Guide and Means

Guide

Guide noun - One that accompanies another for protection, guidance, or as a courtesy.

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Means and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

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Guide and means are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a noun "Means".

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

old	old guide	old means
good	good guide	good means
best	best guide	best means
similar	similar guide	similar means
Other adjectives: certain, popular, actual, real, reliable, little, main, easy, practical, new, available, magical.

Not doing that means she will die during a Cerberus attack that you couldn't possibly have known about without a guide or a previous playthrough.

Source: Guide Dang It / Western RPG
This means the (male) Gym guide can't be found there, and is hanging out in the Rocket Game Corner instead.

Source: Video Game / Pokémon Red and Blue
And yes, the boss' name is Thunderbird, but neither the game nor the instruction manual tells you that, which means you'd have to read a guide.

Source: Guide Dang It / The Legend of Zelda

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