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GUIDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to guidance or control especially after launching
Example:
a guided missile
Classified under:
Similar:
radio-controlled (operated and guided by radio)
target-hunting (guided automatically toward the target)
Antonym:
unguided (not subject to guidance or control after launching)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb guide
Context examples:
A thin, flexible tube that is inserted into a vein in the upper arm and guided (threaded) into a large vein near the heart called the vena cava.
(Peripherally inserted central catheter, NCI Dictionary)
It uses breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress.
(Mindfulness relaxation, NCI Dictionary)
Image-guided radiation therapy makes radiation therapy more accurate and causes less damage to healthy tissue.
(Image Guided Radiation Therapy, NCI Dictionary)
A device that uses a computer-guided probe to perform breast biopsies.
(Mammotome, NCI Dictionary)
Guided by theory and research, their practice considers all influences on health status and the related social and behavioral problems arising because of the patient's physiological condition.
(Medical-Surgical Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
I saw you with the very person who had guided you in that year of misery.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful friend; so easily guided that his worth was invaluable; but she checked herself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But I thought it was right, Elinor, said Marianne, to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
At the same time it is fair to observe, that I am one of those who always judge for themselves, and are by no means implicitly guided by others.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
