Methodize and Guide

(v.t.) To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.

noun

• Someone employed to conduct others.
  • synonyms: usher
• Someone who shows the way by leading or advising.
• Something that offers basic information or instruction.
  • synonyms: guidebook
• A model or standard for making comparisons.
  • synonyms: template, templet
• Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.
  • synonyms: scout, pathfinder
• A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something.

verb

• Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
  • synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, channelize, channelise
• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
  • synonyms: lead, take, direct, conduct
• Be a guiding or motivating force or drive.
  • usage: "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
  • synonyms: steer
• Use as a guide.
  • usage: "They had the lights to guide on"
  • synonyms: guide on
• Pass over, across, or through.
  • usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
  • synonyms: run, draw, pass

• (n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder or across the neck and shoulder.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
• (v.t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug 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.
• (v.t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
• (v.t.) One who or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
• (v.t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
• (v.t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.