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shield meaning

EN[ʃiːld] [-iːld]
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WShield
  • A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace, battle axe or similar weapon to the side of the shield-bearer.
  • Shields vary greatly in size, ranging from large panels that protect the user's entire body to small models (such as the buckler) that were intended for hand-to-hand-combat use.
  • In prehistory and during the era of the earliest civilizations, shields were made of wood, animal hide, woven reeds or wicker.
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    Definition of shield in English Dictionary

  • NounPLshields
    1. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
      1. Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
      2. Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
    2. Something shaped like a shield, usually an inverted triangle with slightly curved lower sides.
      1. Bespotted as with shields of red and black.
      2. The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield.
    3. (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
    4. VerbSGshieldsPRshieldingPT, PPshielded
      1. To protect, to defend.
        1. Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
      2. (electricity) to protect from the influence of.
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Moreover, the autozooids in the two small colonies available from Atlantis Seamount are disordered, and additional avicularia may grow on the frontal shield along the lateral interzooidal sutures.
          • Is that a see-through grid by Alan Shields next to the jacquardlike abstraction by Jay Heikes?
          • The platform grain shield and the windboard at rear of the binder deck will assist in making better bundles and prevent scattering of grain, if properly adjusted for long or short straw.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
          • Verbs
          Related Links:
          1. en shields
          2. en shielded
          3. en shielder
          4. en shielders
          5. en shieldman
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of shield for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "shield" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.
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