shield

noun

1. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

   “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.”

2. (figuratively)Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

   “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.”

3. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
4. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

   “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.”

5. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

   “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.”

6. 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.

   “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[…]”

7. (Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete)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.
8. 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.

   “Bespotted as with shields of red and black.”

9. (obsolete)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.
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.
11. (colloquial)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.

    “The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield.”

12. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
13. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
14. (Scotland, euphemistic, figuratively, obsolete)A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
15. (British, English)Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To protect, to defend.

   “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.”

2. (UK, intransitive)To shelter; to protect oneself.

   “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.”

3. To protect from the influence of.

name

1. A surname.