Guide vs Ideal - What's the difference?
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Someone who , especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.
* Bible, Psalms xlviii. 14
A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
A sign that guides people; guidepost.
Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
# A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
# A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
# (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
(military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
* Shakespeare
to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
to exert control or influence over someone or something.
* Bible, Psalms cxii. 5
to supervise the education or training of someone.
to act as a guide.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
* Rambler
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
* 1818 , ,
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]
(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
As nouns the difference between guide and ideal
is that guide is someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation while ideal is (a perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc.)A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.As a verb guide
is to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.As an adjective ideal is
optimal; being the best possibility.As a proper noun Ideal is
a city in Georgia, USA.guide
English
(wikipedia guide)Noun
(en noun)- The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.
- He will be our guide , even unto death.
Derived terms
* career guide * Girl Guide * guidance * guidebook * guide dog * guideline * guide on the side * guidepost * mountain guide * style guide * tour guide * user guide * user's guideVerb
- Guide me to your sovereign's court.
- He will guide his affairs with discretion.
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
- The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
[[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- the ideal theory or philosophy
- ideal point
- An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
Synonyms
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(en noun)- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -
- If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .
- Let be the ring of integers and let be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring is a Boolean ring.
- The product of two ideals and is an ideal which is a subset of the intersection of and . This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of and is a subset of .