Synonyms of the word

guideline

• n. A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
• n. A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
• n. A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.

counsel

• n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
• n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
• n. Advice; guidance.
• n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
• n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
• n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
• v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
• v. To recommend.

counseling

• n. Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
• v. present participle of counsel.

counselling

• n. (British spelling) Alternative form of counseling.
• v. (British spelling) present participle of counsel.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

guidance

• n. The act or process of guiding.
• n. Advice or counselling on some topic.
• n. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

guidepost

• n. A signpost.
• n. (by extension) Anything that provides guidance; a guideline.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

program

• n. A set of structured activities.
• n. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
• n. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
• n. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific…
• n. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
• v. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to…
• v. (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
• v. (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

programme

• n. British spelling standard spelling of program.
• n. (Britain, dated, possibly nonstandard) Alternative spelling of program (A computer program).
• v. British spelling standard spelling of program.

regulation

• n. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
• n. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct…
• n. (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention…
• n. (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
• n. (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
• adj. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…