different between cushion vs protect
cushion
English
Etymology
From Middle English cusshon, cuschen, quesshon, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *cox?nus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulv?nus (“pillow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- An engraver's pad.
- (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
- (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.
- 2013, Stijn Claessens, Kirsten Forbes, International Financial Contagion (page 85)
- If one of the banks has a significant enough cushion of capital and a strong enough balance sheet, then it would not experience a bank run, and the domino effect in panel A would not have occurred.
- 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced (page 826)
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Descendants
Translations
See also
- pillow
- squab
Verb
cushion (third-person singular simple present cushions, present participle cushioning, simple past and past participle cushioned)
- To furnish with cushions.
- to cushion a sofa
- To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
- 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
- To absorb or deaden the impact of.
- to cushion a blow
- 1903, Edward Porritt, "Poynings' Law", The Unreformed House of Commons Vol.II p.429 (CUP):
- the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant
- To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Translations
References
cushion From the web:
- what cushions the bones in a joint
- what cushions the brain inside the skull
- what cushions your joints
- what cushions between the vertebrae
- what cushions joints
- what cushions the vertebrae
- what cushions bones
- what cushions go with beige sofa
protect
English
Etymology
Attested in English since 1530, from Latin pr?t?ctus (“covered, protected”), past participle of pr?tegere (“to cover the front, protect”) from pr?, pr?- (“before, in front of”) +? tegere (“to cover”), see tegument. Displaced native Middle English shelden, from Old English s?ildan (”to protect,” literally ”to shield”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???t?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
protect (third-person singular simple present protects, present participle protecting, simple past and past participle protected)
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
- (travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
Synonyms
- beshield
- See also Thesaurus:defend
Derived terms
- protection
Translations
protect From the web:
- what protects the spinal cord
- what protects the brain
- what protects the cell
- what protects earth from solar winds
- what protects dna
- what protects the nucleus
- what protects the heart
- what protects us from the sun
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