Lead (disambiguation)
# 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### 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#L

## 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
