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English meaning

  • bob verb To move up and down repeatedly, especially near the surface of water.
  • came verb Past tense of "come" — used to describe something arriving or happening in the past.
  • lead noun A soft, heavy, bluish-grey metal, chemical symbol Pb.
  • pellet noun A small, hard, compressed lump of material.

Senses

铅 is used for these senses in English:

  • bob The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
  • came A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.
  • lead (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
  • lead (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
  • lead shot Small balls of lead, used as projectiles in shotguns, and as a weight in angling, etc.
  • pellet A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  • plumb bob A metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line.

bob — full definition

  1. verb To move up and down repeatedly, especially near the surface of water.
  2. noun A short haircut where the hair is cut evenly around the head, roughly to jaw or shoulder length.
  3. noun British informal: a shilling, or more generally a small amount of money.

came — full definition

  1. verb Past tense of "come" — used to describe something arriving or happening in the past.
  2. noun A thin strip of metal, traditionally lead, used to join pieces of glass together in a stained-glass window.

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