Guide (disambiguation)

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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