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 The Lead, a 2017 Singaporean television series The Lead with Jake Tapper, an American news program 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 Leading, the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type Leading-tone or leading-note