Lead (disambiguation)

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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

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

See also

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