Guide
Guide , transitive verb
[Old English guiden, gyden, French guiaer, Italian guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; compare Gothic ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icelandic viti signal, Anglo-Saxon witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show the way. Compare Wit, Guy a rope, Gye.]
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.
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.
The meek will he guide in judgment.
Guide , noun
[Old English giae, French guide, Italian guida. See Guide, transitive verb]
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 life; a director; a regulator.
He will be our guide, even unto death.
3.
(Water Wheels) 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)
(Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
(b)
(Water Wheels) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(c)
(Water Wheels) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
4.
(Military) 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
Collocations (6)
Guide bar (Machinery) , 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 pile (Engineering) , a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to.
Guide pulley (Machinery) , 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.