guide

1. n. The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Source: opted

2. v. t. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. Source: opted

3. v. t. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train. Source: opted

4. v. t. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator. Source: opted

6. v. t. 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 Source: opted

7. v. t. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets. Source: opted

8. v. t. A grooved director for a probe or knife. Source: opted

9. v. t. A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. Source: opted

10. v. t. 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. Source: opted

11. n. someone employed to conduct others Source: wordnet

12. n. someone who shows the way by leading or advising Source: wordnet

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