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protected

Word definitions for protected in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss; "the most protected spot I could find" [syn: secure ] [ant: unprotected ] guarded from injury or destruction [syn: saved ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protect \Pro*tect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Protecting .] [L. protectus, p. p. of protegere, literally, to cover in front; pro before + tegere to cover. See Tegument .] To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES protected by copyright ▪ The database will be protected by copyright . protected ▪ Elephants are a protected species in Indonesia. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN area ▪ You could get outside the protected area ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Protected is a Christian novel by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye . It contains titles 32-34 in the Left Behind: The Kids series. It's also the tenth novel in the twelve book series.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 defended. 2 (context computing of a variable, method, etc. English) Having the ''protected'' access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general. v (en-past of: protect )

Usage examples of protected.

Hence it was held that certain Indian allottees under an agreement according to which, in part consideration of their relinquishment of all their claim to tribal property, they were to receive in severalty allotments of lands which were to be nontaxable for a specified period, acquired vested rights of exemption from State taxation which were protected by the Fifth Amendment against abrogation by Congress.

The commodore must be a reemployed annuitant, protected in his position by the Gray Rights laws.

The problem for NSA was how to get an antenna and tape recorder into one of the most secret and heavily protected areas on earth.

No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.

White lace doilies lay like winter snowflakes on all the arms of the furniture, and linen antimacassars anachronistically protected the upholstered backs from men who no longer slicked their hair with Macassar oil.

In a court-yard, protected from the rays of the sun only by an awning, was a large walled bason, containing a solution of natron, in which the bodies were salted, and they were then dried in a stone vault, artificially supplied with hot air.

English gentlewomen protected themselves against the vagaries of the English climate with a brolly whose handle was pure goldhollow, as Miss Seeton was always careful to point out, because of the weight, but twenty-four carat hallmarked gold nonetheless.

But he by friends surrounded, like trees shall flourish, Whose crowns, in groves protected, the brooklets nourish.

Roy explained that the burrowing owls were protected by state and federal laws, and that it was illegal to harm the birds or disturb active burrows without getting special government permits.

And the freak coloring of a hypersensitive empath would have protected her in the stewing hells of a Capella slum!

The despatches were certainly the products of a mind inadequately furnished with the experience and knowledge necessary for the task imposed upon it, but the honest intentions of the writer were equally apparent, and might have protected him from the kind of invective to which the noble logomachist subjected him.

Likely he wore other shielding items-an emerald, perhaps, to bring a defensive shield against wood as the magnetite protected him from metal.

Protected by Mother and Father, extras added by Mamo and Tress, later by Patrick, and whatever could be picked up from Bernard, who was older than the others and most often at work in the hotel.

Miss Mandeville, devil take it, needed to be protected from all this lewdness.

One of the cooks, hands now protected with gloves picked one of them up and with juice still squirting out approached Asayaga, who grinned and bowed ritualistically, then knelt down while the cook held the marmot over his head.