Definition of Guide

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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

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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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