Lead (disambiguation)

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

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)

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

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

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, a valve timing parameter
LEAD (lower-extremity artery disease or lower-extremity arterial disease), a subgroup of the Peripheral artery disease
Lead compound, a chemical compound in drug discovery (not necessarily with lead the metal)
Lead–lag compensator, a component in a control system
Pencil lead
Sounding lead or sounding line, a line used to measure water depth
Tetraethyllead or lead, a gasoline additive
The word lead can be a component of job titles, e.g. "Lead engineer" or "Marketing lead" where it indicates seniority or a project management role
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 a finish-to-start activity relationship