Guard vs. Guide — What's the Difference?

Watch over in order to protect or control

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.

Protect against damage or harm

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

A person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place

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

A device worn or fitted to prevent injury or damage

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

A defensive posture that is adopted in a boxing or martial arts contest or in a fight

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

An official who rides on and is in general charge of a train.

A guidebook.

Each of two players either side of the centre.

Something that serves to direct or indicate.

To watch over (a place or person, for example) in order to keep from being damaged, robbed, or injured

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

To supervise the entry and exit through; keep watch at

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 watch over so as to prevent escape or violence

To serve as a guide for; conduct.

To keep from risk or curtailment; ensure the safety or integrity of

To direct the course of; steer

(Sports) To keep (an opposing player) from scoring or playing effectively, usually by remaining close to the player to disrupt offensive play.

To exert control or influence over; direct

To maintain control over, as to prevent indiscretion

To supervise the training or education of.

To furnish (a device or object) with a part that protects people from harm or injury.

To serve as a guide.

(Archaic) To escort as a guard.

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 take precautions

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

To serve as a guard.

A sign that guides people; guidepost.

A person who protects, keeps watch, or acts as a sentinel

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

The act or duty of guarding.

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

Protection; watch

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

Something that gives protection; a safeguard

A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.

An attachment or covering put on a machine to protect the operator or a part of the machine.

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

A device on a foil, sword, or knife that protects the hand.

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

A padded covering worn to protect a body part from injury

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

A small chain or band attached to a watch or bracelet to prevent loss.

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

A ring worn to prevent a more valuable ring from sliding off the finger.

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

An honor guard.

To exert control or influence over someone or something.

Chiefly British A railway employee in charge of a train.

To supervise the education or training of someone.

(Football) One of the two offensive linemen on either side of the center.

(intransitive) to act as a guide.

(Basketball) Either of the two players normally positioned in the backcourt who are responsible for bringing the ball to and initiating offensive plays from the frontcourt.

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

(Sports) A defensive position or stance, as in boxing or fencing.

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

(Electronics) A signal that prevents accidental activation of a device or ambiguous interpretation of data.

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.

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

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

(Ireland) A garda; a police officer.

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

(military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

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.

The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.

Someone employed to conduct others

A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

Someone who shows the way by leading or advising

A watchchain.

Something that offers basic information or instruction

(Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

A model or standard for making comparisons

(uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.

Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.

Take somebody somewhere;

(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.

Be a guiding force, as with directions or advice;

(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.

Use as a guide;

(martial arts) A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.

Guide or pass over something;

(sports) A player playing a position named guard.

(rail) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.

A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.

(aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

To fasten by binding; to gird.

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

To fasten by binding; to gird.

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.

A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.

One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.

Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss

A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.

An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.

Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.

The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

A person who keeps watch over something or someone

The person who plays that position on a football team;

A device designed to prevent injury

A posture of defence in boxing or fencing;

The person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team

A group of men who escort and protect some important person

A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.;

The duty of serving as a sentry;

A position on the line of scrimmage;

A position on a basketball team

To keep watch over;

Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;

Protect against a challenge or attack;

Take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence;