Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the lead from.
- transitive verb Printing To extricate the leads from between (lines of type).
from The Century Dictionary.
- In printing, to remove the leads from (composed types).
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Examples
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And if we can't get more refineries online and can't churn out more of the high grade unlead, that's where we're in trouble.
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I've got $100 in my Adwords account, ready to unlead on a campaign and make some money, what in your opinion is the best way to spend this?
Digital Point Forums 2010
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I've got $100 in my Adwords account, ready to unlead on a campaign and make some money, what in your opinion is the best way to spend this?
Digital Point Forums 2010
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I've try unlead video to capture the same frame, but the software degrate the quality of the picture.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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Northanymbr. _, has "unlead, nomen opprobrii;" but he gives a false derivation: Grose, in his _Provincial Glossary_, "unleed or unlead, a general name for any crawling venomous creature, as a toad,
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