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单词 lead by the nose
释义

lead1 /lēd/

transitive verb (pap and pat led)
  1. To show the way by going first
  2. To precede
  3. To guide by the hand
  4. To direct
  5. To guide
  6. To conduct
  7. To convey
  8. To cart (dialect)
  9. To induce
  10. To live
  11. To cause to live or experience
  12. To adduce (Scots law)
  13. To have a principal or guiding part or place in
  14. To play as the first card of a round (cards)
intransitive verb
  1. To be first or among the first
  2. To be guide or chief
  3. To act or play (a card) first
  4. To cart crops to the farmyard (often with in)
  5. To afford a passage (to), or (figurative) tend towards
  6. (of a newspaper, etc) to have as its main story, feature, etc (with with)
noun
  1. First place
  2. Precedence
  3. The amount by which one is ahead
  4. Direction
  5. Guidance
  6. An indication
  7. A precedent or example
  8. A chief role
  9. The player of a chief role
  10. Leadership
  11. Initiative
  12. The act or right of playing first, or the play of whoever plays first
  13. The first player of a side (curling, etc)
  14. A leash
  15. A watercourse leading to a mill
  16. A channel through ice
  17. The course of a running rope from end to end
  18. A main conductor in electrical distribution
  19. The distance between successive contours on the same helix of a screw thread measured parallel to the axis of the screw
adjective
  1. Chief
  2. Main
  3. Leading
ORIGIN: OE lǣdan to lead, lād a way; Ger leiten to lead

leadˈer noun

  1. A person who leads or goes first
  2. A chief
  3. In an orchestra, the principal first violin
  4. The head of a party, expedition, etc
  5. The leading editorial article in a newspaper (also leading article)
  6. The principal upward-growing shoot of a tree
  7. A horse or dog in a front place in a team
  8. A tendon
  9. A short blank strip at the beginning and end of a film or tape
  10. A translucent connection between a fishing-line and bait
  11. A line of dots to guide the eye (printing)
  12. The principal wheel in any machinery
  13. An alternative name for a conductor (of an orchestra, etc) (US)

leadereneˈ noun

A female leader, esp a domineering one (orig applied to Margaret Thatcher when UK Prime Minister)

leaderetteˈ noun

A brief newspaper leader

leadˈerless adjective

leadˈership noun

  1. The office of leader or conductor
  2. Those acting as leaders of a particular organization or group
  3. Ability to lead

leadˈing noun

  1. Guidance
  2. Spiritual guidance
  3. Leadership
  4. Carting (crops, etc)
adjective
  1. Acting as leader
  2. Directing or controlling
  3. Principal
  4. Preceding

leadˈerboard noun

A scoreboard that lists the names and scores of the current leaders in a sporting, esp golf, competition

leadˈer-caˈble noun

A cable on the sea-bottom by which ships with induction-receiving apparatus can find their way into port

Leader of the House of Commons or Leader of the House of Lords noun

A senior member of the government officially responsible for initiating the business of the House

leadˈ-in noun

  1. The part of the groove on a record before the start of the recording, opp to lead-out (also lead-in groove)
  2. The cable connecting the transmitter or receiver to the elevated part of an aerial
  3. The introduction to, or introductory passage of, a commercial, discussion, newspaper article, piece of music, etc (also adjective)

leading aircraftman or leading aircraftsman, or leading aircraftwoman or leading aircraftswoman noun

The rank above aircraft(s)man or aircraft(s)woman

leading business noun (rare)

The acting of the principal parts or roles in plays

leading case noun (law)

A case serving as a precedent

leading counsel noun

Counsel who takes precedence over another in conducting a case

leading dog noun (Aust and NZ)

A sheepdog trained to control sheep by running ahead of them

leading edge noun

  1. The edge first met
  2. The foremost edge of an aerofoil or propeller blade
  3. The rising amplitude portion of a pulse signal (telecommunications)
  4. The forefront, esp in scientific or technical development (figurative)

leading lady or leading man noun

The principal actress or actor in a play

leading light noun

A very influential member

leading note noun (music)

The seventh tone of a major or minor scale, which leads the hearer to expect the tonic to follow

leading question noun

A question put in such a way as to suggest the desired answer

leading reins or leading strings plural noun (US)

  1. Children's walking reins
  2. Vexatious care or custody

leadˈ-off noun

A first move (see also lead off below)

leadˈ-out noun

  1. The part of the groove on a record after the recording has finished, opp to lead-in (also lead-out groove)
  2. A wire by which electric current can enter or leave an electronic instrument

lead time noun (orig US)

  1. The time between the conception or design of a product, factory, alteration, etc and its production, completion, implementation, etc
  2. The time taken for delivery of goods after an order has been placed

leadˈ-up noun

  1. Something that introduces or causes something else
  2. The period immediately prior to something happening

lead apes in hell

Imagined to be the lot of old maids in the afterlife

lead astray

  1. To draw into a wrong course
  2. To seduce from proper conduct

lead by the nose

To make (someone) follow submissively

lead in (Scot)

To house the harvest

lead in prayer

To lead the offering up of prayer in an assembly, uniting the prayers of others

lead off

To begin or take the start in anything

lead on

  1. To persuade to go on, to draw on
  2. To persuade to do something foolish
  3. To trick or deceive

lead out

  1. To conduct to execution or a dance
  2. To bring out by preceding
  3. To begin to play (cards)

leads and lags (commerce)

