A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.
Guide or The Guide may also refer to:
Occupations Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation Museum docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place 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 User guide, 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 The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author Guide (film), a Hindi film based on the novel The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film The Guide (Wommat), a 1994 album by Youssou N'Dour Guide (magazine), a Philippine religious bimonthly magazine published by the Sonshine Media Network International The Guide, renamed WOW247, an entertainment supplement of The News (Portsmouth) "The Guide", a 2016 song by Kid Cudi from Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' Seven Guide, a defunct Australian television channel Nine Guide, a defunct Australian television channel Ten Guide, a defunct Australian television channel
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 , a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1941 , a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1954
Technology In mechanical design, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example: Guide rail 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
Guidance (disambiguation) Indian Guides (disambiguation) Girl Guides (disambiguation) Corps of Guides (disambiguation) Pioneer (disambiguation) Mentor (disambiguation)