Guide (disambiguation)
A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.
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Guide or The Guide may also refer to:
Occupations
- Guide, a person with specialized knowledge of an area who leads or conducts others
- Museum docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place
- Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation
- Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted
- Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles
- Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines
Reference works
- Compendium, a work intended to summarize human knowledge in a particular field
- Encyclopedia, a work intended to summarize the whole of human knowledge
- Field guide, a reference for quickly identifying organisms or objects
- Guide book, a book that summarize attractions for tourists
- Guide to information sources, a work summarizing the important sources in a particular field
- Knowledge management database
- Owners manual, a book instructing a person how to use a product
- Price guide, a reference work containing prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
- Study guide, a document intended to foster comprehension of literature, research topics, history, or other subjects
Media with the title
- Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10- to 14-year-olds
- Guide (magazine), a Philippine religious bimonthly
- The Guide, renamed WOW247, an entertainment supplement of The News (Portsmouth)
- The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
- Guide (film) was also the name of a Hindi film based on the above novel
- The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film
Places
- Guide, Henan, a former name of Shangqiu in Henan, China
- Guide County in Qinghai, China
- Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
- Guide, Mirandela, a village in Portugal
- Guide River, New Zealand
- The Guides, two islands off South Georgia
- Washington State Route 539, officially named the Guide Meridian Road, commonly known as "The Guide"
Ships
- Guide, a New Zealand Company teak-built Calcutta pilot brig wrecked in 1846
- Guide (ship), a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855
- USC&GS Guide (1918), an American survey ship in service from 1923 to 1941
- USC&GS Guide (1929), an American survey ship in service from 1941 to 1942
- USS Guide (AMc-83), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1941
- USS Guide (AM-447), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1954
Technology
- In mechanical usage, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example:
- The “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
- A loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt
- Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
- Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system
- Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
- Guide (software company), a software company that designs an app for changing text into streaming audio and video
- GUIDE International, a defunct IBM computer user group
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with guide
- All pages with titles containing guide
- Guidance (disambiguation)
- Indian Guides (disambiguation)
- Girl Guides (disambiguation)
- Corps of Guides (disambiguation)
- Pioneer (disambiguation)
- Mentor (disambiguation)
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