guide vs usher what difference

what is difference between guide and usher

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.

Noun

guide (plural guides)

1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.

   The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlviii. 14

     He will be our guide, even unto death.

2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
   1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
   2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
   3. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor’s eye to the line of copy being set.
6. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Verb

guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)

1. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

Derived terms

• guidee

Translations

References

• guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “guide” in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• digue, iudge

French

Etymology

From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *wītan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡid/
• Homophone: guides
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary.

Derived terms

• chien guide d’aveugle
• guide de conversation
• mener la vie à grandes guides

Related terms

• guider

Descendants

• → Danish: guide
• → Romanian: ghid
• → Russian: гид (gid)

References

• “guide” in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

Further reading

• “guide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• digue

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide

Noun

guide f

1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide

References

• “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guid)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide, guida

References

• “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

guide m or f

1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

• French: guide
  • → Danish: guide
  • → Romanian: ghid
  • → Russian: гид (gid)
• Norman: dgide (Jersey)
• → Middle English: giden, gide
  • Scots: guide
  • English: guide
    • → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
    • → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
    • → Norwegian: guide
    • → Swedish: guide

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷodyā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰodʰ-yeh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuðʲe]

Noun

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
2. prayer
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: guí
• Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
• Scottish Gaelic: guidhe

Mutation

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

guide c

1. guide (person who guides)

   Synonym: vägledare

2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

   Synonym: assistent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ōstium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŭshʹ-ər, IPA^(key): /ˈʌʃəɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈaʃ.ə(ɹ)]
• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈʌʃ.ə(ɹ)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈʌʃ.ɚ]
• Rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ush‧er

Noun

usher (plural ushers)

1. A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
2. A male escort at a wedding.
3. A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
4. (obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.12:

     [H]e defrayed the expence of his entrance, and left him in the particular care and inspection of the usher, who […] though obliged by the scandalous administration of fortune to act in the character of an inferior teacher, had by his sole capacity and application, brought the school to that degree of reputation which it never could have obtained from the talents of his superior.

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 33:

     He began to learn Latin with Mr. Hawkins, usher, or under-master of Lichfield school, ‘a man (said he) very skilful in his little way.’

5. (dated, derogatory) Any schoolteacher.

Synonyms

• (male attendant at a wedding): groomsman, bridesman

Derived terms

• usherette
• usheress

Translations

Verb

usher (third-person singular simple present ushers, present participle ushering, simple past and past participle ushered)

1. To guide people to their seats.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, “The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain.”

     Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
2. To accompany or escort (someone).
   • 1898, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 509

     Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered.

3. (figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
   • 1912, Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750, page 31

     Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.

4. (figuratively, transitive) to lead or guide somewhere

Derived terms

• usher in

Translations

Anagrams

• Huser, Rhues, Ruhes, Uhers, erhus, huers, shure

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