Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 275

Number of Answers: 60

Points Needed for Genius: 193

Genius requires between 27 and 53 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 275 was in the 90th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 16, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 60 possible answers rank it in the 92nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 12, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on February 17, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 191
  • loll 183
  • toot 181
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 134
  • till 134
  • tilt 134
  • tint 133
  • nene 126
  • mama 125
  • mamma 125
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • acacia 117
  • acai 117
  • anal 112
  • onion 112
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • anon 108
  • baba 106
  • olio 105
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • dodo 102
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • mitt 102
  • call 101
  • calla 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tutu 99
  • attar 98
  • tatty 98
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 95
  • peep 95
  • loot 92
  • lotto 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 97,438 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,462 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • accoladed
  • ackee
  • acock
  • acold
  • akee
  • akela
  • alae
  • alcade
  • alcalde
  • alcool
  • aldol
  • alec
  • alee
  • allee
  • allod
  • caca
  • cade
  • cadelle
  • caeca
  • caecal
  • calk
  • calked
  • callee
  • calo
  • ceca
  • cecal
  • cella
  • cellae
  • cladded
  • cladode
  • cloacae
  • cloacal
  • coala
  • coaled
  • coccal
  • cockaded
  • colead
  • dace
  • dada
  • daddle
  • daddled
  • dado
  • dadoed
  • daedal
  • decadal
  • dedal
  • delead
  • deleaded
  • ekka
  • elodea
  • kaka
  • laked
  • lall
  • lalled
  • leal
  • loca
  • oaked
  • odea
  • olea
  • olla

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

accede

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

acceded

verb
  1. To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  2. To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  3. To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  4. To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  5. To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

accolade

noun
  1. An expression of approval; praise.
  2. A special acknowledgment; an award.
  3. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
  4. A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
  5. A brace used to join two or more staves.
  6. Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
  7. An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.
verb
  1. To embrace or kiss in salutation.
  2. To confer a knighthood on.
  3. To confer praise or awards on.
noun
  1. Either of the two characters { and }, i.e., left curly bracket left curly bracket and right curly bracket right curly bracket, with the shape of a curved, pointed line, having various uses in math, music, and computer programming.

aced

verb
  1. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
  2. To win a point by an ace.
  3. To make an ace (hole in one).

added

verb
  1. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
  2. To sum up; to put together mentally.
  3. To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
  4. To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
  5. To append (e,g, a statement); to say further information.
  6. To make an addition; to augment; to increase.
  7. To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
  8. To summon minions or reinforcements.

addle

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
  2. (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
noun
  1. Liquid filth; mire.
  2. (provincial) Lees; dregs.
verb
  1. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
  2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
adjective
  1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  2. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.

addled

verb
  1. (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
  2. (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
verb
  1. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
  2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
adjective
  1. (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
  2. Confused; mixed up.
  3. Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

alack

interjection
  1. An expression of sorrow or mourning.

allele

noun
  1. One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

aloe

noun
  1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
  2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
  3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

cacao

noun
  1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
  2. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

cackle

noun
  1. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
  2. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
  3. Futile or excessively noisy talk.
  4. A group of hyenas.
verb
  1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  2. To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
  3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

cackled

verb
  1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  2. To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
  3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

cake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  4. A block of any of various dense materials.
  5. A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
  6. Money.
  7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
  8. A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
verb
  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cackle like a goose.

caked

verb
  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.
verb
  1. To cackle like a goose.
adjective
  1. (smoking, of a pipe) Empty with nothing left to smoke but ash.

call

noun
  1. A telephone conversation.
  2. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
  3. A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
  4. A cry or shout.
  5. A decision or judgement.
  6. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
  7. A beckoning or summoning.
  8. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
  9. An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
  10. The act of calling to the other batsman.
  11. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
  12. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
  13. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  14. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  15. The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  16. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  17. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  18. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
  19. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  20. Vocation; employment; calling.
  21. A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
  22. (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
verb
  1. (heading) To use one's voice.
  2. (heading) To visit.
  3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
  4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
  5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  7. To demand repayment of a loan.
  8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

calla

noun
  1. A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
  2. The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica.

