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Definition of Guiding
1. Adjective. Exerting control or influence. "A guiding principle"
2. Adjective. Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on. "The directional role of science on industrial progress"
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
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 ..."