guide

guide is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
2. transitive verb. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
3. transitive verb. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
6. transitive verb. 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
7. transitive verb. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
8. transitive verb. A grooved director for a probe or knife.
9. transitive verb. A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
10. transitive verb. 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.
11. noun. a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
12. noun. a model or standard for making comparisons

    Synonyms: template, templet

13. noun. something that offers basic information or instruction

    Synonyms: guidebook

14. noun. someone who shows the way by leading or advising
15. noun. someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

    Synonyms: pathfinder, scout

16. noun. someone employed to conduct others

    Synonyms: usher

17. verb. pass over, across, or through

    "He ran his eyes over her body"

    "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"

    Synonyms: draw, pass, run

18. verb. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

    Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer

19. verb. take somebody somewhere

    "We lead him to our chief"

    "can you take me to the main entrance?"

    Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take

20. verb. use as a guide

    "They had the lights to guide on"

21. verb. be a guiding or motivating force or drive

    "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"

    Synonyms: steer

Synonyms

template, templet, guidebook, pathfinder, scout, usher, draw, pass, run, channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer, conduct, lead, take

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in guide:

digue

Common word forms

guided, guider, guides, guiding, guideless

Words from these letters

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