Guide vs Manage - 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.
To direct or be in charge of.
To handle or control (a situation, job).
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
To succeed at an attempt
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, title= To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
The act of managing or controlling something.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
(horseriding) .
Guide is a related term of manage.
As verbs the difference between guide and manage
is that guide is while manage is to direct or be in charge of.As a noun manage is
the act of managing or controlling something.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.
References
* (guide) * * * ----manage
English
Verb
(manag)- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
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Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
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- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageableNoun
(-)- the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl