GUIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guided mean? 

• GUIDED (adjective)
  The adjective GUIDED has 1 sense:

1. subject to guidance or control especially after launching

  Familiarity information: GUIDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to guidance or control especially after launching

Context example:

a guided missile

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)

 Context examples 

The same brain areas were active when participants made decisions about whether to accept a gift from a robot by signalling the evaluations that guided participants’ choices.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

The structure and function of the human brain is guided by gene expression patterns during prenatal development.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

Axons are guided by a variety of guidance factors, such as netrins, ephrins, Slits, and semaphorins.

(Axon Guidance Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Technique for making and testing many complex materials in parallel: computer guided synthesis in which all possible combinations are made.

(Combinatorial Synthesis, NCI Thesaurus)

It was now so dark that there was no sign of the boat; but Wolf Larsen held back through the frightful turmoil as if guided by unerring instinct.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Everyone who knows you, consults with you, and is guided by you, Agnes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A CT-guided biopsy may be done when the abnormal area is deep inside the body or when the doctor cannot feel a lump or mass.

(CT-guided biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

Fluorescence-guided surgery is being studied in the treatment of certain types of brain tumors.

(Fluorescence-guided surgery, NCI Dictionary)

Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The track which guided him was one so seldom used that in places it lost itself entirely among the grass, to reappear as a reddish rut between the distant tree trunks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)