different between guide vs incline

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

English

Alternative forms

• encline (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin incl?n? (“incline, tilt”), from in- + cl?n? (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n
• (verb) enPR: ?nkl?n', IPA^(key): /?n?kla?n/
• (noun) enPR: ?n'kl?n, IPA^(key): /??n.kla?n/

Verb

incline (third-person singular simple present inclines, present participle inclining, simple past and past participle inclined)

1. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

2. (intransitive) To slope.

3. (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

   • 1966, J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170:

     The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […].

Related terms

• inclination

Translations

Noun

incline (plural inclines)

1. A slope.

   To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.

Related terms

• climate
• cline
• decline
• recline

Translations

Further reading

• incline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incline in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• incline at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -nicline

French

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present indicative of incliner
2. third-person singular present indicative of incliner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
5. second-person singular imperative of incliner

Galician

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar

Italian

Adjective

incline (plural inclini)

1. inclined, prone

   Synonyms: facile, propenso

Portuguese

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
3. third-person singular imperative of inclinar

Spanish

Verb

incline

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inclinar.