Lead (disambiguation)

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

Lead may also refer to:

Animal handling

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

Performance

Television

Brands and enterprises

Marketing and sales

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

Places

Sports

Other uses

  • 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

See also

  • Leading, the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type
  • Leading-tone or leading-note
  • Lede (disambiguation)
  • Voice leading
  • LED, a type of diode
  • Pb (disambiguation)
  • Isotopes of lead
  • All pages with titles beginning with Lead
  • All pages with titles containing Lead
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