(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.
Vanguard
Definition:
(n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Example Sentences:
(1) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(2) The trust drew up a contract with Vanguard to treat 400 patients.
(3) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
(4) For example, Vanguard is majority owned by MML Capital.
(5) The spokesman said Scottish Power was at the vanguard of developing wind power - it has 12 windfarms in the UK - and other renewable sources of power, but added: "At the same time, we are going to need coal and gas to support that."
(6) So too were Shia militias, which have often been at the vanguard of the fight against Isis elsewhere in the country, especially in Diyala province, between Baghdad and Kirkuk.
(7) Was it patient waiting lists or patient care at the forefront of their minds when the senior Musgrove management team penned the contract with Vanguard?” Laurence Vick, a lawyer representing some of the patients affected, said many concerns remained.
(8) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
(9) Indeed, far from being irrelevant, school nurses are the vanguard in the fight against drug use, teen pregnancy and child abuse.
(10) Using a commercially available analyzer (Vanguard XR70) we confirmed intra- and interobserver reproducibilities in 34 narrowings in 9 patients.
(11) Cameron said that the vanguard communities, each to be given a team of civil servants, will be the "training grounds" of the 'big society'.
(12) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.
(13) Hezbollah is also believed to be at the vanguard of an offensive in the Qalamoun mountains just east of the Syrian border, which looms as a strategic battleground in the overall fight for control of the country.
(14) AstraZeneca's second-largest shareholder, Vanguard, is a "passive" investor that holds a 4.74% stake through index funds that it manages.
(15) Since that time, women from the higher social groups have comprised the vanguard of the movement back to breastfeeding.
(16) What feels different now is that who’s at the forefront of the conversation is no longer the old vanguard of primarily cisgender, heterosexual black men,” Cullors told me.
(17) Small quantities of glioma associated antibodies probably circulate within the patient's serum but there is definite evidence of depression of the cell-mediated vanguard of the immune response.
(18) Photograph: Reuters She is principally a reporter for Vanguard, an international current affairs show, and covered stories in countries including Mexico, Vietnam and China.
(19) The lives of the Vanguard submarines will be prolonged to fill the gap.
(20) A group can act as political vanguard and proceed in a more expeditious way to reach new common objectives, such as defence, economic security, combating inequalities and support to the young people.” Gozi added that it would be easier for the EU to pursue such reforms following Britain’s decision to leave.