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Guiding   /gˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
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



... anxiously as he made the announcement. He was half afraid of a lingering memory that might jeopardize his plans, or, at least make their fulfilment more difficult. But he need have had no fear. The child remembered, but only with delight. And again the man recognized the guiding hand of ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... Maiwa guiding us. After going for a half-hour over gradually rising ground, we found ourselves on the further edge of a great bush-clad depression something like the bottom of a lake. This depression, through which we had been travelling, was covered with bush to a very great extent, indeed almost altogether ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard

... Christian Church is to go forward successfully again in the power and spirit of that Master whom it constantly invokes as "the way, the truth, and the life," it must make that way and life its guiding truth. It must aim constantly at greater simplicity in its teaching, and a broader, more fraternal co-operation in Christian work. Its motto should be the motto of the early Church, "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity." ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... came an ominous jar on the side of the repaired ski and Norman instantly threw the planes upward. It was a chance for, if the car settled again, the new runner would probably give away. In its gathering momentum, the airship drifted snowward again while both boys gulped. Then as if guiding itself, it sprang upward ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler

... not to serve Him, these free intelligent beings becoming thus true second causes. More than this, provision for almost innumerable second causes seems to have been made even among other departments of nature, without however interfering with the direct action of the word of the Infinite One in guiding ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price


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