Guide (disambiguation)

A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.

Guide or The Guide may also refer to:

Occupations

 * Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation
 * Museum docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place
 * Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted
 * Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles
 * Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines

Reference works

 * Compendium, a work intended to summarize human knowledge in a particular field
 * Encyclopedia, a work intended to summarize the whole of human knowledge
 * Field guide, a reference for quickly identifying organisms or objects
 * Guide book, a book that summarize attractions for tourists
 * Guide to information sources, a work summarizing the important sources in a particular field
 * Knowledge management database
 * User guide, a book instructing a person how to use a product
 * Price guide, a reference work containing prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
 * Study guide, a document intended to foster comprehension of literature, research topics, history, or other subjects

Media with the title

 * Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10- to 14-year-olds
 * The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
 * Guide (film), a Hindi film based on the novel
 * The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film
 * The Guide (Wommat), a 1994 album by Youssou N'Dour
 * Guide (magazine), a Philippine religious bimonthly magazine published by the Sonshine Media Network International
 * The Guide, renamed WOW247, an entertainment supplement of The News (Portsmouth)
 * "The Guide", a 2016 song by Kid Cudi from Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'

Places

 * Guide, Henan, a former name of Shangqiu in Henan, China
 * Guide County in Qinghai, China
 * Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
 * Guide, Mirandela, a village in Portugal
 * Guide River, New Zealand
 * The Guides, two islands off South Georgia
 * Washington State Route 539, officially named the Guide Meridian Road, commonly known as "The Guide"

Ships

 * 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

Technology

 * In mechanical design, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example:
 * Guide rail
 * The “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
 * A loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt
 * Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
 * Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system
 * Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
 * Guide (software company), a software company that designs an app for changing text into streaming audio and video
 * GUIDE International, a defunct IBM computer user group