Shielded
['ʃi:ldɪd] or ['ʃildɪd]
Definition
(adj.) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury .
Edited by Cecilia--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Shield
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Examples
- She stretched out the arm with which she had shielded herself, and as she went on, pointed at the object of her anger. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For that reason, and for no other, he shielded me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now as they lay all that before had been shielded was unshielded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In use they were shielded from the wind by thin pieces of horn, and thus the horn lantern originated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But a photograph on glass, which must be carefully shielded from the light and admired only in the dark room, would be neither pleasurable nor practical. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He slid over behind the rocks to where Robert Jordan was crouched beside the brush-shielded automatic rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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