💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lead off"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| commenceverb | (intransitive) To begin, start. |
| beginverb | (ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. |
| startverb | The beginning of an activity. |
| lead astrayverb | (transitive) To misguide or misdirect. |
| leadoff hitternoun | (baseball) The first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game. |
| opening batsmannoun | (cricket) The first batsman of an innings. |
| lineupnoun | (sports) Collectively, the members of a team. |
| number onenoun | (idiomatic) First; foremost; best, often used after its headword. |
| first | Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. |
| hit batsmannoun | (baseball) A batter who is hit by a pitched ball, and is awarded first base as a result. |
| starternoun | Someone who starts, or who starts something. |
| openernoun | A person who opens something. |
| starting pitchernoun | (baseball) A pitcher who is usually used to start a game; a member of a team's rotation. Compare relief pitcher. |
| cleanup hitternoun | (baseball) the fourth batter in the batting order, usually a power hitter |
| batternoun | (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying. |
| single | Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. |
| batting ordernoun | (cricket, baseball, softball) The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat. |
| linenoun | A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. |
| first basenoun | (baseball) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield. |
| top ordernoun | (cricket) The batsmen who bat in the first few positions. |
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