Word Finder - guard

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A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

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The prison guard unlocked the door of the cell.   After completing the repairs, he replaced the sump guard.

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A garda; a police officer.

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A squad responsible for protecting something.

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The president inspected the guard of honour.

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The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.

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A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

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The motorcycle mechanic removed the damaged chain guard.

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A watchchain.

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A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

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A state of caution; posture of defence.

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Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.

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A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.

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The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.

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Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.

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A player playing a position named guard.

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An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.

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A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.

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To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

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To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

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Guard the prisoner.

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To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

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Careful people guard against mistakes.

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To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

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To fasten by binding; to gird.

I heard you were a guard at Cañon City.

I cannot guard you if you hide from me.

A 24-hour guard wasn't possible and arresting him would only make him more dangerous.

After all, he wasn't a guard dog.

A man was placed on guard at the door to prevent interruption.

She worked as a guard at Cañon City and then as a cop up in Grand Junction.

No woman had gotten through his guard ever.

I was checking out a point guard who proved to be too short.

The same day the station received word from the FBI the gun Dean recovered at Willoughby's had been stolen from a security guard in Connecticut the prior March.

He hastily dialed Cynthia's mother's number, as Fred stood guard at the slightly opened door.

Their brief search halted when a security guard swore no one had passed his way and too many corridors and stairways went in other directions, making further search difficult.

I'll post a guard.

Two more closed in on her, but she danced away, luring one into a trap and throwing the second off guard long enough to escape his outstretched grasp.

The guard beside Allin nearly spat the words.

His features paled and he bounded to his feet while the guard still spoke and motioned to two men at his right.

In 312 the Praetorian Guard was suppressed by Constantine.

In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian.

Zhilinski, a Pole brought up in Paris, was rich, and passionately fond of the French, and almost every day of the stay at Tilsit, French officers of the Guard and from French headquarters were dining and lunching with him and Boris.

He rode across one of the swaying pontoon bridges to the farther side, turned sharply to the left, and galloped in the direction of Kovno, preceded by enraptured, mounted chasseurs of the Guard who, breathless with delight, galloped ahead to clear a path for him through the troops.

That's it for tidbits, but don't let down your guard.

Then again, if she owed any sort of debt to Darkyn, Gabriel wasn't about to be caught off guard.

He was trapped, useless, unable to help the woman he was assigned to guard.

In the British army the first battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) is directly descended from the "Cameronian guard," which, composed of Cameronians, was embodied by the convention parliament in 1689, and was afterwards employed to restore order in the Highlands.

The guest of honor was an aide-de-camp of Napoleon's, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a page of Napoleon's, a young lad of an old aristocratic French family.

It.d been too long since he.d felt such strong emotion, and it caught him off guard.

He joined Lean and Allin as they dined, listening with forced indifference as they told him that Rissa had left alone with her guard at dusk.

They would fight for her until their deaths, each of them as brave as the members of her guard.

A quick movement caught his attention as a guard darted from the entrance to Sirian.

Taran snagged the arm of a guard jogging by.

Two disheveled members of her guard were with her in a dark, blurry cage.

The man before her gripped her shoulders again and shook her, and the fuzzy faces of the men from her guard came into focus.

She gazed around, realizing that she and the two members of her guard occupied a cage filled with the bloated corpses of a half dozen other men, what was left of her guard.

Her remaining guard took her arms and turned her away from the scene.

It was her remaining guard, Ledden, whose watchful gaze had rarely left the enemy's men outside the door.

Post a guard near it.

My guard will attend me into the city.

The smith laments that all his property is of no value now that his watchman is slain, whereupon the young hero offers to guard his domains until a whelp of the hound's has grown.

As a rule terrestrial spiders guard the cocoon in the permanent burrow, as in the trap-door spiders, or in the silken retreat which acts as a temporary nursery, as in the Salticidae.

It was Luynes who, with Vitry, captain of the guard, arranged the plot that ended in Concini's assassination (1617) and secured all the latter's possessions in Italy and France.

But in 1807 he enlisted in the guard.

About this period he was charged with the defence of a member of the national guard of Brives, which was accused of provoking disorders in the department of La Correze.

That of Renaissance, Rinascimento, or Renascence is sufficient for the purpose, though we have to guard against the tyranny of what is after all a metaphor.

He later became a quartermaster in the Coast Guard Service.

The army and guard are well equipped with modern arms. Finance.

He nodded curtly at the guard and closed the door, not hearing her approach.

A guard's exclamation drew her fatigued gaze from its place resting on the ground.

The guard nodded at Hilden's brief address and trotted away.

Tell him the southern wall needs more men!" she ordered the guard to her left before shouting at the man on her right, "Find the wall's warlord!"

The second guard on horseback appeared from a street to her right.

He'd hoped she had and left her alone, after posting her favorite guard - -Hilden - -at her door.