different between shepherd vs guard

English

Etymology

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English s??aphierde, a compound of s??ap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep +? herd (“herder”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p?d/
• Hyphenation: shep?herd

Noun

shepherd (plural shepherds, feminine shepherdess)

1. A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

2. (figuratively) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
   • 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms 23:1

     The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

3. (figuratively) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
4. (poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover.

Synonyms

• (one who tends sheep): pastor (now rare), sheepherder

Coordinate terms

• shepherdess

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Related terms

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Verb

shepherd (third-person singular simple present shepherds, present participle shepherding, simple past and past participle shepherded)

1. (transitive) To watch over; to guide.
2. (transitive, Australian rules football) To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

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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)

1. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

2. (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

3. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

4. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
5. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

6. A watchchain.
7. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
8. (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
9. Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
10. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
11. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
12. (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.
13. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
14. (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.

15. (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

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Verb

guard (third-person singular simple present guards, present participle guarding, simple past and past participle guarded)

1. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

   Guard the prisoner.

3. 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.

4. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
5. 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

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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