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Guide vs. Usher — What's the Difference?

Guide vs. Usher — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Guide and Usher

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Guide

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.

Usher

One who is employed to escort people to their seats, as in a theater, church, or stadium.

Guide

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

Usher

One who greets guests at a wedding and escorts them to their seats.

Guide

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

One who serves as official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber.

Guide

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

Usher

An official whose duty is to make introductions between unacquainted persons or to precede persons of rank in a procession.

Guide

Something, such as a pamphlet, that offers basic information or instruction
A shopper's guide.

Usher

(Archaic) An assistant teacher in a school.

Guide

A guidebook.

Usher

To serve as an usher to; escort.

Guide

Something that serves to direct or indicate.

Usher

To lead or conduct
The host ushered us into the living room.

Guide

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

Usher

To precede and introduce; inaugurate
A celebration to usher in the new century.

Guide

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

Usher

To serve as an usher
Ushered every Sunday at church.

Guide

To serve as a guide for; conduct.

Usher

A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

Guide

To direct the course of; steer
Guide a ship through a channel.

Usher

A male escort at a wedding.

Guide

To exert control or influence over; direct
Guided the nation through the crisis.

Usher

A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

Guide

To supervise the training or education of.

Usher

(obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.

Guide

To serve as a guide.

Usher

Any schoolteacher.

Guide

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.
The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

Usher

To guide people to their seats.

Guide

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

Usher

To accompany or escort (someone).

Guide

A sign that guides people; guidepost.

Usher

(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

Guide

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

Usher

To lead or guide somewhere.

Guide

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

Usher

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
These are the ushers of Marcius.

Guide

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

Usher

An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

Guide

A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.

Usher

To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; - sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
The stars that usher evening rose.
The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author.

Guide

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

Usher

Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

Guide

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

Usher

An official doorkeeper as in a courtroom or legislative chamber

Guide

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

Usher

Someone employed to conduct others

Guide

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

Usher

Show (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums;
The usher showed us to our seats

Guide

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

Guide

To exert control or influence over someone or something.

Guide

To supervise the education or training of someone.

Guide

(intransitive) to act as a guide.

Guide

To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court.

Guide

To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
He will guide his affairs with discretion.
The meek will he guide in judgment.

Guide

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.

Guide

One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life; a director; a regulator.
He will be our guide, even unto death.

Guide

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

Guide

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.

Guide

Someone employed to conduct others

Guide

Someone who shows the way by leading or advising

Guide

Something that offers basic information or instruction

Guide

A model or standard for making comparisons

Guide

Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

Guide

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Guide

Take somebody somewhere;
We lead him to our chief
Can you take me to the main entrance?
He conducted us to the palace

Guide

Be a guiding force, as with directions or advice;
The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses

Guide

Use as a guide;
They had the lights to guide on

Guide

Guide or pass over something;
He ran his eyes over her body
She ran her fingers along the carved figurine
He drew her hair through his fingers

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