shield
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: shields
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shields
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shielding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shielded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shielded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
pos: noun
examples: Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame.
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.
My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm.
gloss: Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
gloss: Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: field, charge, emblem
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[…]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
euphemistic
obsolete
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Bespotted as with shields of red and black.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield.
gloss: A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
pos: noun
gloss: A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
pos: noun
gloss: A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
euphemistic
figuratively
obsolete
gloss: Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
pos: noun
tags: British
English
gloss: To protect, to defend.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.
Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
gloss: To shelter; to protect oneself.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
examples: The government has updated its guidance for people who are shielding taking into account that COVID-19 disease levels have decreased over the last few weeks.
gloss: To protect from the influence of.
pos: verb
Synonyms: bathroom
Derived words: armshield
bitch shield
brown-point shield skin longirostris
chin shield
dayshield
dress shield
enshield
eyeshield
face shield
faceshield
forceshield
Golden Shield
gumshield
gunshield
headshield
heat shield
human shield
ice and water shield
kite shield
lantern shield
living shield
lockshield
meat shield
medicine shield
nipple shield
ozone shield
panty shield
pop shield
radial shield
rape shield
riot shield
roundshield
sap shield
shieldable
shield aralia
shieldback
shield-backed bug
shield-bearer
shield beetle
shieldbill
shield bug
shielder
shield fern
shield law
shieldless
shieldlike
shieldmaid
shieldmaiden
shield-maiden
shieldmaker
shieldman
shield medick
Shield of David
Shield Row
shield shrimp
shield-skipper
shieldsman
shieldsmith
shieldtail
shield-toad
shield volcano
shield wall
shieldwise
shieldwright
silicon shield
striped shield bug
tailshield
tax shield
tower shield
unshield
water-shield
Whipple shield
white shield
wind shield
windshield
beshield
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وِقَايَه
roman: wiqāyah
lang: Arabic
word: وِقَاء
roman: wiqāʔ
lang: Bulgarian
word: защи́та
roman: zaštíta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 保護者 /保护者
roman: bǎohùzhě
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 防護物 /防护物
roman: fánghùwù
lang: Czech
word: štít
lang: Czech
word: kryt
lang: Danish
word: skjold
lang: Danish
word: -skjold
lang: Dutch
word: bescherming
lang: Dutch
word: scherm
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝirmilo
lang: Estonian
word: kaitse
lang: Finnish
word: suoja
lang: Finnish
word: kilpi
lang: French
word: bouclier
lang: Galician
word: escudo
lang: German
word: Schutz
lang: Greek
word: ασπίδα
roman: aspída
lang: Hebrew
word: מָגֵן
roman: magén
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁרְיוֹן
roman: shiryon
lang: Hungarian
word: védelem
lang: Icelandic
word: skjöldur
lang: Indonesian
word: pelindung
lang: Italian
word: scudo
lang: Italian
word: protezione
lang: Italian
word: rifugio
lang: Italian
word: riparo
lang: Italian
word: copertura
lang: Korean
word: 보호물
roman: bohomul
lang: Korean
word: 보호자
roman: bohoja
lang: Latin
word: integumentum
lang: Latvian
word: aizsargs
lang: Latvian
word: ekrāns
lang: Latvian
word: aizsegs
lang: Lithuanian
word: apsauga
lang: Macedonian
word: штит
roman: štit
lang: Middle English
word: scheld
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skjold
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skjerm
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vern
lang: Polish
word: osłona
lang: Portuguese
word: escudo
lang: Romanian
word: pavăză
lang: Russian
word: защи́та
roman: zaščíta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шти̑т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: štȋt
lang: Slovak
word: štít
lang: Slovak
word: kryt
lang: Slovene
word: ščitnik
lang: Spanish
word: escudo
lang: Swedish
word: sköld
lang: Swedish
word: skyddsplåt
lang: Swedish
word: skärma
lang: Tibetan
word: ཕུབ
roman: phub
lang: Tibetan
word: འགེབས་སྲུང་ཡོ་ཆས
roman: 'gebs srung yo chas
lang: Turkish
word: kalkan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سپر
roman: siper
lang: Welsh
word: aes