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Guiding

adjective

1.

Exerting control or influence.

2.

Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on. Synonyms: directing, directional, directive. "The directional role of science on industrial progress"

Guide

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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"Guiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... brought. I could see her delicately manicured fingers, the blue veins at the back of her hands, as she wrote, slowly and apparently without hesitation. Both Louis and myself watched the writing of that note as though Fate itself were guiding ...

— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... with it, Mrs. Worley. Now, she knew better. For Dr. Dortch had come to see me, and was guiding me in my game of euchre in which I was not even as wise as my partner, Mr. Enders, when her note came. Instantly we put down our cards, while Miriam begged him to write and tell her the true story. He wrote and we all read it. Not only that, but Miriam added ...

— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... called by the national voice in succession to the arduous office of guiding a free people, had no difficulties to encounter. The amicable effort of settling our difficulties with France, begun by Washington and pursued by his successor in virtue as in station, proving abortive, America took measures of self-defence. No sooner was the public mind roused ...

— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... and Tom watched, Uncle Richard carefully held the short arm of the syphon, guiding it till the sediment at the bottom of the pan was nearly reached, when he quickly withdrew it, and the basin was then placed beside ...

— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn

... sure, there was the exquisite refinement and charm of the creature herself to make a presumption in favor of her immediate kindred, but—he must wait to know more: perhaps through Mrs. Meyrick he might gather some guiding hints from Mirah's own lips. Her voice, her accent, her looks—all the sweet purity that clothed her as with a consecrating garment made him shrink the more from giving her, either ideally or practically, an association with what was hateful or contaminating. But these fine words with which we ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

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