Crossword clues for guard
guard
- Close watch
- Court position
- Hoops position
- Security worker
- Provide protection for
- Position Michael Jordan played
- Person in a palace
- Hoops or gridiron position
- Con tender
- Word after point and right
- Tall hat wearer at Buckingham Palace
- Steph Curry's position
- Stand watch
- Smallest NBA starter, typically
- Security officer
- Prison staffer
- Position for Steph Curry
- Point ___ (basketball position)
- Play defense against
- One just left of center?
- On either side of the center
- Michael Jordan's old position
- Michael Jordan was one
- Keep, as a secret
- Épée accessory
- Court dribbler
- Buckingham Palace employee
- Allen Iverson or Vince Carter
- A protective rock
- Conservative faction left in party raised barrier
- Looking embarrassed, protects Maoists
- Shield
- Kind of dog
- Pool employee
- Michael Jordan, notably
- There's one right and left of center
- Basketball position
- Museum worker
- Sentry duty
- One of two on a basketball team
- Palace employee
- Much-photographed figure outside Buckingham Palace
- Player most likely to shoot a three-pointer
- Watch over
- Three-pointer shooter, usually
- The person who plays that position on a football team
- A device designed to prevent injury
- A posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- A group of men who escort and protect some important person
- The duty of serving as a sentry
- A position on the line of scrimmage
- A position on a basketball team
- A person who keeps watch over something or someone
- Poky person
- Protect
- Knocked back dope snatching a watch
- Watchful one
- Bank employee
- NBA position
- Museum employee
- Watch carefully
- Keep safe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guard \Guard\ (g[aum]rd), v. i. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.
Guard \Guard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gurding.] [OF. guarder, garder, warder, F. garder, fr. OHG. wart?n to be on the watch, await, G. marten. See Ward, v. & n., and cf. Guard, n.]
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To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.
For Heaven still guards the right.
--Shak. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
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To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.
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To fasten by binding; to gird. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.Syn: To defend; protect; shield; keep; watch.
Guard \Guard\, n. [OF. guarde, F. garde; of German origin; cf. OHG. wart, warto, one who watches, warta a watching, Goth. wardja watchman. See Guard, v. t.]
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One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.
His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft.
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A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.
The guard which kept the door of the king's house.
--Kings xiv. 27. One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. [Eng.]
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Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as:
That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.
Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.
A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.
A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.
An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.
A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.
(Bookbinding) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.
A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.
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An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.
They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I.
--Atterbury. Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.
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(Zo["o]l.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites. Note: Guard is often used adjectively or in combination; as, guard boat or guardboat; guardroom or guard room; guard duty. Advanced guard, Coast guard, etc. See under Advanced, Coast, etc. Grand guard (Mil.), one of the posts of the second line belonging to a system of advance posts of an army. --Mahan. Guard boat.
A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout.
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A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations.
Guard cells (Bot.), the bordering cells of stomates; they are crescent-shaped and contain chlorophyll.
Guard chamber, a guardroom.
Guard detail (Mil.), men from a company regiment etc., detailed for guard duty.
Guard duty (Mil.), the duty of watching patrolling, etc., performed by a sentinel or sentinels.
Guard lock (Engin.), a tide lock at the mouth of a dock or basin.
Guard of honor (Mil.), a guard appointed to receive or to accompany eminent persons.
Guard rail (Railroads), a rail placed on the inside of a main rail, on bridges, at switches, etc., as a safeguard against derailment.
Guard ship, a war vessel appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbor, and also, in the English service, to receive seamen till they can be distributed among their respective ships.
Life guard (Mil.), a body of select troops attending the person of a prince or high officer.
Off one's guard, in a careless state; inattentive; unsuspicious of danger.
On guard, serving in the capacity of a guard; doing duty as a guard or sentinel; watching.
On one's guard, in a watchful state; alert; vigilant.
To mount guard (Mil.), to go on duty as a guard or sentinel.
To run the guard, to pass the watch or sentinel without leave.
Syn: Defense; shield; protection; safeguard; convoy; escort; care; attention; watch; heed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "one who keeps watch," from Middle French garde "guardian, warden, keeper; watching, keeping, custody," from Old French garder "to keep, maintain, preserve, protect" (corresponding to Old North French warder, see gu-), from Frankish *wardon, from Proto-Germanic *wardo- "to guard" (see ward (v.)). Abstract or collective sense of "a keeping, a custody" (as in bodyguard) also is from early 15c. Sword-play and fisticuffs sense is from 1590s. Guard-rail attested from 1860.
mid-15c., from guard (n.) or from Old French garder "to keep watch over, guard, protect." Related: Guarded; guarding.
Wiktionary
n. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. vb. 1 To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. 2 To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. 3 To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety. 4 To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. 5 To fasten by binding; to gird.
WordNet
v. to keep watch over; "there would be men guarding the horses"
watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my possessions while I'm away" [syn: ward]
protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks" [syn: defend, hold]
take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence; "guard against becoming too friendly with the staff"; "guard against infection"
n. a person who keeps watch over something or someone
the person who plays that position on a football team; "the left guard was injured on the play"
a device designed to prevent injury [syn: safety, safety device]
a posture of defence in boxing or fencing; "keep your guard up"
the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
a group of men who escort and protect some important person [syn: bodyguard]
a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down" [syn: precaution, safeguard]
the duty of serving as a sentry; "he was on guard that night" [syn: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go]
a position on the line of scrimmage; "guards must be good blockers"
a position on a basketball team
Wikipedia
Guard or guards may refer to:
In computer programming, a guard is a boolean expression that must evaluate to true if the program execution is to continue in the branch in question.
