Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Separated or spaced by the insertion of thin strips of type-metal between the lines: said of composed types.
  • Fitted or furnished with lead.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Fitted with lead; set in lead.
  • adjective (Print.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Held on place by strips of lead.
  • adjective Containing or treated with the element lead.
  • adjective Containing tetraethyllead
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lead.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having thin strips of lead between the lines of type
  • adjective treated or mixed with lead
  • adjective (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead

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Examples

  • He seems even to be implying not only that candy should not be made in leaded and unleaded versions, but that other products should meet common (higher) standards.

    Post deleted by ET 2004

  • By 1980 the National Academy of Sciences called leaded gasoline the greatest single source of atmospheric lead pollution.

    See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part II 2008

  • In 1980, the National Academy of Sciences called leaded gasoline the greatest sources of atmospheric lead pollution.

    Dan Agin: Lead Redux: An Unfinished Horror Story 2008

  • We don't use leaded gasoline in the United States anymore, but more because people simply don't like the idea of leaded gasoline as opposed to any body of science showing that it caused anybody any harm.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2010

  • There were other possible additives known at the time, all of them less hazardous than TEL, but the manufacture of TEL-gas, "leaded" gas, was protected by patent, while other possible additives were not protected.

    Dan Agin: Lead Redux: An Unfinished Horror Story 2008

  • When I visited Scotland, I enjoyed both the veggie and 'leaded' versions of haggis, not that I'd want them every day though.

    Neth Space Neth 2007

  • He reports: "The 'leaded' males have produced as many or more offspring than normal fathers, but their young have averaged smaller in size and are of lowered vitality, so that larger numbers of them die off at an early age than is the case with those from untreated fathers."

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • Inside them are low-ceilinged rooms that flow from space to space, with intimate spaces including "inglenooks," fireplaces with seats on either side of the hearth mixed with dramatic surprises, and the use throughout of features such as leaded art glass, organic materials and geometric shapes.

    TradingMarkets 2010

  • He got his morning decaf and I drank my 'leaded' fuel for the day.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • He got his morning decaf and I drank my 'leaded' fuel for the day.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

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