Guide

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guide \Guide\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Guided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Guiding}.] [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare; prob.
     of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed
     to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob.
     meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Cf.
     {Wit}, {Guy} a rope, {Gye.}]


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     1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or
        path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
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              I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's
              court.                                --Shak.
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     2. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to
        superintend the training or education of; to instruct and
        influence intellectually or morally; to train.
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              He will guide his affairs with discretion. --Ps.
                                                    cxii. 5.
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              The meek will he guide in judgment.   --Ps. xxv. 9.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guide \Guide\, n. [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See {Guide},
     v. t.]
     1. 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.
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     2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or
        course of life; a director; a regulator.
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              He will be our guide, even unto death. --Ps. xlviii.
                                                    14.
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     3. 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; as:
        (a) (Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the
            flow of water to the wheel buckets.
        (b) (Surgery) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
        (c) (Printing) A strip or device to direct the
            compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
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     4. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the
        directing 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. --Farrow.
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     {Guide bar} (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the
        crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston
        rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute
        for the parallel motion; -- called also {guide}, and
        {slide bar}.
  
     {Guide block} (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the
        crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar.
  
     {Guide meridian}. (Surveying) See under {Meridian}.
  
     {Guide pile} (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a
        point to work to.
  
     {Guide pulley} (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing
        the line of motion of belt; an idler. --Knight.
  
     {Guide rail} (Railroads), an additional rail, between the
        others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the
        locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  guide
       n 1: someone employed to conduct others [syn: {usher}]
       2: someone who shows the way by leading or advising
       3: something that offers basic information or instruction [syn:
           {guidebook}]
       4: a model or standard for making comparisons [syn: {template},
           {templet}]
       5: someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
          [syn: {scout}, {pathfinder}]
       v 1: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
            [syn: {steer}, {maneuver}, {manoeuver}, {manoeuvre}, {direct},
             {point}, {head}, {channelize}, {channelise}]
       2: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can
          you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to
          the palace" [syn: {lead}, {take}, {direct}, {conduct}]
       3: be a guiding force, as with directions or advice; "The
          teacher steered the gifted students towards the more
          challenging courses" [syn: {steer}]
       4: use as a guide; "They had the lights to guide on" [syn: {guide
          on}]
       5: guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her
          body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine";
          "He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: {run}, {draw},
           {pass}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  412 Moby Thesaurus words for "guide":
     Baedeker, Dutch uncle, Gyropilot, Masan, Polonius, abecedarian,
     accompany, admonisher, advise, adviser, advisor, advocate,
     air hole, allegorist, ancestor, ancestral spirits, angel,
     annotator, announcer, antecedent, apparition, appearance, armhole,
     arrow, astral, astral spirit, attend, attendant godling,
     automatic pilot, avant-garde, backseat driver, banshee,
     be the bellwether, beacon, bell cow, bellwether, blaze,
     blaze the trail, blowhole, boatheader, boatsteerer,
     break the trail, brief, broaden the mind, buccinator, bullet-hole,
     bunghole, bushwhacker, buttinsky, call the shots, catechize,
     certified teacher, chaperon, chart a course, chute, cicerone,
     civilize, clarifier, coach, commentator, compass needle,
     compendium, cond, conduct, conductor, confer, confidant, conn,
     consult with, consultant, contrive, control, convoy, counsel,
     counselor, courier, cowherd, coxswain, cringle, criterion, critic,
     cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, daemon, deadeye, dean,
     decide, decoder, definer, demon, demonstrate, demonstrator,
     demythologizer, departed spirit, determine, diaskeuast, direct,
     direction, direction post, director, disembodied spirit, dispose,
     docent, doctor, dominie, don, doyen, dragoman, drive, drover,
     duppy, dybbuk, eaves trough, edify, editor, educate, educationist,
     educator, eidolon, emendator, emender, enchiridion, engineer,
     enlighten, escort, esquire, euhemerist, example, exegesist,
     exegete, exegetist, exemplar, expert, explainer, explicator,
     explorer, exponent, expositor, expounder, eye, eyelet,
     fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fellow, finger post,
     fist, forebear, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, form, front runner,
     frontiersman, fugleman, gasket, genius, genius domus, genius loci,
     get ahead of, get before, ghost, give instruction, give lessons in,
     go before, go-between, goatherd, good angel, good genius, govern,
     grateful dead, grommet, ground, groundbreaker, guard, guardian,
     guardian angel, guardian spirit, guideboard, guidebook, guidepost,
     guider, guiding light, guru, gutter, hand, handbook, handle, hant,
     harbinger, haunt, have the conn, have the start, head,
     head the line, helm, helmsman, herald, herd, herdsman, hermeneut,
     hold the reins, hour hand, household gods, ideal, idolum, illumine,
     immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, index,
     index finger, influence, inform, innovator, inspiration, instruct,
     instructor, interpreter, introduce, invisible helper, keyhole,
     kibitz, kibitzer, knothole, landmark, lap, lares and penates,
     lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini,
     lares praestites, lares viales, larva, lead, lead runner,
     lead the dance, lead the way, leader, lemures, lexicographer,
     light, light the way, lodestar, loop, loophole, lubber line,
     maestro, manage, manes, maneuver, manhole, manual, marker, marshal,
     master, materialization, meddle, meddler, melamed, mentor, mercury,
     messenger, metaphrast, milepost, ministering angel, minute hand,
     model, monitor, mousehole, mullah, navigate, navigator, needle,
     nestor, numen, oneirocritic, oni, open the eyes, operate, order,
     orienter, outstrip, oversee, pace, pandit, paraphrast, pathfinder,
     pedagogist, pedagogue, peephole, penates, penstock, pentrough,
     phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pigeonhole, pilot, pinhole, pioneer,
     placket, placket hole, point, pointer, poltergeist, porthole,
     precede, precedent, preceptist, preceptor, precursor, predecessor,
     prescribe, presence, professor, propose, punch-hole, pundit, rabbi,
     recommend, reeducate, regulate, revenant, river pilot, route, rule,
     run, scholiast, school, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher,
     scout, see, set right, set the pace, shade, shadow, shape,
     shape a course, sharpen the wits, shepherd, shoot, show, show how,
     show the way, shrouded spirit, sign, signal, signboard, signpost,
     spearhead, special providence, specter, spectral ghost, spiracle,
     spirit, spook, sprite, squire, stand first, standard, starets,
     steer, steerer, steersman, stormy petrel, submit, suggest,
     superintend, supervise, sway, take out, take the helm,
     take the lead, tap, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments,
     teacher, textual critic, theophany, totem, tour director,
     tour guide, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train, translator, trough,
     tutelar god, tutelary, tutor, unsubstantiality, usher, usher in,
     vade mecum, vanguard, vaunt-courier, vent, venthole, vision,
     voortrekker, wait on, walking dead man, wandering soul,
     wear the pants, wraith, zombie
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GUIDE
       Graphical User Interface Design Editor (Sun)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GUIDE
       
          {Graphical User Interface} Development Environment from {Sun}.
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Guide
       
          A {hypertext} system from the University of Kent (GB) and
          {OWL} for displaying on-line documentation.