"leadoff" meaning in English

See leadoff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} leadoff (not comparable)
  1. Beginning something by leading the way. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Baseball Derived forms: leadoff hitter
    Sense id: en-leadoff-en-adj-JWjuuk5a Disambiguation of Baseball: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav Forms: leadoffs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} leadoff (plural leadoffs)
  1. Alternative spelling of lead off Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lead off Categories (topical): Baseball
    Sense id: en-leadoff-en-noun-ExIsyHax Disambiguation of Baseball: 46 54

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leadoffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leadoff (plural leadoffs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "lead off"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of lead off"
      ],
      "id": "en-leadoff-en-noun-ExIsyHax",
      "links": [
        [
          "lead off",
          "lead off#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leadoff"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "leadoff (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "leadoff hitter"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The leadoff batter began the inning with a double, setting a good example for the following players. (Common baseball usage.)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beginning something by leading the way."
      ],
      "id": "en-leadoff-en-adj-JWjuuk5a",
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leadoff"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Baseball"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leadoffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leadoff (plural leadoffs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "lead off"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of lead off"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lead off",
          "lead off#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leadoff"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Baseball"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "leadoff hitter"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "leadoff (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The leadoff batter began the inning with a double, setting a good example for the following players. (Common baseball usage.)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Beginning something by leading the way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadoff.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-leadoff.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leadoff"
}

Download raw JSONL data for leadoff meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.