Definition of Guiding

1. Adjective. Exerting control or influence. "A guiding principle"

Similar to: Leading

2. Adjective. Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on. "The directional role of science on industrial progress"
Exact synonyms: Directing, Directional, Directive
Similar to: Leading
Derivative terms: Direct, Direct, Directive, Directiveness, Directivity

Definition of Guiding

1. Verb. (present participle of guide) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guiding

1. guide [v] - See also: guide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guiding

guideposts
guider
guideress
guideresses
guiders
guides
guideth
guideway
guideways
guidewheel
guidewheels
guidewire
guideword
guidewords
guidguid
guiding (current term)
guiding centre
guiding light
guidingly
guidings
guidon
guidons
guids
guidwillie
guidwilly
guige
guiges
guild
guild-hall
guild-halls

Literary usage of Guiding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
""I claim the manner of affixing and guiding the circular saw, by allowing end play to its shaft, in combination with the means of guiding it (the saw) by ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"New Self-guiding Catheter.—At a late meetingof the Westminster Medical Society, ... To fulfil these conditions, the self-guiding catheter was constructed. ..."

3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE LITTLE BOY guiding THE PLOW From 'The Moneyless Man, ... And some who have left but a mother at home, With her little boy guiding the plow. ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... yet perforce He left him where he lay, and to and fro Ranged, seeking some brave warrior to his reins ; 140 Nor long his horses lack'da guiding arm ..."

5. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"These with the dredging of the river a start was made with the construction of the foundation of the guiding dam along the whole projected length of 700 ..."

6. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1918)
"(286] guiding Star. in Navigation. it is not often that we hear the n-names of the stars that were used to steer by, which the canoes of the ..."

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