Guide vs. Teach

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

Example: ‘The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.’;

A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.

A sign that guides people; guidepost.

Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.

A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.

A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.

A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.

A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.

(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.

(military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.

to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.

to exert control or influence over someone or something.

to supervise the education or training of someone.

(intransitive) to act as a guide.

To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.

Example: ‘I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court.’;

To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.

Example: ‘He will guide his affairs with discretion.’; ‘The meek will he guide in judgment.’;

A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.

One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life; a director; a regulator.

Example: ‘He will be our guide, even unto death.’;

Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator

A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directing flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.

someone employed to conduct others

someone who shows the way by leading or advising

something that offers basic information or instruction

a model or standard for making comparisons

someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

take somebody somewhere;

Example: ‘We lead him to our chief’; ‘can you take me to the main entrance?’; ‘He conducted us to the palace’;

be a guiding force, as with directions or advice;

Example: ‘The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses’;

use as a guide;

Example: ‘They had the lights to guide on’;

guide or pass over something;

Example: ‘He ran his eyes over her body’; ‘She ran her fingers along the carved figurine’; ‘He drew her hair through his fingers’;

A guide is a person who leads travelers, sportsmen, or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations. The term can also be applied to a person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or wisdom.

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

Example: ‘‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.’;

(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

Example: ‘Can you teach me to sew?’; ‘Can you teach sewing to me?’;

(intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

Example: ‘She used to teach at university.’;

(ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.

(ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Example: ‘I'll teach you to make fun of me!’;

teacher

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

Example: ‘If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them.’;

To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.

Example: ‘The village master taught his little school.’;

To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

Example: ‘I shall myself to herbs teach you.’; ‘They have taught their tongue to speak lies.’;

To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

Example: ‘And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.’; ‘The priests thereof teach for hire.’;

an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

impart skills or knowledge to;

Example: ‘I taught them French’; ‘He instructed me in building a boat’;

accustom gradually to some action or attitude;

Example: ‘The child is taught to obey her parents’;