To guide or conduct. • To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection. • To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions. • To direct; to counsel; to instruct. • To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit. • To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure. • To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc. • To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb. • To begin, to be ahead. • To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among. • To proceed in front of others; to go first. • To be more advanced in technology or business than others. • To begin a game, round, or trick, with • To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race. • To have the highest interim score in a game. • To step off base and move towards the next base. • To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes. • To lead climb. • To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place. • To be a cause of. • To live or experience (a particular way of life). • Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to. • Misspelling of led.