Definitions for shield

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Spelling: [sheeld]

IPA: /ʃild/

Shield is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in shield (dehils).

Definitions for shield

noun

1. a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
2. a similar device, often of lightweight plastic, used by riot police to protect themselves from rocks and other thrown objects.
3. something shaped like a shield, variously round, octagonal, triangular, or somewhat heart-shaped.
4. a person or thing that protects.
5. a police officer's, detective's, or sheriff's badge.
6. Ordnance. a steel screen attached to a gun to protect its crew, mechanism, etc.
7. Mining. a movable framework for protecting a miner from cave-ins, etc.
8. Electricity. a covering, usually made of metal, placed around an electric device or circuit in order to reduce the effects of external electric and magnetic fields.
9. Zoology. a protective plate or the like on the body of an animal, as a scute, enlarged scale, etc.
10. dress shield.
11. Heraldry. an escutcheon, especially one broad at the top and pointed at the bottom, for displaying armorial bearings.
12. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Scutum.
13. Also called continental shield. Geology. a vast area of ancient crustal rocks which, together with a platform, constitutes a craton.
14. a protective barrier against nuclear radiation, especially a lead or concrete structure around a reactor.

verb (used with object)

1. to protect (someone or something) with or as if with a shield.
2. to serve as a protection for.
3. to hide or conceal; protect by hiding.
4. Obsolete. to avert; forbid.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or serve as a shield.

Origin of shield

before 900; (noun) Middle English shelde, Old English sceld; cognate with Dutch, German Schild, Gothic skildus; (v.) Middle English shelden, Old English sceldan, scildan, derivative of the no

Examples for shield

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In the winter, they can shield drivers from the annoyance of having to wipe snow and ice off their windshields.

He tended to shield himself from disappointment by expecting the worst—of people and of his country.

They shield him, too; nobody who wants to reach their hearts must blame him.

He remains busy trying to penetrate the shield with something much smarter.

I believe it is often the best wisdom to be blind and let God be our eyes as well as our shield.

You acted like a hero in trying to shield Alan Porter, and I like men of that stamp.

Could he be asked to shield and protect her, or what would become of her?

Liu was also well aware of the risks that came with the shield.

Still there was that in them which respected the mother's grief; they tried to shield her.