In geology, a lode is a deposit of  ore that fills or is embedded in a fissure (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. The current meaning (ore vein) dates from the 17th century, being an expansion of an earlier sense of a ‘channel, watercourse’ in late Middle English, which in turn is from the 11th-century meaning of lode as a ‘course, way’.

Lodè is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about northeast of Nuoro. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,110 and an area of .

Thierry Lodé (born 1956, Tarbes) is a French biologist and professor of evolutionary ecology in a CNRS lab at the University of Rennes 1. He is also the vice president of a council for natural and biodiversity preservation, thus contributing to conservation biology. Lodé chiefly works to protect otters, polecats, minks, beavers, and amphibians.