Word Finder - protects

definition

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

example

Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.

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(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.

Its words are poison but its magic protects my city.

The demon protects us, heals us.

The Hauraki Gulf, a great square inlet opening northward, is studded with islands of considerable elevation; Rangitoto, which protects the harbour, is a volcanic cone reaching nearly l000 ft.

Its great value to the English forester is as a "nurse" for other trees, for which its dense leafage and tapering form render it admirably fitted, as it protects, without overshading, the young saplings, and yields saleable stakes and small poles when cut out.

Sunscreens for plants protects them from ultraviolet and infrared radiation.

A breakwater three-quarters of a mile long protects the entrance to the harbour.

Another clause protects the property of rebels against confiscation.

According to the constitution of 1860 "the nation professes the apostolic Roman Catholic religion; the state protects it, and does not permit the public exercise of any other."

He also protects them for the first few days of their existence.

When not too thick callus protects the skin from further damage.

Promises a long and happy married life, protects a child from evil influences, and safeguards the teenager during the highly emotional period.

Our immune system protects us from disease, destroying invading microbes with a swarm of attacking cells.

Thus, high acid production by the parietal cells probably protects the corpus mucosa from initial colonization.

The cuticle contrasts strongly in its nature with the hypodermis it protects.

On the Fuglenaes or Birds' Cape, which protects the harbour on the north, there stands a column with an inscription in Norse and Latin, stating that Hammerfest was one of the stations of the XII.

There are no scales developed on any part of the body, but a series of hard and large scutes protects a greater or lesser portion of the sides.

He negotiates all treaties or alliances with foreign states, protects British subjects residing abroad, and demands satisfaction for any injuries they may sustain at the hands of foreigners.

Ice is a very poor conductor of heat and accordingly protects the surface of the water beneath from rapid cooling; hence new-formed pancake ice does not increase excessively in thickness in one winter, and even in the centre of the Arctic Basin the ice-covering only amounts to 6 or at most 9 ft.

The crucible is of metal and considerably larger than the ingot, the latter being surrounded by a mass of unreduced material which protects the crucible from the intense heat.

The concrete not only affords much of the strength to resist compression, but effectively protects the steel from corrosion.

A special enactment protects tenants against arbitrary treatment at the hands of landlords in respect of notice to quit and raising of rents.

They are usually much dreaded by country people, and although they are quite harmless to man, the large glands which are disposed very regularly on their smooth, shiny bodies, secrete a very active, milky poison which protects them from the attacks of many enemies.

The copious snowfall protects vegetation, supplies moisture, and contributes nitrogen to the soil.

Irrigation protects large tracts against famine, and has immensely increased the wheat output of the Punjab; the Irrigation Commission of 1903 recommended the addition of 62 million acres to the irrigated area of India, and that recommendation is being carried out at an annual cost of 12 millions sterling for twenty years, but at the end of that time the list of works that will return a lucrative interest on capital will be practically exhausted.

When the periscope is not in use, the prism is lowered and protects the upper lens in the body.

On the living animal the overhair keeps the fur filaments apart, prevents their tendency to felt, and protects them from injury - thus securing to the animal an immunity from cold and storm; while, as a matter of fact, this very overhair, though of an humbler name, is most generally the beauty and pride of the pelt, and marks its chief value with the furrier.

The Esk and Liddel being favourite fishing streams, Langholm is the headquarters of the association which protects the rights of anglers.

On that footing the foreign office grants passports to the holders of colonial certificates of naturalization, and protects them in all foreign countries but that of their origin; and the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, sec. 1, allows persons naturalized in British possessions to be owners of British ships.

The sodium as it is formed at the cathode at once dissolves in the mercury which protects it against the action of the water as long as the percentage of sodium in the mercury does not exceed, say, 0.02%.

Thus the declaration of Paris, 1856 (to which, however, the United States, Venezuela and Bolivia have not yet formally acceded), prohibits the use of privateers and protects the commerce of neutrals; the Geneva conventions, 1864 and 1906, give protection to the wounded and to those in attendance upon them; the St Petersburg declaration, 1868, prohibits the employment of explosive bullets weighing less than 400 grammes; and the three Hague declarations of 1899 prohibit respectively (I) the launching of projectiles from balloons, (2) the use of projectiles for spreading harmful gases, and (3) the use of expanding bullets.

A breakwater protects its mouth; it has a lighthouse, and is defended by a fort on Signal Hill.

Inoculation protects against attack, and greatly modifies the illness when it fails to protect.

The vertical position protects the structure from the intense sunlight, as with their edges towards the sky and earth they do not intercept light so fully as ordinary horizontally placed leaves.

In its first meaning it protects and defends society from the dissidents, those who decline to be bound by the general standard of conduct accepted by the larger number of the law-abiding, and in this sense it is chiefly concerned with the prevention and pursuit of crime.

To Edward Jenner we owe the discovery that vaccination protects against smallpox, and it is now generally acknowledged that smallpox and vaccine are ' Quoted by Weir Mitchell, "Researches on the Venom of the Rattlesnake," Smithsonian Contributions (1860), p. 97.

In certain states of wind and sea it is turned almost into an island, and a sea-wall protects the road to Saffi.

A lower wall of wider circuit protects the luxuriant gardens in the outskirts.

At the extremity of Hymettus, where it projects into the Saronic Gulf, was the promontory of Zoster ("the Girdle"), which was so called because it girdles and protects the neighbouring harbour; but in consequence of the name, a legend was attached to it, to the effect that Latona had loosed her girdle there.

The act of Queen Anne (1712), which protects the "Episcopal Communion," marks its virtual incorporation as a distinct society.

There is a moat (Castle Dyke) on the landward side, and a wall with towers also protects the castle in this direction.

No other protection is needed beyond a bee-veil of fine black net, which slipped over a wide-brimmed straw hat protects the face from stings when working among bees; as experience is gained the veil is not always used.

The spathe protects the flowers in their young state, and often falls off after they are developed, or hangs down From Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik, by permission of Gustav Fischer.

Forty eight displaying Great bustard; the park protects the largest population in Hungary of ca 400 birds.

Smoking protects you against ulcerative colitis, renders you more liable to Crohn's?

Built-in computer manages batteries, invertor, shore power, protects boat from galvanic corrosion by shore power.

Herculex I protects against several insect pests, including European and southwestern corn borer, western bean cutworm and black cutworm.

Yes The law protects individuals from having unauthorized deductions made from their wages, including complete non-payment.

Prawns and shrimps have a rigid exoskeleton that protects the soft internal structure.

You can transport the strips in an empty thermos flask, as this protects them from sudden temperature changes.

A patent is a monopoly right which protects an invention for up to 20 years.