Look up guide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.

Contents

• Occupations
• Reference works
• Media with the title
• Places
• Ships
• Technology
• See also

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
• 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 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

• 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)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Guide.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.