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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈliːdɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈlidɪŋ/
• 韻: -iːdɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: lead‧ing

動詞

leading

1. present participle and gerund of lead
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

形容詞

leading (not comparable)

1. Providing guidance or direction.

   Avoid leading questions if you really want the truth.

2. Ranking first.

   He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.

3. Occurring in advance; preceding.

   Antonyms: following, lagging, trailing

   The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.

   • 2025 July 9, Oliver Wheeler, “Action stations...”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 68:

     Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.

等位語

• (occurring in advance): concurrent, lagging

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 leding, ledyng, ledinge, ledunge, equivalent to lead +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch leiding (“conduit, leading, guidance, leadership”), German Leitung (“line, conduit, cable”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈliːdɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈlidɪŋ/
• 韻: -iːdɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: lead‧ing

名詞

leading (plural leadings)

1. An act by which one is led or guided.
   • 1792, William Carey, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the‎:

     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.

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song for Occupations”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 5, page 175:

     I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop, / I do not say leadings you thought great are not great, / But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.

   • 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning‎:

     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.

2. (archaic) Command of an army or military unit.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe,
     That by Characters grauen in thy browes,
     And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect,
     Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 leedynge, equivalent to lead (chemical element) +‎ -ing; so named because in metal typesetting (letterpress and hot metal typesetting), pieces of lead (slugs, strips, blocks, etc) were often the mechanical means of producing the gap.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈlɛdɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɛdɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: lead‧ing

名詞

leading (uncountable)

1. (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

   Hypernym: white space

Further reading

• leading on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Negidal, adeling, aligned, dealign, dealing, diangle, lagenid, leidang