(n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
(v. t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
(v. t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
(v. t.) 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
(v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
(v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(3) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(4) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(5) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(6) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(7) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(8) The large degree of inter-dose fluctuation between doses indicates that it is preferable to use pre-dose plasma sodium valproate levels to guide the clinical management of epileptic patients.
(9) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(10) This article discusses known mechanisms, physiologic examples, and clinical consequences of body-water changes with age, and suggests that careful monitoring of these changes can lead to better guiding of medication and fluid administration to avoid preventable complications.
(11) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
(12) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(13) Dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) was studied in monkeys trained to make visually guided eye or arm movements.
(14) In contrast, US-guided FNAC had an accuracy of 89% (62 of 70), a sensitivity of 76% (25 of 33), and a specificity of 100% (37 of 37).
(15) In the experimental immunopharmacognostic phase, immunomodulatory compounds are isolated and purified through action-guided fractionation procedures.
(16) The content and dynamics of two 11-session psychotherapy groups led by physicians for 18 adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are described as a guide for others wishing to use this form of treatment.
(17) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
(18) A physical grading of some well-known sunburn protectors is described as a guide to the choice of preparation.
(19) Selection of the appropriate guiding catheter is a critical early decision.
(20) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
Guise
Definition:
(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(2) Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
(3) Some desire just to live in the old ways but in a new guise: newly rich and empowered.
(4) Ethical issues regarding saline infusion in the guise of a potent convulsant should also be considered.
(5) While the U.S. Bureau of the Census has had a long-standing policy of abstaining from enumerating the religious beliefs or backgrounds of the American people, at least two-thirds of the Jewish population of the United States has been enumerated in decennial censuses and sample surveys in the guise of persons of Russian stock or origin.
(6) They were not observed in the hybrid cells but had supposedly reappeared in the guise of the CBs.
(7) Among China's other arguments are that countries should not interfere in each other's domestic affairs; that western definitions of human rights do not acknowledge China's fast-rising living standards; and that the west is seeking to impose its own standards in the guise of "universal values".
(8) Russia’s takeover of Crimea was done under the guise of a snap exercise.
(9) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(10) The Foreign Office should not hide behind any relationship with foreign governments under the guise of ‘commercial sensitivity’,” they said.
(11) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(12) Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Trimingham, told Mr Justice Tugendhat the newspaper had a right to freedom of expression, but not to abuse her repeatedly under the guise of exercising that freedom.
(13) We suggest that PMR may present in a variety of guises, or have a "stuttering evolution" to the full syndrome.
(14) Kim may have ordered the confiscation of copies of the video under the guise of a crackdown on pornography, Ishimaru said.
(15) In the guise of a creative writing experiment, male and female college students were asked to listen to a tape recording of a same- or opposite-sex model relating a story in response to a sample TAT card.
(16) The inventions all seemed to herald a brave new world of British prosperity that never transpired, at least not in its engineering guise.
(17) What he of course won't accept is efforts to do away with the ACA that come in the guise of improvements.
(18) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.
(19) Unlike most character comedians, who tend to keep their repertoire to half a dozen guises at the most, Enfield is known for doing such a broad spectrum of characters that it seems a strange choice to take one sketch and stretch it out into an hour and a half's worth of gags big enough to look good on 35mm.
(20) Army troops violently dispersed several protests in Tahrir Square and, in one incident admitted by the ruling generals, sexually assaulted female protesters under the guise of " virginity checks ".