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Guided vs Guiding - What's the difference?

guided | guiding |

As verbs the difference between guided and guiding

is that guided is past tense of guide while guiding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective guided

is subject to guidance.

As a noun guiding is

guidance.

guided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (guide)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Subject to guidance

    • Derived terms

    * guided missile

    guiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • guidance
  • * 1912 , Theodore Dreiser, The Financier
    • Butler was ready to consider any proposition which would save her; but it must be a sound one—one not open to her whimsical moods or the guidings or leadings of romance.
  • Girl Guiding
  • * 2002 , Robert T. Grimm, Notable American Philanthropists (page 189)
    • Daisy Gordon Low then established two Girl Guide troops in poor sections of central London. Her belief was growing that guiding could serve many beneficial ends.