Lead (disambiguation) explained
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
- Other
Performance
Television
Marketing and sales
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
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