Guide (disambiguation)

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A Guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel thru an area

Guide or The Guide may also refer to:

A source of useful information

Guide to information sources, a work summarizing the important sources in a particular field
Field guide, a reference for quickly identifying organisms or objects
Encyclopaedia, a work intended to summarize the whole of human knowledge
Guide book, a book that summarize attractions for tourists
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
Compendium, a work intended to summarize human knowledge in a particular field
Owners manual, a book instructing a person how to use a product
Knowledge management database

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.
Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation
Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted.
Museum 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

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

Guide (software company), a software company that designs an app for changing text into streaming audio and video
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
The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film
GUIDE International, a defunct IBM computer user group
Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles.
Guide River, New Zealand
The Guides, two islands off South Georgia
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"