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Answer for the clue "Ahead ", 7 letters:
leading

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 Providing guidance or direction. 2 Ranking first. 3 Occurring in advance; preceding. n. An act by which one is lead or guided v (present participle of lead English) Etymology 2 n. (context typography English) Vertical space added between lines; ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Leading is the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type. Leading may also refer to: Leading actor , the actor who plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play Leading Comics , a comic book published by what is now DC Comics during the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "a bringing by force," from present participle of lead (v.1). Meaning "direction, guidance" is from late 14c. As an adjective, "directing, guiding."

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lead \Lead\ (l[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Led (l[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Leading .] [OE. leden, AS. l[=ae]dan (akin to OS. l[=e]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac eth]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[eth]an to go; akin to OHG. ...

Usage examples of leading.

Then someone was helping her, telling her in some strange accent to bring him in here, hands guiding her shoulders, leading her into a tent with a soft glow of lamplight.

They walked through the tunnels, Azareel leading and Acies in the back.

I must now make my readers acquainted with the sort of life we were at that time leading in Corfu.

But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.

With a loss of some two hundred men the leading regiments succeeded in reaching Colenso, and the West Surrey, advancing by rushes of fifty yards at a time, had established itself in the station, but a catastrophe had occurred at an earlier hour to the artillery which was supporting it which rendered all further advance impossible.

Convinced I could see nothing, she led me down the alley, leading me like an aerialist beckoning on the high wire.

She found a patha well-worn path leading from the riverand followed it just out of sight, afoot, leaving Hellsbane tethered in a safe place hidden by the underbrush.

The fairing for the towed array extended longitudinally aft from the leading edge of the sail to the stern.

Keebes pushed through the door leading aft into a room the full forty-two-foot width of the submarine.

Without stopping to shut the hatch Sai climbed through and ran along the tight tunnel leading to the aft compartment, and felt the deck tilt as the ship turned at high speed.

Americans thought NOW and other leading feminist organizations were selling out, for one and only one reason: Bill Clinton supported their agenda, especially their agenda on abortion.

If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.

He does four-fifths of the agricultural labor of the South and thereby adds four-fifths to the wealth of the South derived from agriculture, the leading Southern industry.

The senior Aikido sensei was said to be a most remarkable man, possessed of ki and the leading figure of his discipline but his pupil Sato, though promising, was not of that caliber.

Mark leading the way, they rounded still another corner, brushing past nurses and candy stripers, meditative interns and the aimlessly ambling, dull-eyed relatives of the ailing.