different between defender vs watchdog

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

watch +? dog

Noun

watchdog (plural watchdogs)

1. a guard dog
2. An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.

Derived terms

• watchdog timer

Translations

Verb

watchdog (third-person singular simple present watchdogs, present participle watchdogging, simple past and past participle watchdogged)

1. To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
2. (electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.

Translations

Anagrams

• dog watch, dogwatch