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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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conductor
English
Alternative forms
- conductour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?kt?/
Noun
conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)
- One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
- (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
- A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers
- (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
- (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
- (architecture) A leader.
Antonyms
- non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)
Derived terms
- conductor rail
- lightning conductor
Related terms
- conduct
- semiconductor, dielectric
Translations
See also
- ticket inspector
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conduct?rem (“contractor, employer”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.duk?to/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to?/
Adjective
conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)
- driving
- conducting
Noun
conductor m (plural conductors)
- driver
- (physics) conductor
Related terms
- conduir
Latin
Etymology
From cond?c? (“I lead”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d??kt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d?ukt??r]
Noun
conductor m (genitive conduct?ris, feminine conductr?x); third declension
- employer, entrepreneur
- contractor
- (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- Obsolete form of condutor.
Romanian
Etymology
From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.
Noun
conductor n (plural conductori)
- conductor
- driver
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”). Cognate with English conductor.
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- driver, motorist
- conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
- (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)
Derived terms
Related terms
- conducir
See also
- chófer
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