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led

1

[ led ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of lead 1.


LED

2

[ el-ee-dee, led ]

noun

  1. light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.

LED

1

abbreviation for

  1. light-emitting diode


led

2

/ lɛd /

verb

  1. See lead
    the past tense and past participle of lead 1

LED

/ ĕl′ē-dē,lĕd /

  1. Short for light-emitting diode. An electronic semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. They are considerably more efficient than incandescent bulbs, and rarely burn out. LEDs are used in many applications such as flat-screen video displays, and increasingly as general sources of light.


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  • un·led adjective
  • well-led adjective

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Example Sentences

Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.

Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.

The advisers, led by Suleimani, included none other than Taghavi.

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.

They ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.

I turned round, thrust my purse into the lap of the nearest, and with a light heart led the lady back to the hotel.

If he didn't give it to me, I took it, for fear I should be led to do anything wrong, through not having it.

This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.

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