'lead to' definitions:
Definition of 'lead to'
From: GCIDE
- lead to \lead to\ v. t.
- 1. Same as cause; as, the roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the
- 1996 Christmas season.
- Syn: result in, lead to. [PJC]
- 2. to be a contributory cause of; as, IBM's inattention to the needs of individual users led to the demise of OS/2 as a viable alternative to Windows 95.
- Syn: be conducive to, contribute to, lead to, conduce to. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Synonyms of 'lead to'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- affect,
- assume,
- bring,
- call for,
- carry to,
- come to,
- comprise,
- conduce to,
- conduct to,
- contain,
- contribute to,
- decide,
- determine,
- direct to,
- entail,
- extend to,
- forward,
- get to,
- go to,
- implicate,
- imply,
- influence,
- involve,
- point out to,
- point the way,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- put right,
- reach to,
- redound to,
- require,
- run to,
- set right,
- set straight,
- show,
- show the way,
- steer,
- stretch away to,
- stretch to,
- subserve,
- subsume,
- take,
- take in,
- turn the scale
Words containing 'lead to'
- Lead,
- Leaded,
- Leading,
- Leadingly,
- To lead off,
- To lead out,
- in the lead,
- lead off,
- lead on,
- lead up,
- leading off,
- Black lead,
- Coasting lead,
- Corroding lead,
- Hand lead,
- Horn lead,
- Kremnitz lead,
- Krems lead,
- Lead Hill,
- Lead angle,
- Lead arming,
- Lead colic,
- Lead color,
- Lead glance,
- Lead line,
- Lead mill,
- Lead ocher,
- Lead pencil,
- Lead plant,
- Lead protoxide,
- Lead screw,
- Lead soap,
- Lead tree,
- Lead, SD,
- Leading case,
- Leading edge,
- Leading motive,
- Leading note,
- Leading question,
- Leading strings,
- Leading wheel,
- Milled lead,
- Mock lead,
- Pencil lead,
- Pot lead,
- Red lead,
- Sounding lead,
- Sponge lead,
- Spongy lead,
- Sugar of lead,
- To arm the lead,
- To be in leading strings,
- To cast the lead,
- To heave the lead,
- To lead astray,
- To lead by the nose,
- To lead captive,
- To lead the way,
- To return a lead,
- To strike a lead,
- White lead,
- antimonial lead,
- clip lead,
- hard lead,
- jumper lead,
- lead acetate,
- lead arsenate,
- lead astray,
- lead bank,
- lead by the nose,
- lead carbonate,
- lead chromate,
- lead glass,
- lead item,
- lead of the ignition,
- lead ore,
- lead orthoplumbate,
- lead oxide,
- lead plaster,
- lead poisoning,
- lead sheet,
- lead story,
- lead tetraethyl,
- lead tetroxide,
- lead the way,
- lead time,
- lead-in,
- leaded bronze,
- leaded gasoline,
- leaded petrol,
- leading astray,
- leading indicator,
- leading lady,
- leading light,
- leading man,
- leading rein,
- leading tone,
- negative lead,
- pig lead,
- tetraethyl lead,
- Green lead ore,
- Lead Hill, AR,
- Red lead ore,
- South Lead Hill,
- To lead one a dance,
- Yellow lead ore,
- black-lead,
- lead oxide yellow,
- lead-colored,
- lead-coloured,
- lead-free,
- white lead ore,
- Deep-sea lead,
- Red-lead ore,
- South Lead Hill, AR,
- lead-acid accumulator,
- lead-acid battery,
- red-lead putty