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Guiding   /gˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Guiding

adjective
1.
Exerting control or influence.
2.
Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on.  Synonyms: directing, directional, directive.  "The directional role of science on industrial progress"


Guide

verb
(past & past part. guided; pres. part. guiding)
1.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.  Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer.
2.
Take somebody somewhere.  Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take.  "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"
3.
Be a guiding or motivating force or drive.  Synonym: steer.
4.
Use as a guide.  Synonym: guide on.
5.
Pass over, across, or through.  Synonyms: draw, pass, run.  "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine" , "He drew her hair through his fingers"



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"Guiding" Quotes from Famous Books



... mediumistic or subliminal faculties as extraordinary as those which he vaguely felt himself to possess. One would have in this connection to study the mysterious practices of ancient India and of Egypt; the numerous and persistent legends of animals talking, guiding their masters and foretelling the future; and, nearer to ourselves, in history proper, all that science of augury and soothsaying which derived its omens from the flight of birds, the inspection of ...
— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck
... quickly attracted a large following among the urban middle classes all over India. But as the number of those who attended its annual sessions, held in turn in every province, grew larger, it became less amenable to the guiding and restraining influence of those who had created it, and especially of those who had hoped to lead it in the path of social and religious reform as well as ...
— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol
... intention was no doubt guiding the vicuna, for at that moment it stretched forth its neck, and trotted a few paces towards us. It suddenly halted. The wind was in our favour, else we should have been scented long ago. But we were suspected. The creature halted, threw up ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid
... I hope no artist will ever be insane enough to make it the guiding principle of his art. I shudder to think of any conscious attempt in a picture to relate the type to the archetype. It is a philosophical definition, solely intended for the spectator. I wish the artist only to paint his vision, ...
— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell
... of Design was now established on a firm footing and could spare his guiding hand for a few years. He had saved enough money to defray his expenses on a strictly economical basis, but, to make assurance doubly sure, he sought and received commissions from his friends and patrons in America for copies ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse


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