Meaning of shield | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
2. A surname.
3. A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
4. 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. One who protects or defends. In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses. A field of energy that protects or defends
5. tally
6. One who protects or defends.
   figuratively
7. A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body
8. To act or serve as a shield or safeguard.
9. plate
10. In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
11. One who protects or defends
12. The act or a means of defending:defense, guard, preservation, protection, protector, safeguard, security, ward.
13. third-person singular present indicative
14. A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
15. In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci
16. To keep safe from danger, attack, or harm:defend, guard, preserve, protect, safeguard, secure, ward.
17. second-person singular imperative
18. A field of energy that protects or defends.
19. (often with from).
    often with
20. A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses
21. 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.
22. The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
23. escudo, cubierta.
24. A toilet seat.
    Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete
25. A broad piece of armor made of rigid material and strapped to the arm or carried in the hand for protection against hurled or thrusted weapons.
26. A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
27. A person or thing that provides protection.
28. A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
    obsolete
29. A protective device or structure, as:a. A steel sheet attached to an artillery piece to protect gunners from small-arms fire and shrapnel.
30. A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
31. Zoology A protective plate or similar hard outer covering; a scute or scutellum.
    Zoology
32. A police badge.
    colloquial
33. Something that resembles a shield, as:a. An escutcheon.
34. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
35. A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
36. A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
    Scotland, euphemistic, figuratively, obsolete
37. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
    British, English

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Examples

“Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame.”

“The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas.”

“My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.”

“Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm.”

“Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”

“Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Meronyms: field, charge, emblem”

“The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]”

“Bespotted as with shields of red and black.”

“The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield.”

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