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protective

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Word definitions for protective in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES protective clothing ▪ Laboratory technicians have to wear special protective clothing. protective custody (= custody that is meant to keep someone safe ) ▪ The rebel leader has been placed in protective custody. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind; "a protective covering"; "the use of protective masks and equipment"; "protective coatings"; "kept the drunken sailor in protective custody"; "animals with protective coloring"; "protective tariffs" ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Serving, intended or wishing to protect. n. 1 (context British English) Something that protects. 2 A condom.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protective \Pro*tect"ive\, a. [Cf. F. protectif.] Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. `` The favor of a protective Providence.'' --Feltham. Protective coloring (Zo["o]l.), coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from protect + -ive . As a noun from 1875. Related: Protectively ; protectiveness . Protective custody is from 1933, translating German Schutzhaft , used cynically by the Nazis.

Usage examples of protective.

And do you also know that had your egocentric, blind lead wizard not been so protective of his silly secret of the training of young females in the craft, you could have easily stopped me from accomplishing all that I have?

He looked at the thin, frail woman sitting on the bench, her child held firmly in her protective embrace, and guessed that North was an ambivalent destination for her, an ideal to cling to because she had nothing else, and wished he could help and give her some other purpose.

It was decided that Don Clavijo should appear before the Vicar to ask her hand in marriage, since there was a written contract, and Antonomasia was put into protective custody.

The pain was excruciating as the rat bit into the tough material of the protective suit, the teeth not piercing but pinching the skin together.

All the while, Pony rubbed her fingers about several chosen stones: graphite and magnetite, the powerful ruby and protective serpentine and malachite.

Pony rubbed her fingers about several chosen stones: graphite and magnetite, the powerful ruby and protective serpentine and malachite.

Either he was brave, stupid, or there was some kind of protective gear set up in the office, Maro figured.

The huge merman lunged forward and CC struggled painfully not to slide under the surface as Dylan lost his protective hold on her and surged forward to meet the giant.

The maximum containment lab was designed so that dangerous materials could be moved from one work station to the nextfrom microscopy to centrifuge to incubation to culture platingwithout being removed from behind their protective glass barrier.

Phoebe, brandishing before me her protective pentangle, which was smooth, black, non-metallic and thus in every way identical to the one my guide had given me, which I now discovered to be lacking.

It was a matter of protective coloration: what cannot be comprehended is difficult to coerce.

Bishop, Tammi, and Prez formed a protective shell about Cipher as he packed the pipe with herbs, then puffed it into life.

It was how long the probes needed to provide their blanket of protective energy, erected between the pulsar and the endangered planet as both astral bodies made their way through the void.

A smallish gang of werewolves and ghouls who did not come up to his recently rebuckled belt were being escorted down the street under the protective eyes of two moms.

Bill offered the photograph back to Hoover, who gingerly reinserted it into its protective covering.