guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: guards
form: gard
form: garde
form: guarde
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The prison guard unlocked the door of the cell. After completing the repairs, he replaced the sump guard.
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
examples: text: The Garda Regulations 1924 required a candidate for appointment as a guard to be able to produce satisfactory references as to his character
ref: 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A garda; a police officer.
examples: text: The president inspected the guard of honour.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A squad responsible for protecting something.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A squad responsible for protecting something.
An elite military unit in Russia, the former Soviet Union and several post-Soviet countries.
examples: Holonym: hilt
synonyms: crossguard
quillon#Noun
related: word: grip#Noun
word: pommel#Noun
word: ricasso#Noun
glosses: The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
examples: text: The motorcycle mechanic removed the damaged chain guard.
glosses: A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
glosses: A watchchain.
examples: text: Another possible way is to go for a lower profile tyre (50 series). This effectively lowers the distance of the tyre wall away from the guard (not by much though and generally, the lower the profile, the wider the tyre so the tyre may stick out more as well).
ref: 1996 December 24, Pendles, “Tyres rubbing on guards”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
text: The reason I'm asking - Whenever I put some weight in the back of the car (say - a passenger or two) the rear tyres can sometimes hit the guards.
ref: 1999 November 23, Nathan, “Tyres rubbing on guards”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
text: I had just bought myself broken headlights, a f**ked up grill, a front guard bent into my front tyre, a leaky radiator and one *SLIGHTLY* bent chassis rail end. I turned the key on my stalled motor and she kicked over first go - if it weren't for the guard bent into the tyre, I could've driven home later if I wanted to.
ref: 2001 June 12, Confusement, “Position N or D”, in alt.autos (Usenet):
glosses: A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
glosses: A state of caution; posture of defence.
glosses: Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player playing a position named guard.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 141:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
Synonyms: sense: the part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand
word: quillon
sense: part of machine blocking dangerous parts
word: protection
sense: panel of a car enclosing a wheel
word: fender
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun guard
word: advance guard
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word: advance-guard
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word: after-guard
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word: afterguard
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word: armguard
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word: ass guard
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word: avant-guard
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word: axle guard
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word: blackguard
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word: bodyguard
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word: border guard
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word: bow guard
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word: bowguard
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word: bow-guard
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word: breath guard
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word: car guard
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word: castle-guard
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word: cattleguard
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word: cattle-guard
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word: cattle guard
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word: chain guard
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word: chainguard
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word: changing of the guard
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word: cheek guard
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word: chestguard
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word: chinguard
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word: chin guard
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word: Civil Guard
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word: coastguard
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word: coast guard
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word: color guard
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word: colour guard
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word: corporal's guard
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word: counterguard
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word: crossguard
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word: crossing guard
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word: drop one's guard
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word: enguard
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word: faceguard
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word: fingerguard
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word: fire guard
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word: fireguard
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word: footguard
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word: foreguard
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word: gate guard
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word: grand guard
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word: grand-guard
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word: grille guard
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word: guard against
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word: guard band
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word: guard book
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word: guard cell
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word: guard-dog
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word: guard dog
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word: guardess
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word: guardfish
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word: guardful
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word: guard hair
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word: guardhouse
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word: guardian
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word: guardless
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word: guardlike
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word: guardline
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word: guard lock
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word: guard mounting
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word: guard of honor
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word: guard of honour
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word: guard of vambrace
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word: guardpost
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word: guard post
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word: guard rail
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word: guardrail
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word: guardroom
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word: guard ship
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word: guardship
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word: guardsman
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word: guard station
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word: guard stone
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word: guardswoman
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word: gutter guard
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word: handguard
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word: hatguard
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word: have one's guard up
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word: header guard
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word: headguard
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word: Home Guard
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word: honor guard
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word: honour guard
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word: Horse Guard
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word: horse guard
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word: horse guard wasp
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word: include guard
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word: Iron Guard
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word: keep one's guard up
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word: keyguard
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word: knee guard
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word: landguard
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word: land guard
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word: let one's guard down
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word: lifeguard
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word: lower one's guard
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word: macro guard
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word: main guard
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word: merguard
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word: middle guard
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word: molly-guard
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word: money-guard
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word: mouth guard
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word: mouthguard
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word: mudguard
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word: neck guard
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word: neck-guard
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word: new guard
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word: nightguard
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word: nipple guard
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word: nonguard
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word: nose guard
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word: occlusal guard
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word: offensive guard
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word: off-guard
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word: off guard
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word: off one's guard
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word: old guard
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word: on guard
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word: on one's guard
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word: outguard
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word: pickguard
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word: pike-guard
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word: point guard
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word: pole-guard
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word: prisonguard
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word: prison guard
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word: rashguard
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word: rat guard
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word: rear guard
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word: rear-guard
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word: rearguard
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word: red guard
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word: retroguard
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word: run the guard
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word: safeguard
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word: safe-guard
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word: Scotchgard
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word: security guard
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word: shinguard
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word: shooting guard
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word: skirt guard
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word: sneezeguard
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word: sneeze guard
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word: snow guard
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word: spit guard
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word: splashguard
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word: stack-guard
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word: stand guard
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word: tard guard
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word: trigger guard
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word: underguard
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word: vanguard
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word: watchguard
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word: waterguard
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word: wire-guard
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word: without welt or guard
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word: wristguard
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word: yeoman of the guard