Guide (disambiguation)

Guide or The Guide may refer to:

Contents 1 A source of useful information 2 People 3 Youth movement 4 Places 5 Publications 6 Films 7 Other 8 See also

A source of useful information

• Literary guide, encyclopaedia, compendium or manual, for information, reference or instruction purposes
• Knowledge management database
• Guide book, for tourists
• Course catalog, e.g. an academic course guide
• Price guide, a reference work containing prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
• Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
• Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system

People

• Guide, a person with specialized knowledge of an area who leads or conducts others, such as a tourist guide, mountain guide, wilderness guide, hunting guide, military guide, etc.
• Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted.
• Docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place
• Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines

Youth movement

• A Guide is a member of a Guiding or Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Guiding and Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Guiding and Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations:
  • Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
  • Order of World Scouts
  • Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d′Europe
  • World Federation of Independent Scouts
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
  • World Organization of the Scout Movement
  • List of non-aligned Scouting organizations

Places

• Guide County, in Qinghai, China
• Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
• Guide, Mirandela, a village in Portugal

Publications

• Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10 to 14 year olds

Films

• Guide, a Hindi film by Vijay Anand starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman

Other

• Guide (ship), a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855
• USC&GS Guide, the name of two ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
• The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
  • Guide (film) was also the name of a Hindi film based on the above novel
• GUIDE, a defunct IBM computer user group similar to SHARE (computing)
• Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
• Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles.
• In mechanical usage, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example
  • the “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
  • a loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt
• Washington State Route 539, officially named the Guide Meridian Road, commonly known as "The Guide"

See also

• The Guide (disambiguation)

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