Definitions for guide
gaɪdguide

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. usher, guidenoun

   someone employed to conduct others

2. guidenoun

   someone who shows the way by leading or advising

3. guidebook, guidenoun

   something that offers basic information or instruction

4. template, templet, guidenoun

   a model or standard for making comparisons

5. scout, pathfinder, guidenoun

   someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

6. guideverb

   a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something

7. steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channeliseverb

   direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

8. lead, take, direct, conduct, guideverb

   take somebody somewhere

   "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"

9. guide, steerverb

   be a guiding or motivating force or drive

   "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"

10. guide, guide onverb

    use as a guide

    "They had the lights to guide on"

11. guide, run, draw, passverb

    pass over, across, or through

    "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. guidenoun

   Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.

2. guidenoun

   A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.

3. guidenoun

   A sign that guides people; guidepost.

4. guidenoun

   Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.

5. guidenoun

   A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.

6. guidenoun

   A spirit believed to speak through a medium.

7. guidenoun

   A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

8. guideverb

   to serve as a guide for someone or something.

9. guideverb

   to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.

10. guideverb

    to exert control or influence over someone or something.

11. guideverb

    to supervise the education or training of someone.

12. guideverb

    to act as a guide.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Guidenoun

   Etymology: guide, French, from the verb.

   1. One who directs another in his way.

   Judas was guide to them that took Jesus. Acts i. 16.

   Thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, to be a guide of the unknown journey. Wisd. xviii. 3.

   Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance
   So far to make us wish for ignorance?
   And rather in the dark to grope our way,
   Than led by a false guide to err by day? John Denham.

   2. One who directs another in his conduct.

   While yet but young his father dy’d,
   And left him to an happy guide. Edmund Waller.

   3. Director; regulator.

   Who the guide of nature, but only the God of nature? In him we live, move and are. Those things which nature is said to do, are by divine art performed, using nature as an instrument: nor is there any such art or knowledge divine in nature herself working, but in the guide of nature’s work. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 3.

   Some truths are not by reason to be tried,
   But we have sure experience for our guide. John Dryden, Fables.

2. To GUIDEverb

   Etymology: guider, French.

   1. To direct in a way.

   When the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. Jo. xvi. 13.

   The new light served to guide them to their neighbours coffers. Decay of Piety.

   Whosoever has a faithful friend to guide him in the dark passages of life, may carry his eyes in another man’s head, and yet see never the worse. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. To govern by counsel; to instruct.

   For thy name’s sake lead me and guide me. Ps. xxxi. 3.

   3. To regulate; to superintend.

   Women neglect that which St. Paul assigns them as their proper business, the guiding of the house. Decay of Piety.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Guidenoun

   the leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder

2. Guideverb

   to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler

3. Guideverb

   to regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train

4. Guideverb

   a person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook

5. Guideverb

   one who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator

6. Guideverb

   any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator

7. Guideverb

   a blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets

8. Guideverb

   a grooved director for a probe or knife

9. Guideverb

   a strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting

10. Guideverb

    a noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics

11. Etymology: [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Cf. Wit, Guy a rope, Gye.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Guide

   Guide is a 1965 Hindi film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who also contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film industry. The film was a box office hit upon release. The movie proved memorable for its award-winning performances by the lead actors and memorable music by S. D. Burman. Time Magazine listed it at Number Five on its list of Best Bollywood Classics. A 120-minute U.S. version was written by Pearl S. Buck, and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski, The film was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, 42 years after its release.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Guide

   gīd, v.t. to lead or direct: to regulate: to influence.—n. he who, or that which, guides: one who directs another in his course of life: a soldier or other person employed to obtain information for an army: a guide-book: anything calculated to maintain in a certain direction or position.—adj. Guid′able.—ns. Guid′age, guidance; Guid′ance, direction: government; Guide′-book, a book of information for tourists.—adj. Guide′less, having no guide.—ns. Guide′post, a post erected at a roadside to guide the traveller; Guid′er, one who guides, a director; Guid′on, a forked guide-flag carried by a cavalry company or mounted battery, also the officer bearing it. [O. Fr. guider; prob. from a Teut. root, as in A.S. witan, to know, wís, wise, Ger. weisen, to show, conn. with wit, wise.]

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1. Guide

   Guide is a software company focused on turning online news, social streams and blogs into video for on-the-go consumption. Its multiplatform app, Guide uses the latest generation avatar and text-to-speech technology to turn traditional web content into an audio-visual stream for curation and consumption on-the-go.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. guide

   See FLOOR-GUIDE.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. guide

   To offer or discuss to learn.

   Her line manager did offer very helpful possibilities or ways to achieve together.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

2. ---

   guide

   To provide guidance.

   The teachers guide and teach their pupils in school.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 21, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Direct
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   • Handbook
   • Leader
   • Model

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guide' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2165

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guide' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3556

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guide' in Nouns Frequency: #822

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'guide' in Verbs Frequency: #674

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of guide in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of guide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of guide in a Sentence

1. Unknown:

   Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.

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3. Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller:

   Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise founders of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

4. Maru Biadglegn:

   There are also 69 local guide associations, 70 cooking associations, also 10 car rental associations, these are our partners in order to conserve the natural resources and in order to satisfy and get information for tourists.

5. Adrian Ballinger:

   We saw close to 100 other climbers also moving into camp getting ready to summit on May 23, to me as a guide, there's no way I would send my team up with 100 other climbers into the' death zone' above 26,000 feet.

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