Guide (disambiguation)

A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.

Guide or The Guide may also refer to:

Occupations

• Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation
• Museum docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place
• Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted
  • Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles
• Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines

Reference works

• Compendium, a work intended to summarize human knowledge in a particular field
• Encyclopedia, a work intended to summarize the whole of human knowledge
• Field guide, a reference for quickly identifying organisms or objects
• Guide book, a book that summarize attractions for tourists
• Guide to information sources, a work summarizing the important sources in a particular field
• Knowledge management database
• User guide, a book instructing a person how to use a product
• Price guide, a reference work containing prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
• Study guide, a document intended to foster comprehension of literature, research topics, history, or other subjects

Media with the title

• Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10- to 14-year-olds
• The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
  • Guide (film), a Hindi film based on the novel
• The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film
• The Guide (Wommat), a 1994 album by Youssou N'Dour
• Guide (magazine), a Philippine religious bimonthly magazine published by the Sonshine Media Network International
• The Guide, renamed WOW247, an entertainment supplement of The News (Portsmouth)
• "The Guide", a 2016 song by Kid Cudi from Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'

Places

• Guide, Henan, a former name of Shangqiu in Henan, China
• Guide County in Qinghai, China
• Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
• Guide, Mirandela, a village in Portugal
• Guide River, New Zealand
• The Guides, two islands off South Georgia
• Washington State Route 539, officially named the Guide Meridian Road, commonly known as "The Guide"

Ships

• Guide, a New Zealand Company teak-built Calcutta pilot brig wrecked in 1846
• Guide (ship), a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855
• USC&GS Guide (1918), an American survey ship in service from 1923 to 1941
• USC&GS Guide (1929), an American survey ship in service from 1941 to 1942
• USS Guide (AMc-83), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1941
• USS Guide (AM-447), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1954

Technology

• In mechanical design, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example:
  • Guide rail
  • The “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
  • A loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt
• Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
  • Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system
• Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
• Guide (software company), a software company that designs an app for changing text into streaming audio and video
• GUIDE International, a defunct IBM computer user group

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with guide
• All pages with titles containing guide
• Guidance (disambiguation)
• Indian Guides (disambiguation)
• Girl Guides (disambiguation)
• Corps of Guides (disambiguation)
• Pioneer (disambiguation)
• Mentor (disambiguation)