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leeward tide
  • n  a tide that runs in the same direction as the wind is blowing
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leeward islands
  • n  a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
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lector
  • n  someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
  • n  a public lecturer at certain universities
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lecture
  • n  a speech that is open to the public
    he attended a lecture on telecommunications
  • n  a lengthy rebuke
    a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
  • n  teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
  • v  deliver a lecture or talk
    Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
  • v  censure severely or angrily
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lecture demonstration
  • n  presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about
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lecturer
  • n  a public lecturer at certain universities
  • n  someone who lectures professionally
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lecturing
  • n  teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
  • v  deliver a lecture or talk
  • v  censure severely or angrily
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lecythidaceae
  • n  large tropical trees bearing large fruits with woody skins
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led
  • n  diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
  • v  take somebody somewhere
  • v  have as a result or residue
  • v  tend to or result in
  • v  travel in front of; go in advance of others
  • v  cause to undertake a certain action
    Her greed led her to forge the checks
  • v  stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
    His knowledge doesn't go very far
  • v  be in charge of
  • v  be ahead of others; be the first
  • v  be conducive to
  • v  lead, as in the performance of a composition; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • v  lead, extend, or afford access
  • v  move ahead (of others) in time or space
  • v  cause something to pass or lead somewhere
  • v  preside over
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leda
  • n  (Greek mythology) a queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan; Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda
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ledbetter
  • n  United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)
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ledercillin vk
  • n  a form of penicillin V (trade name Ledercillin VK)
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lederhosen
  • n  leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria
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ledge
  • n  a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
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