Shelter
['ʃeltə] or ['ʃɛltɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger.
(noun.) protective covering that provides protection from the weather.
(noun.) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons.
(verb.) invest (money) so that it is not taxable .
(verb.) provide shelter for; 'After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people'.
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To take shelter.
Checker: Rupert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Asylum, refuge, retreat, covert, sanctuary, harbor, haven.[2]. Protection, shield, screen, defence, security, safety.
v. a. Shield, screen, hide, shroud, protect, defend, cover, house, harbor, lodge, ensconce.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Refuge, cover, harbor, asylum, retreat, shield, security, sanctuary,[See DIVIDE]
SYN:Shield, conceal, cover, protect, screen
ANT:Expose, surrender, betray, imperil, endanger
Checked by Giselle
Definition
n. that which shields or protects: a refuge: a retreat a harbour: protection.—v.t. to cover or shield: to defend: to conceal.—v.i. to take shelter.—n. Shel′terer.—adjs. Shel′terless; Shel′tery affording shelter.
Typed by Lloyd
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are building a shelter, signifies that you will escape the evil designs of enemies. If you are seeking shelter, you will be guilty of cheating, and will try to justify yourself.
Checker: Nicole
Examples
- Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A little further on, I passed the boy crouching for shelter under the lee of the sand hills. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Stooping, he crawled into the shelter beside the wounded officer, and placed a cool hand upon his forehead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Suddenly the man hastened from the shelter only to return a few minutes later with several pieces of bark and--wonder of wonders--a lead pencil. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The modern boss, on the other hand, shelters behind legal forms which he has got hold of and uses for his own ends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps there would be rude wind shelters of boughs on one side of the encampment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was one of the oldest farms in the neighbourhood, situated in a solitary, sheltered spot, inland at the junction of two hills. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My new name sheltered me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And her he loved with all the great, overweening, sheltering love of a dying man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checked by Dylan