guide

plural guides

1. 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.

   The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

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   He will be our guide, even unto death.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms xlviii:14

   Some tourists aggravate their position by hiring a guide. Every city of any historic importance breeds a class of mortals that are born guides; they have come to belong to the "staffage" of picturesque surroundings; and in this respect Prague is happily yet unspoilt.

   1923, Bernard Granville Baker, From a Terrace in Prague

   Synonyms: guider, xenagogue

2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.

   Synonyms: legend

6. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
   1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
   2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
   3. datedmediaA strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
7. human sciencesA spirit believed to speak through a medium.

   The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 75

8. governmentA member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

present singular third person guides · participle present guiding · participle past guided · past guided · first person past singular guided · archaic present second person singular guidest · past second person singular guided · archaic past second person singular guidedst · present singular third person guides · archaic present singular third person guideth · past singular third person guided · past plural guided · past subjunctive guided · participle present guiding · participle past guided

1. To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.

   And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,

   c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

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   Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me? Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me.

   2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel

2. To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. To exert control or influence over someone or something.

   A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 112:5

4. To supervise the education or training of someone.
5. intransitiveTo act as a guide.

1. A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7025).

1. A county of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.

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   She said she had chosen to speak out because she wanted to explain to the public why she left Guide county in Qinghai, where she and her husband Xie Chengde ran a successful honey farm that once featured on state television. The authorities in Guide said they are now investigating the case following her accusations.

   2021 February 8, Mandy Zuo, “Award-winning Chinese reporter’s account of years of domestic violence causes uproar on social media”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2021, China

1. historicalSynonym of Shangqiu.

   Synonyms: Shangqiu