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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Lead = ‘LEED’
ออกเสียง Led = ‘LED’
NECTEC’s Lexitron-2 Dictionary
ให้คำแปล Lead = n. ตัวเอก ตำแหน่งนำ เชือกนำทาง(สุนัข)
= vt. ก่อให้เกิด ควบคุมสั่งการ ดำเนินชีวิต
ให้คำแปล Led = vt; กริยาข่อง 2 และ 3 ของ กริยา lead
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Lead & led
The words are sometimes confused
because the past tense of lead is led,
which is pronounced like the metal lead.
When an object is covered or treated with lead
(the metal), it is leaded,
but such a condition bears no relationship
to the verb that means “to show the way,” “to conduct or escort”:
“If you lead the way, I’ll follow you.”
“You have led me to make a foolish mistake.”
“This experiment has led me to believe that leadis a heavy, soft, malleable metal.”
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Lead & led
When you’re hit over the head,
the instrument could be a “lead” pipe.
But when
it’s a verb, “lead” is the present and “led” is the past tense.
The problem is that the past tense is pronounced exactly
like the above-mentioned plumbing material
(“plumb” comes from a word meaning “lead”),
so people confuse the two.
In a sentence like “She led us to the scene of the crime,”
always use the three-letter spelling. (copied from original text)
When you’re hit over the head,
the instrument could be a “lead” pipe.
But when it’s a verb,
“lead” is the present and “led” is the past tense.
The problem is that the past tense is pronounced exactly like
the above-mentioned plumbing material
(“plumb” comes from a word meaning “lead”),
so people confuse the two.
In a sentence like “She led us to the scene of the crime,”
always use the three-letter spelling.
The A-Z of correct English Usage Dictionary:
Lead or Led?
LEAD is the present tense.
LED is the past tense.
Go in front and LEAD us home.
He went in front and LED us home
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
lead =
to conduct or escort: lead them out;
a heavy bluish-gray metal
Not to be confused with:
led = past tense of lead:
He led them along the path.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
lead
Lead is used with various related meanings
AS a verb, singular noun, or countable noun,
and with a totally different meaning and pronunciation
as an uncountable noun.
1. used as a verb
If you lead (/liːd/) someone somewhere,
you show them the way by going in front of them,
or by walking beside them holding their hand or arm.
The past tense and -ed participle of 'lead' is led (/led/), not 'leaded'.
My mother took me by the hand and led me downstairs.
I had led her to the armchair and she sat down.
2. 'drive' and 'take'
You do not say that you 'lead' someone somewhere in a car.
You say that you drive or take them there.
Ginny drove Mrs Yancy to the airport.
It's his turn to take the children to school.
3. used as a singular noun
The person who has the lead in a race or competition
is the one who is winning.
This win gave him the overall lead.
You often say that someone is in the lead.
Hammond was well in the lead for the first 40 minutes.
4. used as a countable noun
A dog's lead is a chain or long piece of leather or plastic
which is attached to the dog's collar so that you can control the dog.
Always keep your dog on a lead in the street.
Note that the American word for this item is leash.
Dog owners say they have to exercise their dogs without a leash.
5. used as an uncountable noun
Lead (/led/) is a soft, grey, heavy metal.
...pipes made of lead.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for lead
Verb (1)
GUIDE, LEAD, STEER, PILOT, ENGINEER
mean to direct in a course or show the way to be followed.
GUIDE implies intimate knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers.
guided the scouts through the cave
LEAD implies showing the way and often keeping those that follow under control and in order.
led his team to victory
STEER implies an ability to keep to a course
and stresses the capacity of maneuvering correctly.
steered the ship through a narrow channel
PILOT suggests guidance over a dangerous or complicated course.
piloted the bill through the Senate
ENGINEER implies finding ways to avoid or
overcome difficulties in achieving an end
or carrying out a plan.
engineered his son's election to the governorship
When to Use Lead or Led
There is some persistent confusion about lead and led.
Or, we should say, there is confusion about the leads and led.
Lead is both a noun and a verb, as most people know.
There are several unrelated nouns spelled lead:
one most commonly refers to a metal
(as in, "The paint was made with lead"),
and the other most commonly refers to a position of advantage
(as in, "Our team was in the lead").
The verb lead is pronounced /LEED/, with a long e;
the noun that refers to a position
or advantage is also pronounced /LEED/, with a long e;
the noun that refers to the metal, however,
is pronounced /LED/, with a short e.
To this moderately convoluted situation,
add the past tense and past participle of the verb lead, which is led
and pronounced like the metal noun lead with a short e.
The homophonic confusion leads to homographic confusion,
and you will therefore occasionally
see lead in constructions where led is called for
(as in, “She lead the ducklings to safety”
instead of “She led the ducklings to safety”).
The correct past and past participle of lead is spelled led.
If you aren’t sure whether to use led or lead
as the verb in your sentence,
try reading it aloud to yourself.
If the verb is pronounced /LED/, use led.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
Why Do We 'Bury the Lede?'
We buried 'lead' so far down that we forgot how to spell it
What to Know
A lede is the introductory section in journalism
and thus to bury the lede
refers to hiding
the most important and relevant pieces of a story
within other distracting information.
The spelling of lede is allegedly
so as to not confuse it with lead (/led/)
which referred to the strip of metal
that would separate lines of type.
Both spellings, however,
can be found in instances of the phrase.
In journalism,
the lede refers to the introductory section of a news story
that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.
It appears most frequently in the idiom bury the lede.
Our earliest examples of 'lede' come from the 1970s,
around the time that
Linotype machines began disappearing from newsrooms.
You often see
a periodical or news organization accused of burying the lede
when the important elements of a story
are tucked down into the details,
obscured by less important, distracting information:
Why is it Spelled "Lede"
The spelling lede is an alteration of lead,
a word which, on its own, makes sense;
after all,
isn't the main information in a story
found in the lead (first) paragraph?
And sure enough,
for many years lead was the preferred spelling
for the introductory section of a news story.
So how did we come to spell it lede?
Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s,
we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008.
For much of that time,
it was mostly kept under wraps as in-house newsroom jargon.
Spelling the word as lede
helped copy editors, typesetters, and others in the business
distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ),
which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal
separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine).
Since both uses were likely
to come up frequently in a newspaper office,
there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly.
This is sure to become one of those
longstanding usage debates
that will have its hard-liners on both sides,
and perhaps reveal a little bit about
the writer's familiarity with the news business.
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