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

Lead or The Lead may also refer to:

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
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