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单词 guide
释义

guide

See also: guidé, Guide, guìdé, and Guìdé

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gīd, IPA(key): /ɡaɪd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.

Noun

guide (plural guides)

  1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
    The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms xlviii:14:
      He will be our guide, even unto death.
  2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
  3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
  4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
  5. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
    1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
    2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
    3. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
  6. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 75:
      The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.
  7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Derived terms
  • career guide
  • Girl Guide
  • guidance
  • guide book
  • guidebook
  • Guide Bridge
  • guide dog
  • guideline
  • guide on the side
  • guidepost
  • hornguide, horn guide
  • mountain guide
  • style guide
  • tour guide
  • travel guide
  • user guide
  • users' guide
  • user's guide
Descendants
  • → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
  • → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
  • → Norwegian: guide
  • → Swedish: guide
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Etymology 2

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Verb

guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)

  1. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
    • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act II, scene i]:
      And that you'd guide me to your Soueraignes Court,
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Citadel:
      Kolyat: I brought a prayer book, Commander. Would you care to join me?
      Kolyat: Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention.
      Shepard: Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve.
      Shepard: Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me.
  2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
  3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 112:5:
      A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.
  4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
  5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.
Conjugation
Conjugation of guide
infinitive(to) guide
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular guide guided
2nd-person singular guide, guidest† guided, guidedst†
3rd-person singular guides, guideth† guided
plural guide
subjunctive guide guided
imperative guide —
participles guiding guided

†Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms
  • guidee
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References

  • guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “guide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  • “guide”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

  • digue, iudge

Chinese

Etymology

From English guide.

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai1
  • Cantonese
    • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
      • Jyutping: gaai1
      • Yale: gāai
      • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai1
      • Guangdong Romanization: gai1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /kaːi̯⁵⁵/

Verb

guide

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to guide
    guide住佢做嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai1 zyu6 keoi5 zou6 je5 [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

See also

  • guideline

French

Etymology

From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *wītan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡid/
  • audio(file)
  • Homophone: guides
  • Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

  1. guide person
  2. guidebook, or set itinerary

Derived terms

  • chien guide d'aveugle
  • guide de conversation
  • mener la vie à grandes guides
  • guider

Descendants

  • → Danish: guide
  • → Romanian: ghid
  • → Russian: гид (gid)

References

  • "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

Further reading

  • “guide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • digue

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡwi.de/
  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Hyphenation: guì‧de

Noun

guide f

  1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)

  1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
  2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

  • gaid

Verb

guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

  1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

  • gaide

References

  • “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)

  1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
  2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

  • gaid

Verb

guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guide/guid)

  1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

  • gaide, guida

References

  • “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

guide m or f

  1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

  • French: guide
    • → Danish: guide
    • → Romanian: ghid
    • → Russian: гид (gid)
  • Norman: dgide (Jersey)
  • → Middle English: giden, gide
    • Scots: guide
    • English: guide
      • → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
      • → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
      • → Norwegian: guide
      • → Swedish: guide

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷedyā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-yeh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡuðʲe]

Noun

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

  1. verbal noun of guidid
  2. prayer
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421
      In guide ro·ngád-sa, ní ar ulc fri doíni.
      The prayer that I have prayed, it is not for evil onto humanity.

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
SingularDualPlural
NominativeguideLguidiLguidi
VocativeguideLguidiLguidi
AccusativeguidiNguidiLguidi
GenitiveguideguideLguideN
DativeguidiLguidibguidib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • aicde
  • airnigde
  • comguide
  • dígde
  • foigde

Descendants

  • Irish: guí
  • Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: guidhe

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
guideguide
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		nguide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

guide c

  1. guide (person who guides)
    Synonym: vägledare
  2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)
    Synonym: assistent

Declension

Declension of guide 
SingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativeguideguidenguiderguiderna
Genitiveguidesguidensguidersguidernas
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