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Definition of Guide
Guide

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.

To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.

A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.

One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.

Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator

A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.

A grooved director for a probe or knife.

A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.

A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.

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Guide Quotations

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
Steve Brown

My family was my guide to my reality.
Haywood Nelson

Guide Translations

guide in Afrikaans is lei, bestuur, gids, rig
guide in Dutch is besturen, richten, dirigeren, mennen
guide in Finnish is opastaa, suunnata
guide in French is conduire, guider, guident, diriger, guidez, mener
guide in Italian is introduzione, cicerone, regolare
guide in Latin is dux ducis
guide in Portuguese is guia
guide in Spanish is impuestos, mandar, guia, instruir


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