Lead and Showing

Lead

Lead verb - To point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front.

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Showing and lead are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Showing" with "Lead", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

Showing noun - The display of a motion picture.

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Lead and showing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lead" instead a verb "Showing".

Nearby Words: show, showy, showed, showcase, shown

human	human lead	human showing
good	good lead	good showing
normal	normal lead	normal showing
certain	certain lead	certain showing
Other adjectives: current, original, initial, single, strong, actual, real, big, great, enormous, main, young, decent, new, early, latter, comic.

He has a girl who had the lead singing role whose family was coming in from across the country to watch her perform get Demoted to Extra in the play, and shoving Joan into the lead for no explainable reason besides showing her that she is good at singing.

Source: Series / Joan of Arcadia
Instead of the promotional posters showing the large image of the film's lead, Chiwetel Ejiofor, his image is mostly replaced by a huge one of Brad Pitt who has a small role in the film.

Source: Wolverine Publicity
He begins ignoring his boss, showing up to work to play Tetris, and wooing the female lead.

Source: Madden Into Misanthropy

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