leadings
- 1Plural of leading.
The typesetter tried several leadings before settling on one that suited the body text.
Restorers carefully removed the corroded leadings holding the stained glass together.
Note
A plural that the typographer's sense only half allows. Line spacing is normally uncountable, so a printer adds more leading, not more leadings. The plural appears when distinct spacing settings are being compared, as when a designer tries several. The countable sense, an act by which someone is led or guided, takes the plural freely. The verb form leading, a participle and gerund, never takes -s at all.
leadings is a form of leading
leading, noun: Guidance that leads or directs someone, or the act of giving it. Full entry
- Forms
- leadingleadings plural
- Spelling
- leading → leadings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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