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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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“Service Ready” is both a memoir and a practical guide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

These structures act as pathways that guide electrical charges through the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Navy divers will then secure the capsule and guide it to the Murtha’s deck.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Can the past winners guide you in the right direction?

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“We are not far now from where the stones lie. Why, they are simply up those cliffs, and through the caverns. But if I am to guide you there, I cannot do so in chains.”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny




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