1. Noun
The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
2. Verb
To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
3. Verb
To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
4. Verb
A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
5. Verb
One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
6. Verb
Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
7. Verb
A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
8. Verb
A grooved director for a probe or knife.
9. Verb
A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
10. Verb
A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
11. Noun
a model or standard for making comparisons
Vocabulary classified under Psychology
12. Noun
a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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