Guard

[gɑːd] or [ɡɑrd]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a position on a basketball team.

(noun.) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; 'guards must be good blockers'.

(noun.) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents.

(noun.) a posture of defence in boxing or fencing; 'keep your guard up'.

(noun.) a military unit serving to protect some place or person.

(noun.) the person who plays that position on a football team; 'the left guard was injured on the play'.

(noun.) a person who keeps watch over something or someone.

(noun.) the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team.

(verb.) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; 'guard my possessions while I'm away'.

(verb.) to keep watch over; 'there would be men guarding the horses'.

(verb.) take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence; 'guard against becoming too friendly with the staff'; 'guard against infection'.

編輯:雷金纳德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.

(n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

(n.) To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

(n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

(v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.

(v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.

(v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.

(v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss

(v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.

(v. t.) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.

(v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.

(v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

(v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.

(v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

(v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.

(v. t.) A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.

(v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.

(v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.

(v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

錄入:诺兰

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Protect, defend, shield, shelter, keep in safety.

v. n. Watch, take care, be cautious, be vigilant.

n. [1]. Defence, protection, shield, security, bulwark, rampart, ægis, palladium, safeguard.[2]. Sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman.[3]. Convoy, escort, conduct, body of defenders.[4]. Circumspection, care, watchfulness, caution, attention, heed.[5]. Conductor (of a coach or of a railway train).

手打:诺娜

同義詞及反義詞：

[See PROTECT]

整理:泰丝

解釋/意思:

v.t. to ward watch or take care of: to protect from danger or attack: to protect the edge of as by an ornamental border.—v.i. to watch: to be wary.—n. that which guards from danger: a man or body of men stationed to protect: one who has charge of a coach or railway-train: state of caution: posture of defence: part of the hilt of a sword: a watch-chain: (pl.) troops attached to the person of a sovereign: (cricket) the pads which protect the legs from swift balls.—adj. Guard′able.—n. Guard′age (Shak.) wardship.—adjs. Guard′ant (her.) having the face turned towards the beholder; Guard′ed wary: cautious: uttered with caution.—adv. Guard′edly.—ns. Guard′edness; Guard′house Guard′room a house or room for the accommodation of a guard of soldiers where defaulters are confined; Guard′ian one who guards or takes care of: (law) one who has the care of an orphan minor.—adj. protecting.—n. Guard′ianship.—adj. Guard′less without a guard: defenceless.—ns. Guard′ship a ship of war that superintends marine affairs in a harbour and protects it: (Swift) guardianship; Guards′man a soldier of the guards.—Guardian angel an angel supposed to watch over a particular person: a person specially devoted to the interests of another.—Mount guard to go on guard-duty; On or Off one's guard on the watch or the opposite; Run the guard to get past a guard or sentinel without detection.

整理:保罗