Guide vs. Teach — 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.

To impart knowledge or skill to

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

To provide knowledge of; instruct in

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

To condition to a certain action or frame of mind

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

To cause to learn by example or experience

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

To advocate or preach

A guidebook.

To carry on instruction on a regular basis in

Something that serves to direct or indicate.

To give instruction, especially as an occupation.

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

A teacher.

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

(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

To serve as a guide for; conduct.

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

To direct the course of; steer

(ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).

To exert control or influence over; direct

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

To supervise the training or education of.

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

To serve as a guide.

Teacher

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 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.

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

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.

A sign that guides people; guidepost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Impart skills or knowledge to;

A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.

Accustom gradually to some action or attitude;

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.

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;