Lead
Lead verb - To be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction.
Usage example: this old road leads to an abandoned quarry
Span and lead are semantically related. in guide physically topic. In some cases you can use "Span" instead a verb "Lead".
Span
Span verb - To find out the size, extent, or amount of.
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Synonyms for Span
Nearby Word: spanned
How words are described
| good | good lead | good span |
| high | high lead | high span |
| particular | particular lead | particular span |
| normal | normal lead | normal span |
| Other adjectives: typical, common, certain, original, true, single, entire, massive, enormous, black, significant, several, comic. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- During this span, Sanders sang lead on nearly everything except "True Heart", which had Allen.
Source: Step Up to the Microphone - And apparently over the span of a few centuries, this occurred so much it lead to the creation of an entire race.
Source: Adam and Eve Plot -
They even lead different squadrons together for a time span of about 30 years after the events of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
Source: Battle Couple
Cite this Source
Span and Lead. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lead/span
Lead & Span. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lead/span>.
Span or Lead. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lead/span.
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