uplead

Noun

uplead (plural upleads)

1. The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna.
   • When the capacity at the top has been made so large compared with the effective capacity of the uplead that the current in the latter is sensibly uniform, the length of that current is sensibly the full height h of the uplead, which is the greatest available height with the given masts.1921, L. B. Turner, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony
   • Effectively, the downlead and uplead for an individual sensor in the simple array becomes the downlead and uplead for a ladder in the subarray.1997, L.S. Grattan, Optical Fiber Sensor Technology: Devices and Technology, page 137

Verb

IPA/ʌpˈliːd/

uplead (third-person singular simple present upleads, present participle upleading, simple past and past participle upled)

1. (rare, transitive) To lead upward.
   • Inestimable good! who giv'st us Truth,
     Whose hand upleads to light, divinest Truth1775, Mr. Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, volume 1