Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GUARD

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Definitions of GUARD

1. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
2. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
3. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
4. A watchchain.
5. Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
6. (transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
7. (transitive) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
8. (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
9. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
10. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
11. (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
12. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
13. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
14. (American football) 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.
15. (martial arts) A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
16. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
17. (rail) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
18. (ambitransitive) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
19. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
20. (aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
21. A surname.
22. (transitive) To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
23. (transitive) To fasten by binding; to gird.

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Examples of Using GUARD in a Sentence

• He served in both world wars, as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.
• 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
• The city is built on an informal archipelago in San Francisco Bay, consisting of Alameda Island, Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island, along with other smaller islands.
• The "mount" of Megiddo in northern Israel is not actually a mountain, but a tell (a mound or hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding at the same spot) on which ancient forts were built to guard the Via Maris, an ancient trade route linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
• Barko/Bapor ng Republika ng Pilipinas (ship/steamship of the Republic of the Philippines), Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Navy, and other government-owned ship name prefix.
• These are the National Army ((including Ground Forces, and Air Force), the National Gendarmerie), the National Police, the National and Nomadic Guard (GNNT) and the Judicial Police.
• In addition, there is a presidential force called the Republican Guard, but it and the Congolese National Police (PNC) are not part of the Armed Forces.
• 861 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
• The Army's Distinguished Service Medal is equivalent to the Naval Service's Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Air and Space Forces' Distinguished Service Medal, and the Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal.
• The armed forces includes a well-trained, well-equipped 1,800-member guard that provides security for the President of Gabon.
• The Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces is the president of Ghana, who is also the supreme military commander of the Border Guard Unit (BGU).
• Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches – army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard – whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.
• Like the Genesis flood narrative, the Genesis creation narrative and the account of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the tree of life.
• The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type.
• 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.
• 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
• The National Guard, Civil Defense, Border Service and the State Security Service serve as militarized affiliates of the armed forces.
• In wartime, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (which is under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior in peacetime) becomes part of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
• On 2 November 1990, prior to the formation of the state of Moldova, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldovan SSR ordered creation of the Republican Guard (Romanian: Garda Republicană) as a militarized government agency.
• Auxiliary services include the Myanmar Police Force, the Border Guard Forces, the Myanmar Coast Guard, and the People's Militia Units.
• SS Major General Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard "Berlin".
• The long years of strife between the liberal and conservative political factions and the existence of private armies led the United States to sponsor the National Guard as an apolitical institution to assume all military and police functions in Nicaragua.
• 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
• It is the world's sixth-largest military measured by active military personnel and consist of three formally uniformed services—the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, which are backed by several paramilitary forces such as the National Guard and the Civil Armed Forces.
• Locally, Puerto Rico has its own National Guard, the Puerto Rico National Guard, and its own state defense force, the Puerto Rico State Guard, which, by local law, is under the authority of the Puerto Rico National Guard.

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