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De - Pt| English Dictionary: leading wheel | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Leading \Lead"ing\, a. Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- {Lead"ing*ly}, adv. {Leading case} (Law), a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. --Abbott. {Leading motive} [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. {Leading note} (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale; the sensible note. {Leading question}, a question so framed as to guide the person questioned in making his reply. {Leading strings}, strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk. {To be in leading strings}, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or under the guidance of others. {Leading wheel}, a wheel situated before the driving wheels of a locomotive engine. | |
