guide vs reading

guide

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

  • 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. 

  • A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery. 

  • A sign that guides people; guidepost. 

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

  • A spirit believed to speak through a medium. 

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

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

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

  • to act as a guide. 

  • to exert control or influence over someone or something. 

  • to supervise the education or training of someone. 

  • to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. 

reading

noun
  • Something to read; reading material. 

  • The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. 

  • A value indicated by a measuring device. 

  • One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law. 

  • The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 

  • The process of interpreting written language. 

  • An event at which written material is read aloud. 

  • An interpretation. 

  • The content of a reading list. 

  • A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience. 

  • The extent of what one has read. 

How often have the words guide and reading occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )