Guide vs. Inform — What's the Difference?

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.

Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. Inform can generate programs designed for the Z-code or Glulx virtual machines.

One who shows the way by leading, directing, or advising.

To impart information to; make aware of something

One who serves as a model for others, as in a course of conduct.

To acquaint (oneself) with knowledge of a subject.

A person employed to conduct others, as through a museum, and give information about points of interest encountered.

To give form or character to; imbue with a quality or an essence

Something, such as a pamphlet, that offers basic information or instruction

To be a formative or characterizing presence in; animate

A guidebook.

(Obsolete) To form (the mind or character) by teaching or training.

Something that serves to direct or indicate.

To give or provide information.

A device, such as a ruler, tab, or bar, that serves as an indicator or acts to regulate a motion or operation.

To disclose confidential or incriminating information to an authority

A soldier stationed at the right or left of a column of marchers to control alignment, show direction, or mark the point of pivot.

To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).

To serve as a guide for; conduct.

(transitive) To communicate knowledge to.

To direct the course of; steer

(intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.

To exert control or influence over; direct

To act as an informer; denounce.

To supervise the training or education of.

(transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).

To serve as a guide.

To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.

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

To direct, guide.

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

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

A sign that guides people; guidepost.

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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

To give form or share to; to give vital or organizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.

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

To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; - usually followed by of.

A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.

To communicate a knowledge of facts to, by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.

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

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

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

To give intelligence or information; to tell.

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

Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to;

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

Give character or essence to;

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

Act as an informer;

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.

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

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.

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;

Be a guiding force, as with directions or advice;

Use as a guide;

Guide or pass over something;