different between guide vs pointer

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

Etymology

point +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??nt?/
• Hyphenation: point?er
• Rhymes: -??nt?(?)

Noun

pointer (plural pointers)

1. Anything that points or is used for pointing.
2. A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.

   Synonym: fescue

   Hyponym: yad

3. A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

   Synonyms: hand, needle

5. (hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.
   • 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:

     Most of the early wirehaired pointers represented a combination of Griffon, Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, and German Shorthair. The Pudelpointer was a cross between a Poodle dog and an English Pointer bitch; the Griffon and the Stichelhaar were composed of Pointer, Foxhound, Pudelpointer, and a Polish water dog.

6. (programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

   Synonym: reference

   Hyponyms: dangling pointer, function pointer, null pointer
7. (graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.

   Synonym: cursor

   • 1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley ?ISBN, page 231:

     The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing the appearance of the pointer. System-busy pointers usually adopt a timepiece metaphor.

8. (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.

   Synonym: advice

1. (in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.

Translations

See also

• (programming) dereference, address

Further reading

• pointer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pointer (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pointer (user interface) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pointer (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Petrino, Petroni, interop, protein, pterion, repoint, tropein, tropine

Dutch

Etymology

From English pointer.

Pronunciation

Noun

pointer m (plural pointers, diminutive pointertje n)

1. (programming) pointer

French

Etymology 1

point +? -er, from the past participle of poindre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pw??.te/
• Homophones: pointai, pointé, pointée, pointées, pointés, pointez
• Rhymes: -e

Verb

pointer

1. to point to/at
2. (by extension) to indicate, to show, to point out
3. to punch in, to clock in
4. (informal, takes a reflexive pronoun) to show up, turn up

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to show up): arriver

Derived terms

• pointage
• pointer du doigt
• zéro pointé

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pointer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pw??.t??/

Noun

pointer m (plural pointers)

1. pointer (dog)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

pointer m (plural pointers)

1. pointer (breed of hunting dog)