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guide

[gahyd] / gaɪd /




Usage

What are other ways to say guide? The verb guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

Example Sentences

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Folks for teach me, understand me, guide me.”

From Literature

Day and night, it guided a long, narrow piece of paper moving faithfully underneath a quivering black pen.

From Literature

If the stock market’s reaction to Kevin Warsh is any guide, it’s going to be a bumpy ride for investors over the next few months.

From MarketWatch

What follows is a guide to where we stayed, ate and wandered — and why Miami, even when it rains, is a place that knows how to celebrate.

From Salon

"Materials intended primarily for local communities" have also been produced in two languages, including a guide for volunteers, it told AFP.

From Barron's