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"text": "Avoid leading questions if you really want the truth.",
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}
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"provide"
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"guidance",
"guidance"
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"direction",
"direction"
]
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "водещ"
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"word": "johdatteleva"
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"sense": "providing guidance",
"word": "principale"
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"text": "He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.",
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"Ranking first."
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "ranking first",
"word": "johtava"
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"lang": "Greek",
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{
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"word": "maggiore"
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{
"word": "lagging"
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{
"word": "trailing"
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"text": "The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "edeltävä"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "preceding",
"word": "vorangehend"
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},
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"ref": "1792, William Carey, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the",
"text": "It has been said that we ought not to force our way, but to wait for the openings, and leadings of Providence; but it might with equal propriety be answered in this case, neither ought we to neglect embracing those openings in providence which daily present themselves to us.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning",
"text": "In his poetic method each writer followed the leadings of his own genius, without reference to common rules and standards; the individualism of the Revolutionary epoch asserted itself to the full.",
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"An act by which one is led or guided."
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"Command of an army or military unit."
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"army"
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[
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"military"
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[
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"(archaic) Command of an army or military unit."
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"pos1": "chemical element"
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[
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[
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[
"add",
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[
"lines",
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[
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"(typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing."
],
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"media",
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "linipaŝo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "rivivälistys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "interligne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zeilenabstand"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Interlinea"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zeilendurchschuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Durchschuss"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diásticho",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "διάστιχο"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"vertical"
],
[
"space",
"space#Noun"
],
[
"add",
"add"
],
[
"lines",
"line#Noun"
],
[
"line spacing",
"line spacing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"publishing",
"typography"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛdɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛdɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "linipaŝo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "rivivälistys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "interligne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zeilenabstand"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Interlinea"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zeilendurchschuss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Durchschuss"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diásticho",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "διάστιχο"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "sorköz"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scaradh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "interlinea"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leading"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "entrelinha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espaçamento entre linhas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "interlinʹjaž",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "интерлиньяж"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "entrelínea"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "radavstånd"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Vertical space added between lines",
"word": "rhynglinellu"
}
],
"word": "leading"
}
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