led us into the kitchen.
6. [lead the way] : Sheila turned and led the way downstairs.
7. She took the boy by the hand and led him from the room.
8. Dismounting
9. I led the horse by the reins back to the stable.
10. The road leads west for three miles then turns south.
11. We followed a dirt track leading through the woods.
12. The pipe leads from the water heater to the bathroom upstairs.
13. A narrow alleyway leading off the High Street
14. This door leads you to a large entrance hall.
15. The polls show Labour leading with only 10 days left until the election.
16. [lead someone by something] : France was leading England at half time by 3 goals to 2.
17. [lead the field] : Johnson led the field throughout the final day of the rally.
18. [lead the world (in something)] : They lead the world in oil production.
19. [lead the field] : Spain still leads the field as the top British holiday destination.
20. She led the software development team during the project.
21. I asked Ned to lead the discussion.
22. [lead something away from something] : She kept trying to lead the conversation away from personal matters.
23. [lead someone to do something] : He said differences over foreign policy had led him to resign.
24. I had been led to believe that the job was mine if I wanted it.
25. [lead a good/happy/busy/quiet etc life] : He had always led a quiet life until he met Emma.
26. [lead with] : She led with the eight of spades.
27. We should not be led down a garden path into believing that there is some enormous groundswell of support.
28. I am sorry I rather led you up the garden path yesterday. My recollection was wrong.