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Definition of Lead-in

1. Noun. The introductory section of a story. "It was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter"

2. Noun. Wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line.

Definition of Lead-in

1. Noun. An introduction, something that leads into the beginning of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead-in

leachers leaches leachier leachiest leaching leachings leachour leachours leachy lead-acid

lead-acid accumulator lead-acid battery lead-footed lead-free lead-in (current term) lead-off lead-out lead-outs lead-pipe cinch lead-pipe rigidity

lead acetate lead anaemia lead arsenate lead astray lead bank lead by the nose lead carbonate lead character lead chromate

Literary usage of Lead-in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In Great Britain the ore is crushed to pass through about a half-inch sieve and is dressed to contain over 76 per cent of lead. In other countries the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The isotopic composition of lead in gasoline additives and in the aerosols ... This indicates that the excess lead in the aerosols can only be attributed to ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Thus the level of the lead is kept approximately constant, and the silver becomes concentrated in the lead. In large works the silver-lead alloy is removed ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"When ground in oil to a paste consistency it is commonly called in the trade whit« lead in oil, colloquially referred to frequently as "white lead. ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"In the fourth experiment, six grains of muriate nf lead, in solution, were injected into the stomach of a strong young rabbit, without being followed by any ..."

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