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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)
- 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.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
- A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (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)
- to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- to exert control or influence over someone or something.
- to supervise the education or training of someone.
- (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)
- guide person
- 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
- plural of guida
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English guide.
Noun
guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)
- a guide (person who guides tourists)
- 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)
- 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)
- a guide (person who guides tourists)
- 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)
- to guide (usually tourists)
Alternative forms
- gaide, guida
References
- “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Noun
guide m or f
- 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)
- verbal noun of guidid
- 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
- 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
- guide (person who guides)
- Synonym: vägledare
- (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)
- Synonym: assistent
Declension
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spur
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sp?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spura, spora, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”).
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Meronyms: rowel, prick
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
- Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- (figuratively) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Derived terms
- spur gear
- spur-leather
- spur-of-the-moment
- spur road
Translations
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive; see also Thesaurus:incite
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV, line 4.
- My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth...
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
Derived terms
- spur on
Translations
Etymology 2
See sparrow.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A tern.
Etymology 3
Short for spurious.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
Etymology 4
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
Translations
Etymology 5
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
- The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
Anagrams
- Prus, purs, surp
Middle English
Noun
spur
- Alternative form of spore
Scots
Alternative forms
- sparra
- spug
- spuggie
- speug
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- sparrow
References
- “spur” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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