(n.) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.
(n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
(n.) To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
(n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.
(v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.
(v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.
(v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.
(v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.
(v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss
(v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.
(v. t.) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.
(v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.
(v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.
(v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.
(v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.
(v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.
(v. t.) A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.
(v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.
(v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.
(v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(2) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(3) DNA-samples from HSV-infected and uninfected Vero cells have been examined concurrently to provide standard "HSV-positive" and "HSV-negative" samples, the latter guarding also against false positives caused by cross-contamination.
(4) Merseyrail plans to operate trains without guards from 2020, although it has promised to redeploy staff.
(5) Sensitizing drugs must be strictly avoided to prevent such recurrences: their presence in drug mixtures must be guarded against.
(6) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(7) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(8) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
(9) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(10) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(11) Sample work-up consisted of addition of internal standard, filtration, then direct injection of the plasma sample onto an internal surface reversed-phase (ISRP) guard column where the dopamine agonist and internal standard were separated from plasma proteins.
(12) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(13) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(14) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
(15) On Tuesday, Romney had one event, a speech to the National Guard Association convention in Reno, Nev. And on the day before that, another single rally, in Mansfield, Ohio.
(16) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(17) Even when he’s going through the motions of politeness, he rarely lets his guard down.
(18) Three G4S guards were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
(19) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(20) Typically, a local authority or someone with a large commercial property would pay six figures annually for security guards, CCTV, gates and other physical security.
Nasal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the nose.
(a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
(n.) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
(n.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
(n.) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
(n.) One of the nasal bones.
(n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(2) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(4) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(5) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(6) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(7) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(8) In this study we investigated the recovery or regenerative process of nasal mucosa in rabbits after mechanical injury on the basis of ultrastructural as well as functional observations.
(9) The frequency of previous nasal diseases and symptoms was analyzed by histologic type of cancer.
(10) We present the results of giving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) via a single nasal catheter to 20 preterm infants.
(11) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(12) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(13) The characteristic features of the nasal mucosa obtained here are as follows: 1) The cross-section profiles of the cilium were round and smooth.
(14) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(15) One child (case 1) exhibited nasal regurgitation during feeding.
(16) Many times the nasal airway is disregarded as the source of airway difficulty if small catheters can be passed.
(17) Nasal epithelial dysplasia is morphologically similar to dysplasia in other organs where the precancerous state of this lesion has been proved.
(18) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(19) In patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), values in the donor lung did not differ from those in non-CF transplanted patients up to one year following transplantation, although nasal PD in the host remained elevated.
(20) The RSV EIA was also used to test 137 nasal swabs obtained from cases of bovine respiratory disease.