Lead (disambiguation)
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Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb and atomic number 82.
Lead may also refer to:
Places[edit]
- Lead, South Dakota, a city in the United States
Animal handling[edit]
- Lead (leash)
- Lead (leg), the leg that advances most in a quadruped's cantering or galloping stride
- Lead (tack)
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
Journalism[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Lead (band), a Japanese hip-hop group
- Lead sheet
Performance[edit]
- Leading actor or lead
- Lead and follow, the direction or guidance one dance partner communicates to the other
- Lead instrument or lead
- Lead vocalist or lead
- Guitar solo or lead, a solo performed by the lead guitar
- Lead, type of voice, or patch, in synthesizer
Brands and enterprises[edit]
- Honda Lead, a scooter
- LEAD Technologies
Marketing and sales[edit]
- Pay per lead, a method of marketing
- Sales lead, a potential customer
Sports[edit]
- Lead (curling), a curling position
- Lead climbing
- Lead off, in baseball, a baserunner's position from the base he occupies
Other uses[edit]
- 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.
See also[edit]
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- Leading, the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type
- Leading-tone or leading-note
- Lede (disambiguation)
- Voice leading
- Pb (disambiguation)
- Isotopes of lead
- All pages beginning with Lead
- All pages with a title containing Lead
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