Guard
[gɑːd] or [ɡɑrd]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Reginald--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Nolan
Synonyms and Synonymous
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).
Checker: Nona
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PROTECT]
Editor: Tess
Definition
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.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- I love Miss Fanshawe far more than de Hamal loves any human being, and would care for and guard her better than he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I replied, Never mind the guard, and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on; four angels guard-- Hold your tongue. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One shall guard it at all times. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Good angels be my guard! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At sight of us the members of the guard sprang forward in surprise, and with levelled rifles halted us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Two walked close on either side of Thuvia, as guards might walk. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I begin to think I must be a swell in the Guards without knowing it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I only need to pass these guards and I can do it, he said at last. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Rear guards were not necessary for him, and having always a railroad at his back, large wagon trains were not required. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Ten of us can take the throne, for I had seen that Issus' guards had for the most part entered the fray within the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I gave him all the assistants and guards he called for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Westward rode the scouts and advanced guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All these things must be guarded against or a great loss to the owner is probable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I was guarded in my answer, for I was troubled in my mind with what I had heard and seen. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Although they spoke to each other in guarded tones, their words were pronounced with sufficient distinctness of utterance to reach my ears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You was a saying-- How are you to be guarded from the danger you have incurred? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Our lines covered his front, with the six miles separating the two wings guarded by but a single division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The apartments were restored to their pristine splendour, and the park, all disrepairs restored, was guarded with unusual care. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And this is what you call guarding one's materials, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city? Plato. The Republic.
- How can you imply that he required guarding against me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Lucy here looked up; but Elinor was careful in guarding her countenance from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mine from Bethesda Church by Old Cold Harbor to the Chickahominy, with a division of cavalry guarding our right. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The bridge was seized by Gross's brigade after a slight skirmish with the pickets guarding it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In fact, the enemy having failed to reach our mine had thrown up a line farther back, where most of the men guarding that point were placed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Luke