shield meaning
EN[ʃiːld] [-iːld]US
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.
- NounPLshields
- Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
- Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
- Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
- Something shaped like a shield, usually an inverted triangle with slightly curved lower sides.
- 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.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
- VerbSGshieldsPRshieldingPT, PPshielded
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Is that a see-through grid by Alan Shields next to the jacquardlike abstraction by Jay Heikes?
- 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.
- Lying on a sofa, her skin dead-white, eyes shut, and face shielded by a raised arm, she looks exhausted and conspicuously unseductive.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of shield in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary