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• guide — vb Guide, lead, steer, pilot, engineer are comparable when meaning to direct a person or thing in his or its course or to show the way which he or it should follow. Guide usually implies assistance either by means of a person with intimate… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• guide´less — guide «gyd», verb, guid|ed, guid|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to show the way; lead; direct; conduct: »The Indian scout guided the explorers through the mountain pass. The President skillfully guided the country t …   Useful english dictionary

• Guide — A guide is a person who leads people through unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a place of interest.EtymologyThe word guide was incorporated into (Middle) English via Old French guider which meant to guide,… …   Wikipedia

• guide — {{11}}guide (n.) mid 14c., one who shows the way, from O.Fr. guide, 14c. (alteration of earlier guie), verbal noun from guider (see GUIDE (Cf. guide) (v.)). In book titles from 1610s; meaning book of information on local sites is from 1759. In… …   Etymology dictionary

• guide — I. noun Etymology: Middle English gide, guide, from Anglo French, from Old Occitan guida, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wītan to look after, witan to know more at wit Date: 14th century 1. a. one that leads or directs another s way b. a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Lead — (l[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Led} (l[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leading}.] [OE. leden, AS. l[=ae]dan (akin to OS. l[=e]dian, D. leiden, G. leiten, Icel. le[imac][eth]a, Sw. leda, Dan. lede), properly a causative fr. AS. li[eth]an to go; akin to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lead — lead1 [lēd] vt. led, leading [ME leden < OE lædan, caus. of lithan, to travel, go, akin to Ger leiten: for IE base see LOAD] 1. a) to show the way to, or direct the course of, by going before or along with; conduct; guide b) to show (the way)… …   English World dictionary

• Lead poisoning — Classification and external resources An X ray demonstrating the characteristic finding of lead poisoning, dense metaphyseal lines. ICD 10 T …   Wikipedia

• lead — [n1] first place, supremacy advance, advantage, ahead, bulge, cutting edge*, direction, edge, example, facade, front rank, guidance, head, heavy, leadership, margin, model, over, pilot, point, precedence, primacy, principal, priority, protagonist …   New thesaurus

• guide — [n1] something that or someone who leads adviser, attendant, captain, chaperon, cicerone, conductor, controller, convoy, counselor, criterion, design, director, docent, escort, example, exemplar, exhibitor, genie, genius, guiding spirit, guru,… …   New thesaurus

• Lead(II) nitrate — Lead(II) nitrate …   Wikipedia