# Guide (disambiguation)

A guide is a person with specialized knowledge that helps laypersons travel through an area.
Guide or The Guide may also refer to:

## Occupations

* Girl guide, a female member of a scouting organisation
* Museum docent, a guide at a museum, university or heritage place
* Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted
** Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles
* Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines

## Reference works

* Compendium, a work intended to summarize human knowledge in a particular field
* Encyclopedia, a work intended to summarize the whole of human knowledge
* Field guide, a reference for quickly identifying organisms or objects
* Guide book, a book that summarize attractions for tourists
* Guide to information sources, a work summarizing the important sources in a particular field
* Knowledge management database
* User guide, a book instructing a person how to use a product
* Price guide, a reference work containing prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
* Study guide, a document intended to foster comprehension of literature, research topics, history, or other subjects

## Media with the title

* Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10- to 14-year-olds
* The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
** Guide (film), a Hindi film based on the novel
* The Guide (film), a 2014 Ukrainian film
* The Guide (Wommat), a 1994 album by Youssou N'Dour
* Guide (magazine), a Philippine religious bimonthly magazine published by the Sonshine Media Network International
* The Guide, renamed WOW247, an entertainment supplement of The News (Portsmouth)
* "The Guide", a 2016 song by Kid Cudi from Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'

## Places

* Guide, Henan, a former name of Shangqiu in Henan, China
* Guide County in Qinghai, China
* Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
* Guide, Mirandela, a village in Portugal
* Guide River, New Zealand
* The Guides, two islands off South Georgia
* Washington State Route 539, officially named the Guide Meridian Road, commonly known as "The Guide"

## Ships

* Guide, a New Zealand Company teak-built Calcutta pilot brig wrecked in 1846
* Guide (ship), a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855
* USC&GS Guide (1918), an American survey ship in service from 1923 to 1941
* USC&GS Guide (1929), an American survey ship in service from 1941 to 1942
* USS Guide (AMc-83), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1941
* USS Guide (AM-447), a US Navy minesweeper launched in 1954

## Technology

* In mechanical design, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example:
** Guide rail
** The “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
** A loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt
* Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
** Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system
* Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
* Guide (software company), a software company that designs an app for changing text into streaming audio and video
* GUIDE International, a defunct IBM computer user group