guide
Meanings
Noun
- someone employed to conduct others
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
- A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Verb
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- "They had the lights to guide on"
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To act as a guide.
Origin / Etymology
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
Synonyms
channelise, channelize, conduct, direct, draw, guide on, guidebook, guider, head, interpreter, lead, legend, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, pass, pathfinder, point, run, scout, steer, take, template, templet, usher, xenagogue
Scrabble Score: 7
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