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guide

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?d/
  • Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (to show the way, lead), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (to see, know; go, depart), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see, know). Cognate with Old English w?tan (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.
    The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.
    • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 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.
  7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (to show the way, lead), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (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.
  2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
  3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
  4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
  5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.
Derived terms
  • guidee
Translations

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

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 *w?tan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?id/
  • Homophone: guides
  • Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

  1. guide person
  2. guidebook, or set itinerary.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

  • guider

Descendants

  • ? Danish: guide
  • ? Romanian: ghid
  • ? Russian: ??? (gid)

References

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

Further reading

  • “guide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • digue

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ide

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 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: ??? (gid)
  • Norman: dgide (Jersey)
  • ? Middle English: giden, gide
    • Scots: guide
    • English: guide
      • ? Korean: ??? (gaideu)
      • ? Japanese: ??? (gaido)
      • ? Norwegian: guide
      • ? Swedish: guide

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *g?ody?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??od?-yeh?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??uð?e]

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

Declension

Descendants

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

Mutation


Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

guide c

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

Declension

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driver

English

Etymology

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (driver), Dutch drijver (driver), German Low German Driever (driver), German Treiber (driver).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?d?a?.v?(?)/
  • (US) enPR: dr??v?r, IPA(key): /?d?a?v?/
  • Rhymes: -a?v?(r)

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

  1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
    • 2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen (page 164)
      Luke North was working in the North East District when Harry Patterson the pony driver came by. It was 5.45 o'clock. Luke smelt danger in the air. He walked round the pony to speak with Harry []
  2. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
    • 2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context (page 106)
      The character of work is a driver of social change, at the same time that any new forms of work are the result of broader social change.
  3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
  4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
  5. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  6. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  7. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  8. A mallet.
  9. A tamping iron.
  10. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  11. A screwdriver.
    • 1996, Popular Mechanics (volume 173, number 12)
      Among the driver and screw types available, you'll find several cross-slot varieties including the Reed & Prince []

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • chauffeur
  • conductor
  • pilot
  • rider

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative forms

  • driveur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?aj.vœ?/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

From English drive +? -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?aj.ve/

Verb

driver

  1. (golf outside Louisiana, Cajun French) to drive
Conjugation

Anagrams

  • verdir

Further reading

  • “driver” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Noun

driver m or f (invariable)

  1. driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

driver m (invariable)

  1. driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of drive

Derived terms

  • (of the noun) pådriver

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?d?aj.ve?/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
    Synonym: controlador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.


Swedish

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of driva.

Anagrams

  • vrider

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