Word: shield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”). Compare Breton skoed (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Scottish Gaelic sgiath (“shield”), Latin scūtum (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Belarusian шчыт (ščyt, “shield”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian щит (ščyt, “shield”), Czech and Slovak štít (“shield”), Macedonian штит (štit, “shield”), Polish szczyt (“shield”), Serbo-Croatian штит, štit, ščit (“shield”), Slovene ščit (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːld/, /ˈʃɪj(ə)ld/, /ˈʃild/, /ˈʃiːʊd/, [ˈʃɪi̯ʊd] 1. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. Example: Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Example: The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas. 2. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. Labels: figuratively Example: Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Example: Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field. 3. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. 4. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. 5. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. 6. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. 7. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. Example: The earth was excavated from the sunken cylinder; the shield was inserted into it, and the tunnelling began, the target being Wapping, on the opposite bank. The shield was an iron honeycomb containing thirty-six cells within which men dug the wall of mud before them. 8. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. Example: Kinetic barriers, colloquially called "shields", provide protection against most mass accelerator weapons. Whether on a starship or a soldier's suit of armor, the basic principle remains the same. Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair. 9. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. Example: Meronyms: field, charge, emblem Example: The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…] 10. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. Labels: Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete 11. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. Example: Bespotted as with shields of red and black. 12. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. Labels: obsolete 13. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. 14. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. Labels: colloquial Example: The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield. 15. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock. 16. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock. 17. A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. Labels: Scotland, euphemistic, figuratively, obsolete 18. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision Labels: British, English 19. A circuit board that can connect to an Arduino microcontroller and extend its capabilities. Example: Arduino does many interesting things on its own, but it can't do everything. Fortunately, thanks to the open design of Arduino, building add-on boards to extend what Arduino can do is pretty easy. ¶ These boards are called "shields," because they usually fit over the top of Arduino like a protecting shield. ¶ Shields contain their own circuitry, components, and sometimes processing chips that can augment Arduino's capabilities. There are shields that enable Arduino to read GPS signals, drive robot motors, take pictures, connect to Bluetooth devices, control electroluminescent wire...as of this writing, there are more than 300 shields.