callaloo

noun
  1. Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genus Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
  2. A spicy soup or stew made from such leaves.

called

verb
  1. (heading) To use one's voice.
  2. (heading) To visit.
  3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
  4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
  5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  7. To demand repayment of a loan.
  8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

clack

noun
  1. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
  2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  3. Chatter; prattle.
  4. The tongue.
verb
  1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  2. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
  4. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

clacked

verb
  1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  2. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
  4. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

clad

verb
  1. (past tense clad) To clothe.
  2. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop.
  3. (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality)
adjective
  1. (in compounds) Wearing clothing of a specified type.
  2. (in compounds) Covered, enveloped in or surrounded by a specified material or substance.
verb
  1. To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  2. To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

clade

noun
  1. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  2. A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
verb
  1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

cloaca

noun
  1. (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
  2. The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
  3. An outhouse or lavatory.
  4. A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

cloak

noun
  1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  3. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  4. A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
verb
  1. To cover as with a cloak.
  2. To hide or conceal.
  3. To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

cloaked

verb
  1. To cover as with a cloak.
  2. To hide or conceal.
  3. To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
adjective
  1. Wearing a cloak.
  2. Covered, hidden, disguised.

coal

noun
  1. A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
  2. A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
  3. A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
  4. A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
  5. Charcoal.
verb
  1. To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
  2. To supply with coal.
  3. To be converted to charcoal.
  4. To burn to charcoal; to char.
  5. To mark or delineate with charcoal.

coca

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

cockade

noun
  1. A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.
  2. An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.

cocoa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
  2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  3. A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
  4. A serving of this drink.
  5. A light to medium brown colour.
adjective
  1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coconut palm.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

coda

noun
  1. A person born hearing to deaf parents.
noun
  1. A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  2. The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  3. In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  4. A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

cola

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ":".
  2. The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
noun
  1. Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

dale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

dead

noun
  1. (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
noun
  1. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
noun
  1. (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
  1. To prevent by disabling; stop.
  2. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  3. To kill.
adjective
  1. No longer living.
  2. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  5. Without emotion.
  6. Stationary; static.
  7. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  8. Unproductive.
  9. (of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  10. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  11. Broken or inoperable.
  12. No longer used or required.
  13. Not imparting motion or power by design.
  14. Not in play.
  15. (of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  16. (1800s) Tagged out.
  17. Full and complete.
  18. Exact.
  19. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  20. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  21. Bringing death; deadly.
  22. Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  23. (often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adverb
  1. (degree) Exactly.
  2. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
  3. Suddenly and completely.
  4. As if dead.

deadlock

noun
  1. A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse
  2. An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.
verb
  1. To cause or to come to a deadlock.

deadlocked

verb
  1. To cause or to come to a deadlock.

deal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A division, a portion, a share.
  2. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of dealing or sharing out.
  2. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  3. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction
  4. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  5. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
  6. A situation, occasion, or event.
  7. A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
verb
  1. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  2. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  3. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  4. To pitch.
  5. To have dealings or business.
  6. To conduct oneself, to behave.
  7. To take action; to act.
  8. To trade professionally (followed by in).
  9. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  10. To be concerned with.
  11. To handle, to manage, to cope.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  2. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  3. A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
adjective
  1. Made of deal.

decade

noun
  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
  2. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
  3. The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

decal

noun
  1. A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.
  2. A decorative sticker.
verb
  1. To apply decals to.

doodad

noun
  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

kale

noun
  1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
  2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
  3. Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
  4. Money.

koala

noun
  1. A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

kola

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
noun
  1. A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
  2. A nut of this tree.

