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Meaning of 'guide' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Guide [ n.]
- The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
2 . Guide [ v. t.]
- To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
- To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
- 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.
- One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
- 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
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife.
- A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
- 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.

Meaning of 'guide' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . guide [ v]
Meaning (1):
- take somebody somewhere
Example in sentence:
  • can you take me to the main entrance?;
  • He conducted us to the palace;
  • We lead him to our chief
Meaning (2):
- pass over, across, or through
Example in sentence:
  • He drew her hair through his fingers;
  • He ran his eyes over her body;
  • She ran her fingers along the carved figurine
Meaning (3):
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
Example in sentence:
  • The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses
Meaning (4):
- use as a guide
Example in sentence:
  • They had the lights to guide on

Nearby Words:

guiac guiacol guiacum guib guicowar guid guidable guidage guidance guideboard

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