Lead (disambiguation)

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb and atomic number 82.

Lead or The Lead may also refer to:

Animal handling

 * 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

Journalism

 * 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

 * 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

 * Leading actor
 * Lead and follow, the direction or guidance one dance partner communicates to the other

Television

 * The Lead, a 2017 Singaporean television series
 * The Lead with Jake Tapper, an American news program

Marketing and sales

 * Pay per lead, a method of marketing
 * Sales lead, a potential customer

Places

 * Lead, North Yorkshire, a civil parish in England
 * Lead, South Dakota, a city in the United States

Sports

 * 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

Other uses

 * 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