Word Meanings - GUIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A guide; a director. Shak.

Related words: (words related to GUIDER)

• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• GUIDE
  cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and 1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• GUIDEPOST
  A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• GUIDER
  A guide; a director. Shak.
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
• GUIDELESS
  Without a guide. Dryden.
• GUIDERESS
  A female guide. Chaucer.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• MISGUIDE
  To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• LINGUIDENTAL
  Linguadental.