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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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The Portuguese coach guided Wolves away from the relegation zone last season before being sacked in November after a 10-game winless start to the campaign.

From Barron's

PARIS—For years, guides who escorted Chinese tourists through the Louvre were using the same ticket for multiple people in their groups, French authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he mixed brutal hitting with plenty of finesse too, guiding 15 runs down to third with some deft late cuts.

From BBC

Over several months, the team guided stem cells to form complex spinal cord tissue containing neurons and astrocytes.

From Science Daily

The next time junior engineers face a similar crash, the system may be able to guide them through elements of the methodology you used.

From The Wall Street Journal