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What is the noun for guiding?

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guide
  1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.
  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.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I offered a considerable sum to one of the villagers to go with us and act as our guide through the mountains.”
      “The tour guide helpfully tells tourists that the sculptures were brought to London for safekeeping.”
      “She studied a pocket guide of Washington.”
guideline
  1. A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
  2. A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
  3. A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The general guideline for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.”
      “The widespread frequency of serum blood chemistry analyses in medicine requires an appropriate guideline for evaluating abnormal test results.”
      “The government is soon set to make its decisions on how to address guideline prices and other issues concerning the auctioneering business.”
guideword
  1. A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
  2. (publishing) A word that is printed at the top or bottom of the page in a reference work, in order to help readers find a specific entry.
  3. (chiefly business) Any of the words in a memo or email that define metadata regarding the message, such as sender, recipient, and subject.
guidance
  1. The act or process of guiding.
  2. Advice or counselling on some topic.
  3. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “As part of your role, we expect you to provide guidance to less experienced team members.”
      “This manual will provide some guidance on how to operate the milk frother.”
      “The company began to flourish under the guidance of its visionary leader.”
guidage
  1. The fee paid to a guide.
  2. (obsolete) guidance; lead; direction
  3. Examples:
    1. “In France, more than 2,800 patients have been included in the GuidAge study, which is carried out in collaboration with 25 memory hospitals.”
      “Another large scale study with EGb 761, the GUIDAGE study with 2854 patients aged 70 and above, is currently ongoing in France.”
      “In the French GuidAge study, groups of elderly people with memory complaints were randomly assigned 240 milligrams per day of ginkgo extract, or a placebo, to be taken daily.”
guidepost
  1. A signpost.
  2. (by extension) Anything that provides guidance; a guideline.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The statistic is designed to be relative and a guidepost for continued government welfare funding.”
      “We envision a more regular and frequent production of Spartacist, which should enable it to serve as a guidepost for the sectional presses.”
      “This article begins with a brief guidepost to the major branches of geometry and then proceeds to an extensive historical treatment.”
guiding
guideway
  1. A track along which something is guided, such as a component in a machine, or an automated transit vehicle.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The guideway is 75 feet high in some areas and averages 50 feet above the tarmac.”
      “Typically two guideway support columns were under construction at any one time.”
      “The five-mile precast guideway, 50 ft high, required 30,000 night gate closures, airfield work and 300,000 sq ft of terminal renovation.”
guideboard
  1. A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was no guideboard, and he could not remember by which road he had come.”
      “Traditional guideboard, light box, single column display and neon cannot satisfy audience's needs.”
      “The Halfmoon Branch is located at the intersection of Route 9 and Guideboard Road.”
guidelight
  1. (sometimes figuratively) A light that serves to guide.
guidaunce
  1. Obsolete form of guidance.
guidress
  1. (rare) A female guide.
guideress
  1. (obsolete) A female guide.
guideship
  1. The role or status of guide.
guidee
  1. (rare) One who is guided.
guider
  1. One who guides.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was the politician of the concern, the handshaker, the guider of its policy.”
      “Finally, God himself is the guider and director of him that ruleth, here prescribing to him how he is to rule, viz.”
      “Also pictured are members of the guide company and guider Miss Pamela Hawkins.”
guideboards
  1. plural of guideboard
guidelights
  1. plural of guidelight
guidelines
  1. plural of guideline
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The guidelines focus on requirements for flammability, tear strength, abrasion resistance, washability, scrubbability, and stain resistance.”
      “Clearly it is time for standards and guidelines on best practice for all professionals.”
      “The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant guidelines for bias-free writing is a product of pointy-headed wowsers.”
guideposts
  1. plural of guidepost
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Having grown up in North America, modern Western culture has become the source of most of my guideposts, tastes, and habitual perspectives.”
      “We will turn to the final two guideposts after this section, which deals specifically with our activity as citizens.”
      “And the sooner we can kind of get those guideposts from our present administration, the better we will be able to form our work.”
guidewords
  1. plural of guideword
guideresses
  1. plural of guideress
guidances
guideways
  1. plural of guideway
guidages
  1. plural of guidage
guidings
guidees
  1. plural of guidee
guiders
  1. plural of guider
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They were then directed by two guiders armed with mobile phones, who were based at the shopping centre trying to solve a selection of cryptic clues.”
      “More than 2000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers and Guiders from York, Selby and Tadcaster packed into York's Barbican Centre for their Millennium Thinking Day.”
      “Around 400 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Guiders will assemble in Trowbridge Park on Sunday February 16 at 2pm for a procession to mark the occasion.”
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