Protect
[prə'tekt] or [prə'tɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; 'Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain'.
(verb.) use tariffs to favor domestic industry.
Edited by Alexander--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Defend (by a covering), guard, shield, screen, shelter, house, preserve, secure, save.
Checker: Marge
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate
ANT:Betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose
Typist: Lottie
Definition
v.t. to cover in front: to cover over: to shield from danger: to defend: to shelter.—adv. Protec′tingly.—ns. Protec′tion act of protecting: state of being protected: preservation: defence: that which protects: guard: refuge: security: a writing guaranteeing against molestation or interference: passport: a fostering of home produce and manufactures by laying taxes on the importation of foreign goods; Protec′tionism the doctrine of the protectionists; Protec′tionist one who favours the protection of trade by law.—adj. favouring the economic doctrine of protection.—adj. Protec′tive affording protection: defensive: sheltering.—n. that which protects.—adv. Protec′tively.—ns. Protec′tiveness; Protec′tor one who protects from injury or oppression: a guardian: a regent:—fem. Protec′tress Protec′trix.—adjs. Protec′toral Protectō′rial pertaining to a protector or a regent.—n. Protec′torāte government by a protector: the authority assumed by a superior: relation assumed by a strong nation to a weak one whereby the latter is protected from hostile or foreign interference.—adj. Protec′torless.—ns. Protec′torship; Protec′tory an institution for destitute children.
Edited by Bonita
Examples
- God will protect you; for you have undertaken His work, I answered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They appear even now preparing to advance--God of Zion, protect us! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was to protect private property that the Revolution began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from going north. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You will get of these as many as you can house and protect to such point in the interior as you may be able to occupy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bodies are shipped separate from the chassis, being stood on end in one-half of the car and protected from dust by coverings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Even the slave craftsmen of Babylon and Rome were protected by laws that enabled them to save and buy their freedom and to set up for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The open head of the robe was protected by the rock wall of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When Totila retook Naples from the Greeks, the Goths protected the women from insult and treated even the captured soldiers with humanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All this was arranged so as to afford those inside a good view of the attack, while protecting them in a great measure from the fire of the stormers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It has ball-bearing type bar joints, giving accurate alignment and light key action, the platen rolls to show the work, and the carriage locks at the end of the line, protecting the writing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The aim of civic efficiency has at least the merit of protecting us from the notion of a training of mental power at large. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Leucodore, clione and other borers, parasitic or domiciliary worms work into the shell, and instinctively the protecting nacreous fluid envelops the intruder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What a light, now, on the protecting manner I had thought about! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was very much occupied perfecting new commercial schemes, protecting his patents from a horde of pirates, and planning to introduce his invention into Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Bella hung her head and seemed to shrink a little from Mr Boffin's protecting arm. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These open-coil grills are also very efficient as toasters, the bread being placed on top of the grating, which protects the coils from injury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The soldier stands on picket duty in the rain, and the rubber blanket protects him from rheumatism. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Realization that life is growth protects us from that so-called idealizing of childhood which in effect is nothing but lazy indulgence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Because the whole city is in a league which protects the individual. Plato. The Republic.
- On the other side, it protects us from the notion that subject matter on its side is something isolated and independent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typed by Harrison