Definition of Lead sheet

1. Noun. A sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form.

Generic synonyms: Sheet Music

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead Sheet

lead line
lead monoxide
lead neuropathy
lead nowhere
lead off
lead on
lead ore
lead out
lead oxide
lead palsy
lead paralysis
lead pencil
lead plant
lead poisoning
lead radioisotope
lead sheet (current term)
lead shot
lead single
lead someone down the garden path
lead stomatitis
lead storage battery
lead story
lead suboxide
lead sulfate
lead sulfide
lead sulphate
lead tetraethyl
lead tetroxide
lead the line
lead time

Literary usage of Lead sheet

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

1. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"LEAD—Sheet-lead. 7 ft. 10 in. by 5 ft. After remaining in the mould some days to cool, it is lifted out, and the rough edges are trimmed round with an adze. ..."

2. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
"New York, NY LEAD, SHEET.—Storage-battery tank and boxes of the larger sizes ... lead sheet is used her and for several other similar purposes du< to its ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1920)
"FA Vaughn: In the older Milwaukee system practically all is lead sheet ... Of course, the effect from the lead sheet is present on the high-voltage ac. ..."

4. Railway Electrical Engineers' Handbook: Electric Light and Illumination by C. W. Bender (1912)
"The body of the lead sheet serves as a support for the lead peroxide or "active material," as a conductor for the current and as reserve material to be ..."

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