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, 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
Substances Lead compound, a chemical compound in drug discovery (, not the metal lead) Type metal, a lead alloy used in typesetting Tetraethyllead, a gasoline additive Pencil lead, the graphite writing core of a pencil
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), the axial advance of a helix or screw during one complete turn (360°) 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 Sounding lead or sounding line, a line used to measure water depth Bullets, metonymically Valve lead, piston engine timing parameter
See also Compounds of lead Lead–lag compensator, a component in a control system Leading (disambiguation) LED (disambiguation) Lede (disambiguation)