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Grammar : Verb
Spell : gahyd
Phonetic Transcription : gaɪd

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Définition of guiding

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to lead, direct, conduct," from Old French guider "to guide, lead, conduct" (14c.), earlier guier, from Frankish *witan "show the way" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wit- "to know" (cf. German weisen "to show, point out," Old English witan "to see"), from PIE *weid- "to see" (see vision). The form of the French word influenced by Old Provençal guidar (n.) "guide, leader," or Italian guidare, both from the same source. Related: Guided; guiding.
  • verb direct, lead
Example sentences :
  • He straightened up and held out his hand, guiding me to a seat beside him.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • But to view it as a part of a normal growth is to secure the basis for guiding it.
  • Extract from : « The Child and the Curriculum » by John Dewey
  • And then, like a guiding beacon, a point of green showed once more.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • Was there no guiding mind, no military talent, no common sense?
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • Jones asked, guiding the ship in a slow spiral over the planet.
  • Extract from : « The Hour of Battle » by Robert Sheckley
  • The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The next morning they started, guiding their course by the Sun.
  • Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
  • The mind of Xenophon: guiding principles, rule of Health, rule of Forethought.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • The Duke was the guiding spirit of the institution until his death in 1843.
  • Extract from : « Hampstead and Marylebone » by Geraldine Edith Mitton
  • Religion in its broad sense is its fundamental and guiding principle.
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

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