shield
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kalkan.
2. koruma.
3. zırh.
4. kaplamak.
5. korumak; siper etmek: He shielded his eyes with his hand. Elini gözlerine siper etti.
6. siper.
7. korumak.
8. kalkan olmak.
9. perdelemek.
10. ARMA: Günlük üniformaya takılan madeni plaka. Günlük şapkaya takılan arma gibi.
Sahne Örnekleri :
Tanımlar :
1. A frame or rounded plate made of wood, metal, hide, or leather, carried by warriors on the arm or in the hand, as a defense, from remote antiquity until the perfection of firearms rendered it more an encumbrance than a safeguard, and by savage peoples to the present day.
2. anything that protects or is used as a protection.
3. A fender-plate attached to the share of a corn-plow to prevent clods from rolling on to the young plants.
4. in zoology:
5. A protective or defensive plate, buckler, or cuirass, of some determinate size, shape, or position; a scute, scutum, or scutellum; a lorica; a carapace: as, the shields or bucklers of a ganoid fish; the shields of a turtle, an armadillo, etc. see cuts under carapace, leaf-roller, scale, armadillo, and coluber.
6. some part, place, or mark likened to a shield; a thyroid formation. see cut under larynx.
7. in dressmaking, a piece or strip of some repellent fabric used to protect a dress from mud, perspiration, etc.: as, a skirt-shield; an arm-shield.
8. figuratively, a shelter, protection, or defense; a bulwark.
9. in botany, any flat, buckler-like body that is fixed by a stalk or pedicel from some part of the under surface, as the apothecium in certain lichens. (see apothecium.)
10. in heraldry:
11. the shield-shaped escutcheon used for all displays of arms, except when borne by women and sometimes by clergymen. see escutcheon and lozenge.
12. A bearing representing a knightly shield.
13. A french crown (in french, écu), so called from its having on one side the figure of a shield.
14. the semi-transparent skin of the sides of a boar-pig, which is of considerable thickness, affording shield-like protection against the attacks of an adversary: apparently used formerly to furnish a shield for burlesque or mimic contests.
15. A breed of domestic pigeons, of which there are four varieties, black, red, blue, and silver.
16. more properly, a mantlet or wooden bulwark for crossbowmen and the like.
17. to protect, defend, or shelter from danger, calamity, distress, annoyance, or the like: as, to shield one from attack; to shield one from the sun; to shield a criminal.
18. to ward off.
19. to forfend; forbid; avert.
20. to act or serve as a shield; be a shelter or protection.
21.
22. A guard placed over or in front of rapidly moving machinery, especially over cutters such as saws and planes, to protect the workmen from accidents.
23. A guard placed around belting where it passes through a floor, or around gears to prevent clothing of workmen or passers-by from becoming entangled
24. A covering over bearings and shafts of grinding machinery to keep grit and dust from working into the contact-surfaces.
25. A guard placed on an exposed shaft, and turning loosely with it, to prevent injury from accidental contact with the revolving mass.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a protective covering or structure
2. hold back a thought or feeling about
3. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
4. armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
5. protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
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