Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb and atomic number 82.
Lead or The Lead may also refer to:
Animal handling
edit- Leash, or lead
- Lead (leg), the leg that advances most in a quadruped's cantering or galloping stride
- Lead (tack), a line used to lead a horse
Arts, entertainment, and media
editJournalism
edit- Lead (news), the leading news story or leading part of a news story
- Lead, information from a source that leads to the uncovering of more interesting information
- Lead paragraph, the opening paragraph of an article
Music
edit- Concepts
- Lead sheet, a musical score describing the essential elements of a song
- Lead, type of voice, or patch, in synthesizer
- Lead instrument
- Lead vocalist
- Guitar solo, a solo performed by the lead guitar
- Other
- Lead (band), a Japanese hip-hop group
- "Lead", a song by Matt Brouwer from Imagerical
- The Lead (EP), an extended play by British girl group FLO
Performance
edit- Leading actor
- Lead and follow, the direction or guidance one dance partner communicates to the other
Television
edit- The Lead, a 2017 Singaporean television series
- The Lead with Jake Tapper, an American news program
Marketing and sales
edit- Pay per lead, a method of marketing
- Sales lead, a potential customer
Places
edit- Lead, North Yorkshire, a civil parish in England
- Lead, South Dakota, a city in the United States
Sports
edit- Lead (curling), a curling position
- Lead climbing
- Lead off, in baseball, a baserunner's position from the base he occupies
- Several meanings in card games; see Glossary of card game terms#L
Other uses
edit- Honda Lead, a model of scooter
- Lead, in international finance, expediting payment to take advantage of an expected change in exchange rates; see Leads and lags
- Lead, in project management, the amount of time to start an activity before a successor activity is finished, in project management
- LEAD (diode), a light-emitting and -absorbing diode
- Lead (electronics), a metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment
- Lead (engineering)
- Lead (geology), a subsurface feature with the potential to have entrapped oil or gas
- Lead (sea ice), a temporary stretch of open water in pack ice
- Lead compound, a chemical compound in drug discovery (not necessarily with lead the metal)
- Pencil lead, the graphite ("lead"), the writing core of a pencil
- Sounding lead or sounding line, a line used to measure water depth
- Tetraethyllead or lead, a gasoline additive
See also
editWikimedia Commons has media related to lead.
- Lead ochre
- Leading, the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type
- Leading-tone or leading-note
- Lead–lag compensator, a component in a control system
- LED, a type of diode
- Lede (disambiguation)
- Pb (disambiguation)
- Valve timing parameter - valve lead
- Voice leading
- All pages with titles beginning with Lead
- All pages with titles containing Lead