Word Finder - protecting

definition

To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

example

Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.

definition

(travel) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

I spend my life protecting you.

Alex took great pride in protecting her.

He was charged with protecting her.

Try not to act so happy about protecting us all from demons.

He was merely protecting his investment.

Quinn, who was our resident computer and electronic guru, was given information about protecting our security.

It was his turn to protect her the way she never bothered protecting him.

She wished she had a moment to talk to Gabriel, the deity charged with protecting the dead, to make sure she wasn't doing something wrong.

Aren.t you supposed to be protecting the weak, puny human?

In her mind, she'd probably be protecting him.

So various are the conditions of selfregulation in various animals, both in respect of their peculiar and several modes of assimilating different foods, and of protecting themselves against particular dangers from without, that, as we might have expected, the bloods taken from different species, or even perhaps from different individuals, are found to be so divergent that the healthy serum of one species may be, and often is, poisonous to another; not so much in respect of adventitious substances, as because the phases of physiological change in different species do not harmonize; each by its peculiar needs has been modified until, in their several conditions of life, they vary so much about the mean as to have become almost if not quite alien one to another.

There was a fine line between protecting and smothering, though.

I know you would stand beside me - maybe even in front of me with the intent of protecting me.

A couple of them were talking quietly, but she didn't hear them, instead unable to fathom that anyone would find her life worth protecting after her father hadn't.

Damian issued few clean-up orders, for there was no way to maintain the discretion his Guardians needed to mask their shadow operations protecting humanity.

Maybe she could make a silver lining here, protecting the innocent.

It didn't matter that he'd been sentenced to Hell by the very people he was now charged with protecting.

There was more that he wasn't saying, and she suspected he was protecting her from the truth.

You are authorized to kill any threats to the woman you're protecting.

It wasn't going to take much for her to put together who, especially with the ultra-secret assignments protecting Deidre.

He grieved her choice but also believe she got what she deserved for betraying the souls they were all charged with protecting.

It was true, and only Andre supported his petition to be recognized as one of the seven sons charged by their father with protecting humanity against the Dark One.

You haven't, yet, because protecting me—albeit poorly—is still your duty.

She wasn.t sure if she should thank him for protecting him or curse him for the kiss.

But, if he could get some use out of him before it came time to kill him, he might have a better chance of protecting Katie.

I.m sworn to protect Toby, and I.ve done my duty in protecting Sasha, who is also my brother, according to the Code and the oaths I swore to my father and the Council!

The young boy would be the only person Dean could think of who Cynthia would care enough to at least consider protecting.

We can't say if she planned on killing him with it or was just protecting herself but later she used it to cut his line.

Edith Shipton was protecting the one person she truly loved, her son Donnie.

His thoughts went to the injured woman he was charged with protecting.

He died because he was protecting me.

The bowler delivers his bowl with one foot on a mat or footer, made of india-rubber or cocoanut fibre, the size of which is also prescribed by rule as 24 by 16 in., though, with a view to protecting the green, Australasian clubs employ a much larger size, and require the bowler to keep both feet on the mat in the act of delivery.

In the course of a bloody insurrection in Catalonia, which ended in the bombardment of Barcelona, Ferdinand de Lesseps showed the most persistent bravery, rescuing from death, without distinction, the men belonging to the rival factions, and protecting and sending away not only the Frenchmen who were in danger, but foreigners of all nationalities.

Cromwell, who was as a rule especially scrupulous in protecting non-combatants from violence, justified his severity in this case by the cruelties perpetrated by the Irish in the rebellion of 1641, and as being necessary on military and political grounds in that it "would tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which were the satisfactory grounds of such actions which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret."

They perform a useful function in protecting their clients from the cruel usury which prevails, especially in the south.

Shortly afterwards his term of office was brought to a close by the failure of an attempt to secure for Italy a coaling station at Sanmen and a sphere of influence in China; but his policy of active participation in Chinese affairs was continued in a modified form by his successor, the Marquis Visconti Venosta, who, entering the reconstructed Pelloux cabinet in May 1899, retained the portfolio of foreign affairs in the ensuing Saracco administration, and secured the despatch of an Italian expedition, 2000 strong, to aid in repressing the Chinese outbreak and in protecting Italian interests in the Far East (July 1900).

Now for a short time the document leaves the great questions at issue between the king and the barons, and two chapters are devoted to protecting the people generally against the exactions of the Jews.

Such are the " guard-polyps " (machopolyps) of Plumularidae, which are often regarded as individuals of the nature of dactylozoids, but from a study of the mode of budding in this hydroid family Driesch concluded that the guard-polyps were not true polyp-individuals, although each is enclosed in a small protecting cup of the perisarc, known as a nematophore.

The spadix forms a gelatinous cyst, the so-called acrocyst (ac), external to the gonotheca (gth), enclosing and protecting the embryos.

In Microhydra no such protecting case is formed.

These adaptations tend to lessen the amount of transpiration by protecting the stomata from the movements of the air.

Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.

The line of fortresses protecting Austria from Italy lies in some places well back from the political boundary, but just inside the linguistic frontier, so as to separate the German and Italian races occupying Austrian territory.

Hills nearly enclose the city, protecting it from the ocean fogs.

As another means of opposing Western influence in south-eastern Europe, Prince Lobanov inclined to the policy of protecting rather than weakening the Ottoman empire.

From the early days of railways parliament has also been careful to provide for the safety of the public by inserting in the general or special acts definite conditions, and by laying upon the Board of Trade the duty of protecting the public using a railway.

The stipules of the leaves act as protecting scale-leaves in the winter-bud and fall when the bud opens in spring.

It could be carried out where the infected persons are few, by isolating and protecting them, but not where many are infected, as in native villages.

Grabusa, long regarded as an impregnable fortress, was surrendered in 1692, Suda (where the flags of Turkey and the four protecting powers are now hoisted) and Spinalonga in 1715.

According to the autonomous constitution of 1899 the supreme power was vested in Prince George of Greece, acting as high commissioner of the protecting powers.