leader.

Any person who leads or directs.

Any person who leads or directs. One who goes first.

Follow the leader.

Any person who leads or directs. One having authority to direct.

We elected her team leader.

Any person who leads or directs. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.

Any person who leads or directs. A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.

Any person who leads or directs. A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.

Any person who leads or directs. The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.

An animal that leads. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

An animal that leads. An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.

An animal that leads. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. An intertitle.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.

Someone or something that leads or conducts. The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.