leader

leader

(1) A length of unrecorded tape used to thread the tape onto the tape drive.

(2) A line of dots or dashes used to draw the eye across the printed page, such as in a table of contents.

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leader

1. Music

a. the principal first violinist of an orchestra, who plays solo parts, and acts as the conductor's deputy and spokesman for the orchestra

b. US a conductor or director of an orchestra or chorus

2. 

a. the first man on a climbing rope

b. the leading horse or dog in a team

3. a statistic or index that gives an advance indication of the state of the economy

4. Angling another word for trace, cast

5. Nautical another term for fairlead

6. a strip of blank film or tape used to facilitate threading a projector, developing machine, etc., and to aid identification

7. Botany any of the long slender shoots that grow from the stem or branch of a tree: usually removed during pruning

8. Brit a member of the Government having primary authority in initiating legislative business (esp in the phrases Leader of the House of Commons and Leader of the House of Lords)

9. the senior barrister, usually a Queen's Counsel, in charge of the conduct of a case