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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

... possibility that it may have been so. You know your guardian better than I do, naturally. Our knowledge of a man's character is often a far better guide ...

— The Case of the Registered Letter • Augusta Groner

... rational conviction, and if it is laid on no shifting sands of contradictory character in the educator, we may safely trust to its enduring support. There must be no compromise here. The doctrines that the good are happy, that honesty is the best policy, etc., are of no avail. They will not do as a guide for life, and the sooner American mothers and teachers learn this, the better ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... comprehensive precept known as the golden rule, which, being the outgrowth of the discovered necessities of association, without which society could not exist, it necessarily constituted man's sole rule and guide long before priest or temple; and founded in the eternal principles of right, truth and justice must remain as man's sole rule and guide when priest and church are numbered among the things that were. Spirit of progress! speed the day when ...

— Astral Worship • J. H. Hill

... if they have been well brought up, has passed away. Nevertheless, they are in the meanwhile bound to live and preserve themselves as far as they can by the unaided impulses of desire. Nature has given them no other guide, and has denied them the present power of living according to sound reason; so that they are no more bound to live by the dictates of an enlightened mind than a cat is bound to live by the laws of the nature of ...

— The Philosophy of Spinoza • Baruch de Spinoza

... both these points by the tried friendship and sound principles of the Duke of Bedford, his brother; to whom he gave in charge both his kingdom and his boy. He then desired the Earl of Warwick to undertake the office of preceptor and guide to the young prince in learning and in arms. Henry next left a charge for his brother Humfrey to be careful that no division of affection and interests should take place between them; he conjured them also not to ...

— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler

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