  1. In international trade, the early payment of bills, dividends, etc to concerns abroad, and the delayed invoicing of foreign customers and delayed conversion of foreign currencies into sterling (in order to take advantage of expected changes in the rate of exchange), which have an effect on the balance of payments situation
  2. Any variations in the times of completion of transactions

lead someone a dance see under dance

lead the way

To go first and guide others

lead up to

  1. To bring about by degrees, to prepare for by steps or stages
  2. To happen immediately before
  3. To play in challenge to, or with a view to weakness in (cards)

nose /nōz/

noun
  1. The projecting part of the face used in breathing, smelling, and to some extent in speaking
  2. The power of smelling
  3. Flair, a faculty for tracking out, detecting, or recognizing (figurative)
  4. Scent, aroma, esp the bouquet of wine
  5. A projecting forepart of anything
  6. A projection
  7. A beak
  8. A nozzle
  9. The projecting edge of a step, a moulding or a mullion
  10. The withered remains of the flower on a gooseberry, apple, etc, opposite the stalk
  11. The connecting part of a pair of spectacles
  12. An informer (slang)
transitive verb and intransitive verb

To proceed or cause to proceed gingerly, as if feeling with the nose

transitive verb
  1. To smell
  2. To examine by smelling or as if by smelling
  3. To track out, detect or recognize (often with out)
  4. To touch, press or rub with the nose
  5. To thrust the nose into
  6. To come or be face to face with (archaic)
  7. To oppose rudely face to face (archaic)
  8. To provide with a nose (archaic)
  9. To remove the nose from (a gooseberry, etc)
  10. To pronounce with a nasal sound
intransitive verb
  1. To pry
  2. To nuzzle
  3. To move nose-first
  4. To sniff (archaic)
  5. To taper away in a noselike form
ORIGIN: OE nosu; Ger Nase, L nāsus

nosed adjective

Having a nose (used esp in combination, as in bottle-nosed, long-nosed, etc)

noseˈless adjective

nosˈer noun

  1. A blow on the nose
  2. A bloody nose
  3. A severe rebuff
  4. A strong headwind
  5. A prying person

nosˈey or nosˈy adjective

  1. Long-nosed
  2. Large-nosed
  3. Prying (informal)
  4. Bad-smelling
  5. Fragrant
  6. Sensitive to smells
  7. Nasal in sound
noun (informal)

A nickname for a person who pries

nosˈily adverb

nosˈiness noun (informal)

A tendency to pry

nosˈing noun

  1. The act of using the nose to smell, track, touch, etc
  2. The projecting rounded edge of the step of a stair, sill, moulding, etc

nosy see nosey above.

noseˈbag noun

  1. A bag for food, hung on a horse's head
  2. A picnicker's bag
  3. Food (slang)

noseˈband noun

The part of a horse's bridle coming over the nose, attached to the cheek-straps

noseˈbleed noun

  1. A bleeding from the nose
  2. A name given to yarrow and various other plants (obsolete or US)

noseˈbleeding noun

nose candy noun (N American informal)

Cocaine

nose cone noun

The front, usu conical, part of a spacecraft, etc

noseˈdive noun

A headlong plunge

intransitive verb

  1. To plunge nose-first
  2. To drop or decline sharply (figurative)

noseˈ-flute noun

A flute blown by the nose

nosegay see separate entry.

nose heaviness noun

The state in which the forces acting upon an aircraft in flight are such that it tends to pitch downwards by the nose

noseˈ-herb noun (Shakespeare)

A herb valued for its smell

nose job noun (informal)

Cosmetic surgery on the nose

noseˈ-leaf noun

A membranous appendage on some bats' snouts

noseˈ-led adjective

Led by the nose, ruled and fooled completely

noseˈ-nippers plural noun

A pince-nez

noseˈ-painting noun

Reddening of the nose that often results from excessive drinking of alcohol

noseˈpiece noun

  1. A nozzle
  2. The end of a microscope tube carrying the objective
  3. A nose-band
  4. The part of a helmet formed to protect the nose

nose rag noun (slang)

A handkerchief

noseˈ-ring noun

  1. An ornament worn in the septum of the nose or in either of its wings
  2. A ring in the septum of the nose for controlling a bull, pig, etc

nose tackle noun (American football)

A defensive lineman who opposes the offensive centre

nose wheel noun

The single wheel at the front of a vehicle, etc, esp an aircraft

Nosey Parker noun (informal; also without caps)

A prying person

by a nose

By a very short distance or small margin

cut off one's nose to spite one's face

To injure or disadvantage oneself through an act of revenge or anger towards another

follow one's nose

To go straight forward, or take the obvious or instinctive course

get up someone's nose (informal)

To annoy, irritate someone

keep one's nose clean (informal)

To keep out of trouble, ie not to behave badly or dishonestly

lead by the nose see under lead1

look down one's nose at

To look at in a supercilious or condescending way

make a long nose see under long3

nose out

To move forward slowly into traffic (in a vehicle)

nose to tail

(esp of vehicles in a queue) closely following one another

nose to the grindstone see under grind1

nose up

To direct or turn an aircraft nose upwards

not see beyond or further than (the end of) one's nose

To see only what is immediately in front of one, ie not to see the long-term consequences of one's actions, etc

on the nose

  1. (in horse-race betting) to win only (not to come second or third)
  2. Exactly (N Am inf)
  3. Unsavoury, offensive (Aust informal)

put someone's nose out of joint see under join

rub someone's nose in it (informal)

To remind someone continually of something he or she has done wrong

snap off someone's nose

To speak snappily

through the nose

At a scandalously high price, exorbitantly

thrust, poke or stick one's nose into

To meddle officiously with

thumb one's nose see under thumb

turn up one's nose at (informal)

To refuse or receive contemptuously

under one's (very) nose (informal)

  1. In full view
  2. Close at hand

with one's nose in the air

In a haughty, superior manner
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