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单词 guiding
释义 I. guiding, vbl. n.|ˈgaɪdɪŋ|
[f. guide v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb guide in various senses; leading or showing the way; administration, management, command; guidance, governance, direction.
c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 59, I..Ouer all desertys, forestes and chases, Haue take the guydyng.1462Paston Lett. No. 453 II. 104 The gidyng and governaunce of the Barge of Yermouthe.1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 64 Take hede of the guydyng of him that thou axes conseyle of.c1500Three Kings Sons 139 As to the guydyng of your warres, they se neither rewle nor ordenaunce.1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxviii. 141 Y⊇ seneshall..rode bywayes couert about y⊇ towne by gidyng of the spye.1529Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 122 For the rewill and gydin of thair skuill.1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 954 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, Sa oft as I misvsit my sell, In guyding of the giftis of grace.1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Chandos 46 Charles, duke of Romandie had second guiding.1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vii. 14 Throuch..his gydeng, Scotland was now at a gude poynte.1609Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 155 a, Paid to Thomas Carr and Richard Bilsburie for guideing of the windowes for 5 daies..vj s. viij d.1637Sanderson Serm. II. 87 For the better guiding of those that are desirous of this learning.1888C. Dent in Chambers' Encycl. I. 192 (art. Alps) It must be borne in mind that guiding too is an art.
b. (See quot. Cf. guidage 1.) Obs. rare—1.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 693 Guidings, i.e. money given for false guidance and conduct.
2. The conducting or ruling of oneself, behaviour, conduct; pl. doings, ‘goings-on’. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
c1460G. Ashby Dicta Philos. 177 Poems 51 A kynge sholde knowe al his owne seruantes, Their rule, ther gidyng and condicion.1500–20Dunbar Poems xix. 41, I wald my gyding war diwysit; Gif I spend littill I am despysit.1508Tua mariit wemen 451 Wise women has wayis, and wonderfull gydingis.1567Satir. Poems Reform. vii. 215 God maid hir paine aggre with hir guyding.1572Ibid. xxxiv. 12 Thair lyfis and guydingis ar detest.
3. attrib., as guiding-rod, guiding-staff; guiding-stick, an artist's mahl stick.
1607Dekker Whore Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 270 On each leader Bestowe a guiding-staffe.1857W. Smith Thorndale v. iii, Clarence..steps out from behind his easel, and with his guiding-stick in his hand by way of wand, unveils to me the programme of the Future.1885E. C. Agassiz Life Louis Agassiz II. 614 Nemesis wields rather a guiding-rod than a scourge.
II. guiding, ppl. a.|ˈgaɪdɪŋ|
[f. guide v. + -ing2.]
a. That guides, in the senses of the vb.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 111, I giue Me and my seruice..Into your guiding power.1671Milton Samson 1 A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps.a1691J. Flavel Sea-Deliverances (1754) 166 The guiding usefulness of it [the sun] to us.176.Cowper To Miss Macartney 95 So may your guiding angel give Whate'er you wish or love.1856Bagehot Coll. Works (1965) I. 362 When we had learned the great landmarks, understood the guiding-stars, we might amuse ourselves with small points.1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vii, It being one of Wegg's guiding rules in life.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 97 Good is to become the guiding principle of politics.1899Lecky Map of Life xvii. 328 The great guiding landmarks of a wise life.1900Q. Rev. Jan. 73 He [Goethe] has been a sort of guiding star to them.1961A. O. J. Cockshut Imagination of Charles Dickens x. 141 Here Dickens's sense of the superiority of life to fact, which is the guiding star of the novel, up to this point, seems ironically to have deserted him.1962Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 1/1 ‘Guiding light’ on pay rises.Ibid., A ‘guiding light’ figure, about 2½ per cent., which unions and employers would be expected to accept.
b. Coal-mining. guiding-bed (see quot.).
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Guiding Bed, a thin band or seam of coal, &c., in a nip leading to the regular seam on either side of it.
c. guiding telescope: a visual telescope fixed rigidly to a photographic telescope so that the latter may be ‘guided’ manually to follow the course of a star, etc., kept under observation during an exposure.
1897A. H. Miles Concise Knowl. Astron. ii. xv. 195 In the guiding telescope are two spider threads at right angles to each other, and it is by constantly keeping the image of a star at the intersection of these ‘wires’ that the operator ensures the images remaining in a constant position upon the sensitive plate.1945Dimitroff & Baker Telescopes & Accessories vii. 252 It is not advisable to use as a guiding telescope one whose aperture is less than one half of that used in the photographic telescope.1959T. Rackham Astron. Photogr. at Telescope iv. 68 It has long been the custom to mount a short focal length wide aperture camera on a larger telescope of greater focal length and, using the latter as a guiding telescope, make long exposures at the night sky.1959Listener 22 Jan. 162/1 The 50-inch reflector does not possess a separate guiding telescope.
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