inlead

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6

Definition of inlead

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To lead into; conduct.
    “Helge Lundholm new afferent or inleading processes might be set up tending, themselves, towards the mathematical point of interaction”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To lead into; conduct.
    “Helge Lundholm new afferent or inleading processes might be set up tending, themselves, towards the mathematical point of interaction”
  2. To lead from within.
    “Emanuel Swedenborg When man is in the former state, the Lord inflows and inleads immediately”

noun

  1. A conduit, channel or wire leading into a container or device.
    “a cathode inlead”
    “inlead tube”

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Etymology

From Middle English inleden (“to lead or bring in, introduce”), from Old English inlǣdan (“to lead in, bring in, introduce, conduct”), equivalent to in- + lead. Cognate with Dutch inleiden (“to initiate; introduce”), German einleiten (“to initiate; introduce”), Danish indlede (“to introduce”), Swedish inleda (“to introduce”).

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