guide Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone employed to conduct others
    usher.
  2. noun someone who shows the way by leading or advising
  3. noun something that offers basic information or instruction
    guidebook.
  4. noun a model or standard for making comparisons
    templet; template.
  5. noun someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
    scout; pathfinder.
  6. noun a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
  7. verb direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
    maneuver; head; point; direct; channelise; manoeuvre; channelize; manoeuver; steer.
  8. verb take somebody somewhere
    conduct; take; lead; direct.
    • We lead him to our chief
    • can you take me to the main entrance?
    • He conducted us to the palace
  9. verb be a guiding or motivating force or drive
    steer.
    • The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses
  10. verb use as a guide
    guide on.
    • They had the lights to guide on
  11. verb pass over, across, or through
    draw; run; pass.
    • He ran his eyes over her body
    • She ran her fingers along the carved figurine
    • He drew her hair through his fingers

WordNet

Guide transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Guided; present participle & verbal noun Guiding
Definitions
  1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
    I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.
  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.
    He will guide his affairs with discretion. Ps. cxii. 5.
    The meek will he guide in judgment. Ps. xxv. 9.
Guide noun
Etymology
OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See Guide, v. t.
Definitions
  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.
  2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
    He will be our guide, even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14.
  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.
  4. (Mil.) 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. Farrow.

Webster 1913