VADE MECUM Synonyms

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a traveler who accompanies you

• one paid to accompany or assist or live with another

• be a companion to somebody

• a publication containing a variety of works

• a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

• someone employed to conduct others

• someone who shows the way by leading or advising

• something that offers basic information or instruction

• a model or standard for making comparisons

• someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

• a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• take somebody somewhere

• be a guiding or motivating force or drive

• use as a guide

• pass over, across, or through

• of or relating to the hands

• requiring human effort

• a small handbook

• (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle

• doing or requiring physical work

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• an indicator that orients you generally

• a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts

• a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the act of referring or consulting

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

• (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

• the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to

• refer to

• a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location