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Guide   /gaɪd/   Listen
Guide

noun
1.
Someone employed to conduct others.  Synonym: usher.
2.
Someone who shows the way by leading or advising.
3.
Something that offers basic information or instruction.  Synonym: guidebook.
4.
A model or standard for making comparisons.  Synonyms: template, templet.
5.
Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.  Synonyms: pathfinder, scout.
6.
A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something.
verb
(past & past part. guided; pres. part. guiding)
1.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.  Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer.
2.
Take somebody somewhere.  Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take.  "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"
3.
Be a guiding or motivating force or drive.  Synonym: steer.
4.
Use as a guide.  Synonym: guide on.
5.
Pass over, across, or through.  Synonyms: draw, pass, run.  "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine" , "He drew her hair through his fingers"



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"Guide" Quotes from Famous Books



... was this staff, brother," answered the other, smiling, "with my poor arm to guide it. 'Twas an ill-requital for your hospitality, and ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... promise were the new factor which changed the equation for which Kaid would presently ask the satisfaction. David's life had suddenly come upon problems for which his whole past was no preparation. Conscience, which had been his guide in every situation, was now disarmed, disabled, and routed. It ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... and phrases. If there is possibility of misunderstanding without a comma, put one in. If the words tell their story beyond possibility of misunderstanding without a comma, there is no reason for its use. This rule will serve as a fairly dependable guide in the absence of any well recognized rule for a particular case, or where doubt exists as to the application of ...
— Punctuation - A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and - their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically • Frederick W. Hamilton
... that was real life. I never tired of the guide's stories; there was some interest in the intelligence that a deer had been down to eat the lily-pads at the foot of the lake the night before; that a bear's track was seen on the trail we crossed that day; even Mandeville's fish-stories had a certain air of probability; and how to roast ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... and Jed Sanborn reached camp a surprise awaited them. Seated at a small fire in front of Birch Tree Inn was an elderly man dressed in the outfit of a mountain guide. ...
— Guns And Snowshoes • Captain Ralph Bonehill


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