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guard
English
Alternative forms
- gard, garde, guarde (obsolete)
Etymology
For verb: From early Middle French or late Old French (circa 14th cent) guarder (“to keep, ward, guard, save, preserve, etc.”), from Frankish *ward?n, from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, protect”). Cognate with Old English weardian (whence English to ward). Compare French garder. See also English regard.
For noun: From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
guard (plural guards)
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
- 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer (?ISBN), page 139
- The Garda Regulations 1924 required a candidate for appointment as a guard to be able to produce satisfactory references as to his character
- 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer (?ISBN), page 139
- (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A watchchain.
- (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
- (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
- (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 141, [4]
- When an engineer wished to stop a swiftly moving train he had first to whistle to the guard requesting him to apply the hand-brake of the van, and then apply the hand-brake of the engine. Guards did not always hear.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 141, [4]
- (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
Synonyms
- (the part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand): quillon
- (part of machine blocking dangerous parts): protection
- (panel of a car enclosing a wheel): fender
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
guard (third-person singular simple present guards, present participle guarding, simple past and past participle guarded)
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- Guard the prisoner.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
- Careful people guard against mistakes.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- guard one's tongue
Translations
Further reading
- guard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- guard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- guard at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dagur, Darug, Dugar, Durga, draug, durag
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asylum
English
Etymology
From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sa?l?m/
Noun
asylum (plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Synonyms
- sanctuary
- shelter
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- refugee
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]
Noun
as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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