Definitions for Shields

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Shields shield

Spelling: [sheeld]

IPA: /ʃild/

Shields is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in Shields (dehilss).

Definitions for Shields

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 Shields

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 Shields

She saw the war-caps, shields, and war-coats, and her heart sank.

From the shields, there is not one of these vessels which hath not knight or baron aboard.

Now paste one of these shields in the centre of your yellow window-pane.

By 15, shields was saying: “Nothing comes between me and my Calvins” in an advert for Calvin Klein underwear.

The Iroquois had shields of hide stretched on hoop for defensive armor.

You will now, on opening them, have two shields, as in Fig. 2.

Riot police eventually converged from the flanks, hundreds at first, then hundreds more, with shields and batons.

Like any good suspense novelist, shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand.

shields was photographed nude when she was 10, the photograph later used in an artwork by Richard Prince.

The cap devices on thousands of identical hats glinted in the late morning sun along with the shields worn by each of the cops.