Scout
 the Guides[ plural ](USthe Girl Scouts)
an international organization for young women that encourages them to take part in different activities and to become responsible and independent: 女童子军
In the Guides, you can work towards various Interest Badges.

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AMA
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Beaversphrase
BMA
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mafioso
mason
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MLB
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ranger
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the IOC
the Ordnance Survey
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guide | American Dictionary

guide
noun[ C ]
us/ɡɑɪd/
a person whose job it is to show a place or a route to visitors:
Our tour guide in Rome was a lovely young woman who spoke perfect English.
A guide is also a book or piece of information that gives advice or help on how to do or understand something:
a travel guide
a guide to the best restaurants
a tax guide
guide
verb[ T ]
us/ɡɑɪd/
to show a place or a route to visitors:
She guided me into her living room and offered me a seat on her couch.
We took a guided tour of (= A guide showed us) the historic houses in Newport.
to give someone advice or help on how to do or understand something:
If you want to learn how to use the computer, it has a program that will guide you through it (= show you how to use it).
To guide someone or something can also mean to control or influence that person or thing:
Public policy must be guided by the best information available.

guide | Business English

guide
noun[ C ]
uk /ɡaɪd/us
something that helps you form an opinion or make a decision about something else:
Examine your financial goals using the checklist on page 120 as a guide.
a guide to sthGDP is not always a reliable guide to the health of an economy.
As a rough guide, expect to pay up to €500 for a basic website.
a book, website, etc. that gives you the most important information about a particular subject:
a useful guide for new investors
a guide to sthThe website is an online consumer guide to the best electronic products.
(alsotour guide)
a person whose job is showing a place or a particular route to visitors:
Our guide was full of wonderful stories.
guide
verb
uk /ɡaɪd/us
[ T ]
to help someone form an opinion or make a decision:
The survey is used to guide interest rate policy.
Public opinion is guided by the mass media.
A love of risk and adventure has guided his career.
[ T ]
to show someone how to do something difficult:
guide sb through/to/toward sthOur lawyer guided us through the more complicated questions on the form.
The new system is designed to guide consumers to the cheapest and simplest loan offers.
A team of advisors was hired to guide the company forward.
[ T ]
to take someone somewhere, or make something move in the direction in which you want it to go:
guide sb/sth around/into/toward sthA series of signs guide visitors around the factory.
Guide the motor carefully into place and secure it with the screws.

Examples of guide

guide
The final focal radius is about 2.4 mm in the case with the insulator guide.
Despite the variety of systems, the objectives guiding these reforms have been rather similar.
Here we propose a theoretical framework based on a psycholinguistic grain size approach to guide the collection of evidence in different countries.
The first three chapters develop this interdisciplinary approach by shaping a theoretical framework to guide the five case studies in subsequent chapters.
These kinds of responses were conducive to language development and provided a guide to the students in their thinking about language.
And that's the philosophy that guides me with my own students.
Information pick-up from the global array is not sufficient without adequate exploratory movements and learning to support perceptually guided activity.
Thus, instead of being a mere system description, an appropriately constructed dynamic model can greatly facilitate and guide the control design.
Although neither prediction is specified in detail, we are confident they will ultimately guide new research.
Another example of a characteristic visually guided control is reaching to grasp a visible object.
Rather, egocentric frames of reference (or proximal coding) are typically used in visually guided actions.
There is however a most valuable long entry on the civil war of 1989-97, guiding us lucidly through its acronymic complications.
Overall, this book is a useful and basic reference guide to individual accounts in the international arena.
It will serve as a useful primary information source or the starting point for initial information and guide to further reading for the general reader.
The most important transformation perhaps has been the guiding principle.
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Collocations withguide

guide

These are words often used in combination with guide.

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comprehensive guide
This is a comprehensiveguide to the use of this useful and interesting programming language.
consumer guide
There may also be ways in which the small effects of an evidence-based consumerguide could be enhanced.
field guide
The second section explains how to use the fieldguide.
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