lace

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
  2. A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp
  3. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
  4. Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To fasten (something) with laces.
  2. To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
  3. To interweave items.
  4. To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
  5. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
  6. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

laced

verb
  1. To fasten (something) with laces.
  2. To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
  3. To interweave items.
  4. To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
  5. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
  6. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
adjective
  1. Fastened or adorned with lace.
  2. Tainted with something, especially a drug.

lack

noun
  1. A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
verb
  1. To be without, to need, to require.
  2. To be short (of or for something).
  3. To be in want.
  4. To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

lacked

verb
  1. To be without, to need, to require.
  2. To be short (of or for something).
  3. To be in want.
  4. To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

lade

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A load.
verb
  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The mouth of a river.
  2. A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  3. Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

laded

verb
  1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
  4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. To admit water by leakage.

ladle

noun
  1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  2. A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
  3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
  4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
verb
  1. To pour or serve something with a ladle.

ladled

verb
  1. To pour or serve something with a ladle.

lake

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  2. A large, landlocked stretch of water.
  3. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
  4. A pit, or ditch

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  2. Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
verb
  1. To present an offering.
  2. To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A kind of fine, white linen.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  2. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
verb
  1. To make lake-red.

lead

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
  2. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
  3. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
  4. Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
  5. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
  6. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
  7. A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
  8. Bullets; ammunition.
verb
  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead
  2. To place leads between the lines of.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
  2. Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
  3. An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
  4. The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
  5. The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
  6. The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
  7. The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
  8. A channel of open water in an ice field.
  9. A lode.
  10. The course of a rope from end to end.
  11. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
  12. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
  13. Charging lead.
  14. The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
  15. The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
  16. Hypothesis that has not been pursued
  17. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
  18. Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
  19. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
  20. The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
  21. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
  22. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
  23. The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
  24. In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
  25. The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
  26. A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
  27. The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
  28. The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
  29. The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
verb
  1. (heading) To guide or conduct.
  2. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
  3. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
  4. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
  5. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
  6. To produce (with to).
  7. (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
adjective
  1. Foremost.
  2. Main, principal

leaded

verb
  1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead
  2. To place leads between the lines of.
adjective
  1. Held in place by strips of lead.
  2. Containing or treated with the element lead.
  3. Containing tetraethyllead.

leak

noun
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
  4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  6. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  7. (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
verb
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
adjective
  1. Leaky.

leaked

verb
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
adjective
  1. Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

load

noun
  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
  2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  4. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
  5. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  6. (often in the plural) A large number or amount.
  7. The volume of work required to be performed.
  8. The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  9. The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  10. A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  11. Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  13. The viral load
  14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  15. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  16. Weight or violence of blows.
  17. The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  18. Nonsense; rubbish.
  19. The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
verb
  1. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  2. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  3. To put a load on something.
  4. To receive a load.
  5. To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  6. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  7. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  8. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  9. To be put into use in an apparatus.
  10. To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  11. To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  12. To put runners on first, second and third bases
  13. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  14. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  16. To provide in abundance.
  17. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. To adulterate or drug.
  19. To magnetize.

loaded

verb
  1. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  2. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  3. To put a load on something.
  4. To receive a load.
  5. To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  6. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  7. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  8. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  9. To be put into use in an apparatus.
  10. To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  11. To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  12. To put runners on first, second and third bases
  13. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  14. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  16. To provide in abundance.
  17. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. To adulterate or drug.
  19. To magnetize.
adjective
  1. Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
  2. (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
  3. Possessing great wealth.
  4. Drunk.
  5. Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
  6. (also used figuratively) a die or dice being weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
  7. (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
  8. (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
  9. (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
  10. Covered with a topping or toppings.
  11. Weighted with lead or similar.

local

noun
  1. A person who lives near a given place.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  3. A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
  4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  5. A locally scoped identifier.
  6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
adjective
  1. From or in a nearby location.
  2. (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  3. (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  4. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  5. Descended from an indigenous population.
adverb
  1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
noun
  1. An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

locale

noun
  1. The place where something happens.
  2. The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
  3. A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)