Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 guidance 2 Girl Guiding vb. (present participle of guide English)
WordNet
adj. exerting control or influence; "a guiding principle"
showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive]
Wikipedia
Guiding may refer to:
- Girl Guides, Girl Scouts
- Guiding County, a county in Guizhou Province, China
Usage examples of "guiding".
Then someone was helping her, telling her in some strange accent to bring him in here, hands guiding her shoulders, leading her into a tent with a soft glow of lamplight.
Nabby, appraising the politicians she encountered in New York, including Governor George Clinton, surmised there were few for whom personal aggrandizement was not the guiding motivation.
Consequently someone is needed to receive the baptized from the sacred font as though for the purpose of instructing and guiding them.
As she left me she gave me such a kind embrace that I could bear it no longer, and guiding her hand I skewed her the power she exercised over me.
He had a guiding principle: nature seemed to like equations stated in covariant differential forms.
Lourdusamy -- then a young, minor functionary in the Vatican diplomatic machine -- with guiding the anguished and pain-ridden ex-Hyperion pilgrim, Father Lenar Hoyt, to finding the secret that tamed the cruciform to an instrument of resurrection.
His guiding principle was to let nothing deter him from his main purpose of eliminating internal rivals.
Lilith wobbled as she tried to comply and finally merely offered no resistance as he guided her with his hands, lifting her up onto her knees and guiding his engorged member into the mouth of her passage.
Senor, that you are the true Don Quixote of La Mancha, the polestar and guiding light of knight errantry, notwithstanding and despite one who has wanted to usurp your name and annihilate your deeds, as the author of this book, which I give to you now, has done.
I listened intently, but the naked feet of the green men sent back no guiding echoes, though presently I thought I detected the clank of side arms in the far distance of the middle corridor.
In fact she has come so close to dying so often that her mind is no longer capable of guiding her if she should leave Joy Hall.
Ashe hurried them along, guiding Hocking with a palm in his back, pushing him to keep pace.
Snaper and Hooley were guiding The Shadow to their hangout without the slightest knowledge that a tiny hole in their gas tank was lighting the way.
There were two young men with him, and the three of them went directly to the graves with Juba guiding them.
That seemed safest, even though he and the human woman, Kayan, had been invited to travel through the desert with the tribe in repayment for their help in psionically guiding the rescue.