led

¹

[ led ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lead ¹.

LED

²

[ el-ee-dee, led ]

noun

1. light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.

LED

¹

abbreviation for

1. light-emitting diode

led

²

/ lɛd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of lead 1

LED

/ ĕl′ē-dē′,lĕd /

1. Short for light-emitting diode. An electronic semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. They are considerably more efficient than incandescent bulbs, and rarely burn out. LEDs are used in many applications such as flat-screen video displays, and increasingly as general sources of light.
2. See also semiconductor laser

Other Words From

• un·led adjective
• well-led adjective

Example Sentences

The cost of both has dropped at unprecedented rates over the past decade and energy efficient technologies such as LED lighting have also expanded.

From Singularity Hub 

Likewise, our current LED lighting and display technologies are too expensive and not of good enough color quality to realistically replace traditional lighting in a short enough time frame.

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That current can power small electronics, such as a watch or LED lights.

From Science News For Students

Adjust between ten different brightness modes with these 300 LED lights, creating the exact right atmospheric mood.

From Popular-Science

Easily keep these 200 LED lights charged with a USB plug-in installation, which can be plugged into your laptop or power bank.

From Popular-Science

Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.

From The Daily Beast

Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

From The Daily Beast

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.

From The Daily Beast

The advisers, led by Suleimani, included none other than Taghavi.

From The Daily Beast

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

From The Daily Beast

His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.

From Project Gutenberg

They ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.

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I turned round, thrust my purse into the lap of the nearest, and with a light heart led the lady back to the hotel.

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If he didn't give it to me, I took it, for fear I should be led to do anything wrong, through not having it.

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This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.

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