Governed vs Guided - What's the difference?
governed | guided |
(govern)
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
As verbs the difference between governed and guided
is that governed is (govern) while guided is (guide).As an adjective guided is
subject to guidance.governed
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Verb
(head)govern
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Verb
(en verb)- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.