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📰 With extra spacing 🪟 With lead strips ⚗️ Contains lead
leaded

leaded

1 8.1
Text with extra space between lines to make reading easier
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɛdɪd/
  • Archaic
translation icon : con interlineado
  • The publisher requested all poetry to be leaded to give the lines more space.

Examples

  • The leaded type in the book made it easier to read.

  • The old books were printed with leaded text to make reading easier.

  • Designers sometimes prefer a leaded layout for better readability.

  • This document uses leaded text for better clarity.

  • The advertisement was printed on leaded paper to make the text easier to read.

  • Using leaded spacing in the document helped enhance the overall clarity of the printed material.

  • The design included leaded text that improved the visual appeal of the newsletter.

Compounds

leaded gasoline
  • Archaic
1 6.5

Gasoline with lead added to reduce engine knocking but harms health

leaded bronze
  • Specialized
7.2

A metal mix of copper with a small soft metal added to make it easy to shape and cut

leaded petrol
  • Archaic
5.8

Fuel that contains a small amount of lead to stop engine knocking

How Spaced

leaded
  • Archaic
1 8.1

Surface Forms

leaded positive

Morphology

leaded = lead (transparent) = lead + ed

Formed from 'lead' (the metal used as spacing strips in printing) + '-ed'; the printing sense is a direct application of the metal term.

Etymology

Leaded comes from the metal lead, because printers put thin strips of lead between lines to make more space, so leaded text has extra space between its lines.