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How to pronounce lede in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lead, lead-in
Type of section, subdivision

Examples of lede

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For whatever reason, no one ever mentioned the other LEDE firm vying for routes.
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I seek a verifiable citation to the opening paragraph of the lede of an article.
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Well Jack, maybe you should leave something of the previous version in the lede.
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But is it what a layperson reading the article will understand the lede to mean?
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It is not the purpose of the lede to describe every exception and special case.
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The other editors have concerns that your lede is too long, despite its merits.
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This is also used by the lede edit section gadget to correct offset even further.
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This is actually just a cropped and far less blurry image of the one in the lede.
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There appears to be a fierce attempt to install a POV in the lede of this article.
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More examples
  • Lead: the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter"
  • Lede is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Impe, Lede proper, Oordegem, Smetlede, Wanzele and Papegem. On January 1, 2006 Lede had a total population of 17,068. The total area is 29. ...
  • The Lu00E8de is a 54-kilometre (34u00A0mi) long river in the Lot-et-Garonne du00E9partement, south-western France, right tributary of the Lot River. Its source is near Lacapelle-Biron. It flows generally southwest through the town Monflanquin and flows into the Lot in Casseneuil.
  • A lead paragraph in literature refers to the opening paragraph of an article, essay, news story or book chapter. ...
  • (LEDES) The Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard is a set of file format specifications intended to standardize bill/invoice data transmitted electronically ("e-billed") from a law firm to a corporate client. It is abbreviated LEDES and is usually pronounced as "leeds".
  • (singular) A man; person; (collective plural) Men; people, folk; (singular) A people or nation; (plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions
  • The first and most important sentence of the story. It sets up what the story is going to be about.
  • The start of a piece of writing. It is spelled this way to prevent confusion with lead, the metal that was used extensively in hot-type days, and a term that refers to the spacing of lines in a printed text
  • The phonetic spelling of lead, the beginning, usually the first paragraph, of an article, so spelled as to indicate the specialized meaning rather than the common meaning to a Linotype operator. (courtesy of John E McIntyre)