noun
definition
Something that protects.
definition
A condom.
adjective
definition
Serving, intended or wishing to protect
example
Mother bears are famously protective of their cubs.
Examples of protective in a Sentence
He's really protective of the people he cares about.
He's very protective of his family.
When the protective headgear was removed, Dean saw why.
Jonny was pissed, his stance like Brandon's when the cousin was on protective mode when guys at the mall flirted with his sister.
Being the only child, she was probably over protective of him.
He was sweet and thoughtful, protective and an ardent lover.
He took up a protective stance within direct sight of them, so still, he seemed like a statue.
He almost sounded … protective of his mate.
In cushion plants the leaves are very small, very close together, and the low habit is protective against winds.
It was much easier to sleep with his protective arm around her waist.
In spite of the protective gear worn, the challenge definitely excluded the weak of heart, and, in Dean's estimation, the strong of brain.
Well, I'm sure Fred wasn't a hooker but I'm content to accept him on a present day basis, regardless of why he's so protective of his past.
The fighters were armed as well as the army and the government's special protective services and in many cases, with the same equipment.
He's a little over protective at times, but he means well.
She couldn't have found a more attentive or protective husband.
As always, he was protective and decisive.
Protective anger stirred at his dismissive tone.
Protective of his sole treasure, he had never entrusted anyone else with guarding it.
You're somewhat protective of women, even if you refuse to form attachments, and you're aggressive with men.
On the one hand the retributive principle itself has been very largely superseded by the protective and the reformative; on the other punishments involving bodily pain have become objectionable to the general sense of society.
The rise of the industry has been favored by protective tariffs and by a system of excise which allows a considerable premium to manufacturers.
In all green plants which have a special protective epidermis, the cortex of the shoot has to perform the primitive fundamental function of carbon assimilation.
He was protective of you before he even met you.
When she opened them, she lay on her side with her back to her protective wave.
The coriaceous leaves of sclerophyllous plants also, to some extent, are similarly protective.
The protective instinct was responsible for much of this interference with the natural impulse of men of various creeds towards mutual esteem and forbearance.
When, however, the tariff bill of 1828, which was still more protective, came up for discussion, Webster had ceased to oppose protection; but he did not attempt to argue in favour of it.
Marine; generally carnivorous, and brightly coloured, affording many instances of protective resemblance.
There alone we have proof that the art of writing was commonly practised, and there tribute-tallies suggest an imperial organization; there the arts of painting and sculpture in stone were most highly developed; there the royal residences, which had never been violently destroyed, though remodelled, continued unfortified; whereas on the Greek mainland they required strong protective works.
A gnat pupa swims through the water by powerful strokes of its abdomen, while the caddis-fly pupa, in preparation for its final ecdysis, bites its way out of its subaqueous protective case and rises through the water, so that the fly may emerge into the air.
The theory of the government, a theory expressed throughout the whole commercial career of the republic, the theory which made Venice a rigidly protective state, was that the Levant trade belonged solely to Venice and her citizens.
Similar instances of protective coloration could be cited without end.
Hence it is probable that no factor has had a greater influence than these wasps in moulding the protective instincts and habits of spiders.
The exact extent, however, to which each particular class of enemy has affected the protective habits and attributes of spiders is by no means always evident; and it is impossible to discuss the question in detail within the limits of a short article.
In 1829 the hand of its leaders was shown, when, in addition to its antagonism to the Masons, it became a champion of internal improvements and of the protective tariff.
It forms part of the long line of islands which are interposed as a protective barrier between the Asiatic coast and the outer Pacific, and is the cause of the immunity from typhoons enjoyed by the ports of China from Amoy to the Yellow Sea.
A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff League.
Recourse was then had to protective legislation.
Only in very recent years have oysters, though plentiful, become of competitive importance in the national market; they are greatly favoured by state protective legislation.
Many improvements and extra protective works were carried out after 1816, and it was estimated that the total cost of this great engineering undertaking from 1807 to 1902 amounted to about X200,000, the date for the completion of the work being 1911.
Zoologists are familiar with many instances (fishes, crustaceans) in which the protective walls of a water-breathing organ or gill-apparatus become converted into an air-breathing organ or lung, but there is no other case known of the conversion of gill processes themselves into air-breathing plates.
Since the creation of the republic, extreme protective measures have caused the creation of a large number of cotton factories and other manufactures, but these are able to supply only a part of the consumption, and the importation of cotton and woollen fabrics, silks, readymade clothing, boots and shoes, &c., is large.
Although the protective tariffs thus imposed have resulted in a large increase in manufacturing industries, some of them have been antagonistic to the productive interests of the country, as in the case of weaving mills which use imported yarns.
He also appointed Hungarian consuls in foreign trade centres, and established a system of protective tariffs.
The imperishable Record invests the human race like a protective atmosphere, a new and yet a natural dispensation, giving to man, as compared with his animal ancestry, a new heaven and a new earth !
Though theoretically a free trader, he was largely instrumental in creating the Italian protective system.
It is to be noted, however, that these limits apply to the living matter itself, and many of the apparent exceptions are due to cases in which the living matter is enclosed in protective wrappings capable of resisting heat and cold.
In warm-blooded animals, such as birds and mammals, protective mechanisms for the regulation of temperature enable them to endure exposure to extreme heat or cold, but in such cases the actually living cells do not appreciably rise or fall in temperature.
Doubtless many of the smaller objects with which primitive man adorned himself, especially trophies from the animal world, were supposed to exert some beneficial or protective influence on the wearer, or to produce in him the distinguishing characteristics attributed to the object, or to the whole of which the object was a part.
The value of such protective inoculations is demonstrated in the treatment against small-pox (Jenner), cholera, plague (Haffkine) and typhoid (Wright and Semple).