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Shield
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.; A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
"Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame."
- 2 hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles wordnet
- 3 Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.; One who protects or defends. figuratively
"Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."
- 4 armor carried on the arm to intercept blows wordnet
- 5 Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.; In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
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- 6 a protective covering or structure wordnet
- 7 Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.; A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
"The earth was excavated from the sunken cylinder; the shield was inserted into it, and the tunnelling began, the target being Wapping, on the opposite bank. The shield was an iron honeycomb containing thirty-six cells within which men dug the wall of mud before them."
- 8 Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.; A field of energy that protects or defends.
"Kinetic barriers, colloquially called "shields", provide protection against most mass accelerator weapons. Whether on a starship or a soldier's suit of armor, the basic principle remains the same. Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair."
- 9 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
"Meronyms: field, charge, emblem"
- 10 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; A toilet seat. Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete
- 11 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
"Bespotted as with shields of red and black."
- 12 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield. obsolete
- 13 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- 14 A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.; A police badge. colloquial
"The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield."
- 15 A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- 16 A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.; A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- 17 A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. Scotland, euphemistic, figuratively, obsolete
- 18 Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision British, English
- 1 To protect, to defend. ambitransitive
"Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays."
- 2 protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm wordnet
- 3 To shelter; to protect oneself. UK, intransitive
"The government has updated its guidance for people who are shielding taking into account that COVID-19 disease levels have decreased over the last few weeks."
- 4 hold back a thought or feeling about wordnet
- 5 To protect from the influence of.
Etymology
From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”). Compare Breton skoed (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Scottish Gaelic sgiath (“shield”), Latin scūtum (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Belarusian шчыт (ščyt, “shield”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian щит (ščyt, “shield”), Czech and Slovak štít (“shield”), Macedonian штит (štit, “shield”), Polish szczyt (“shield”), Serbo-Croatian штит, štit, ščit (“shield”), Slovene ščit (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”).
From Middle English shelden, from Old English scildan.
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