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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

... a worthy man, a guide attached to the Chateau d'If, sells pens made of fish-bone by the Abbe ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... without armed force? But note how sinuously conditions have changed. The capitalist class, far shrewder than the feudalistic rulers, dispenses with personally equipped armed force. It becomes superfluous. All that is necessary to do is to make the laws, and so guide things that the officials who enforce the laws are responsive to the interests of the propertied classes. Back of the laws are police forces and sheriffs and militia all kept at the expense of city, county and State—at public expense. Clearly, then, having control of the laws ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... is refreshing and delightful to see one fair page, in the dark volume of injustice and crime, which American annals, on this subject present. While this page reflects upon the past an accumulated odium, it furnishes lessons for the guide and edification of the future. Let me invite the philanthropist ...

— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

... abbot was ever the same. The monks were in short in every district a point of refuge for all who needed succour, counsel, and protection; a body of individuals having no cares of their own, with wisdom to guide the inexperienced, with wealth to relieve the suffering, and often with power to ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... degree—ahem!—mercantile, and as citizens of Troy esteem it our duty to acquaint ourselves (theoretically) with the products of other lands. To this end I have had all my daughters carefully grounded in the 'Child's Guide to Knowledge.' Jane, ...

— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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