different between defender vs picket

English

Alternative forms

• defendor, defendour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

defender (plural defenders)

1. someone who defends people or property
2. (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
3. a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
4. (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
5. (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action

Translations

Anagrams

• fendered, redefend

Interlingua

Verb

defender

1. to defend

Conjugation

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.

Verb

defender (Latin spelling)

1. to prohibit

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/

Verb

defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)

1. to defend (repel an attack)

   Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger

2. to defend (represent as a legal professional)
3. (rhetoric) to defend
4. to support (to back a cause, party etc.)

   Synonym: ser a favor de

5. (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
6. (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
7. (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
8. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
10. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
11. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]

Verb

defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)

1. to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))

   Synonym: proteger

2. to stand up for, to stick up for
3. to uphold

4. to prohibit

   Synonym: prohibir

5. to claim
6. (reflexive) to fight back
7. (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
8. (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
9. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
10. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by

Conjugation

Derived terms

• autodefenderse

Related terms

Further reading

• “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?p?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t
• Hyphenation: pick?et

Noun

picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)

1. A stake driven into the ground.

2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:

     So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.

5. (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
7. (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.

Derived terms

• picket line
• picket pin
• picket rope

Translations

Verb

picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)

1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

   to picket a horse

4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Derived terms

• picketing (noun)
• unpicketed

German

Pronunciation

Verb

picket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of picken