Regardless of which programming language is used, guard code or a guard clause is a check of integrity preconditions used to avoid errors during execution. A typical example is checking that a reference about to be processed be not null, which avoids null-pointer failures. Other uses include using a boolean field for idempotence (so subsequent calls are nops), as in the dispose pattern. Guard code provides an early exit from a subroutine, and is a commonly used deviation from structured programming, removing one level of nesting and resulting in flatter code: replacing if guard { ... } with if not guard: return; ....
The term is used with specific meaning in Haskell, Clean, Erlang, occam, Promela, OCaml, Swift and Scala programming languages. In Mathematica, guards are called constraints. Guards are the fundamental concept in Guarded Command Language, a language in formal methods. Guards can be used to augment pattern matching with the possibility to skip a pattern even if the structure matches. Boolean expressions in conditional statements usually also fit this definition of a guard although they are called conditions.
In the following Haskell example, the guards occur between each pair of "|" and "=":
f x | x > 0 = 1 | otherwise = 0This is similar to the respective mathematical notation:
$f(x) = \left\{ \begin{matrix} 1 & \mbox{if } x>0 \\ 0 & \mbox{otherwise} \end{matrix} \right.$
In this case the guards are in the "if" and "otherwise" clauses.
If there are several parallel guards, such as in the example above, they are normally tried in a top to bottom order and the branch of the first to pass is chosen. Guards in a list of cases are typically parallel.
However, in Haskell list comprehensions the guards are in series, and if any of them fails, the list element is not produced. This would be the same as combining the separate guards with logical AND, except that there can be other list comprehension clauses among the guards.
Guard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Christopher Guard (born 1953), English actor
- Dominic Guard (born 1956), English actor
- Jeremy Guard (born 1970), Australian rules footballer
- Kelly Guard (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Philip Guard (born 1928), English actor
- Pippa Guard (born 1952), British actress
- Rick Guard, English singer-songwriter
The guard is a ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs. In pure grappling combat sports, the guard is considered an advantageous position, because the bottom combatant can attack with various joint locks and chokeholds, while the top combatant's priority is the transition into a more dominant position, a process known as passing the guard. In mixed martial arts competition or hand-to-hand combat in general, it is possible to effectively strike from the top in the guard, even though the bottom combatant exerts some control. There are various types of guard, with their own advantages and disadvantages.
The guard is a key part of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu where it can be used as an offensive position. It is also used, but not formally named, in judo though it is sometimes referred to as "dō-osae" in Japanese, meaning "trunk hold". It is called the "front body scissor" in catch wrestling.
In American and Canadian football, a guard (G) is a player who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage used primarily for blocking. Right guards (RG) is the term for the guards on the right of the offensive line, while left guards (LG) are on the left side. Guards are to the right or left of the center.
The guard's job is to protect the quarterback from the incoming defensive line and linebackers during pass plays, as well as creating openings (holes) for the running backs to head through. Guards are automatically considered ineligible receivers, so they cannot intentionally touch a forward pass, unless it is to recover a fumble or is first touched by a defender or eligible receiver.
In information security, a guard is a device or system for allowing computers on otherwise separate networks to communicate, subject to configured constraints. In many respects a guard is like a firewall and guards may have similar functionality to a gateway.
Whereas a firewall is designed to limit traffic to certain services, a guard aims to control the information exchange that the network communication is supporting at the business level. Further, unlike a firewall a guard provides assurance that it is effective in providing this control even under attack and failure conditions.
A guard will typically sit between a protected network and an external network, and ensure the protected network is safe from threats posed by the external network and from leaks of sensitive information to the external network.
A guard is usually dual-homed, though guards can connect more than two networks, and acts as a full application layer proxy, engaging in separate communications on each interface. A guard will pass only the business information carried by the protocols from one network to another, and then only if the information passes configured checks which provide the required protection.
Usage examples of "guard".
A cardinal had just been created in Australia, and an officer of the Noble Guard had to be sent with the Ablegate to carry the biglietto and the skull-cap.
On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.
Guard Captain arrived, he told me that I could either stay in jail all night and face trial in the morning or I could trust in the judgment of the gods by being in the front ranks of the defenders when Abraxas attacked that evening.
But against the defects of this quality he was guarded by the openness of mind which results from the effort to improve and to keep abreast of the times in which one lives.
The wharf guards are so used to seeing me shuffle past, they would not notice if Abri turned tumbles under my coat.
At the north side, abutting from the ridge, the Crocodile reared its ungainly shape like some petrified antediluvian monster appointed to guard the valley.
I learned from Dessolles, who, as I have stated, was present at the conference in his rank of commander of the National Guard of Paris, that the Marshals were unanimous in urging Alexander to accede to a Regency.
I ventured outside, Achates in my arms, wondering if the Llangarlian guards beyond the door would allow me to walk about the town.
It felt better to wear out my frustrations by the use of my legs, and so I resolved to follow the capering street to the top if need be and see the Vincula and Acies Castle from that height, and then to show my badge of office to the guards at the fortifications there and walk along them to the Capulus and so cross the river by the lowest way.
No man enters a Martian city without giving a very detailed and satisfactory account of himself, nor did I delude myself with the belief that I could for a moment impose upon the acumen of the officers of the guard to whom I should be taken the moment I applied at any one of the gates.
The student must be on his guard against adding a very large excess, which is the commoner error.
Such were the remonstrances made to his catholic majesty with respect to the illegality of the prize, which the French East India company asserted was taken within shot of a neutral port, that the Penthievre was first violently wrested out of the hands of the captors, then detained as a deposit, with sealed hatches, and a Spanish guard on board, till the claims of both parties could be examined, and at last adjudged to be an illegal capture, and consequently restored to the French, to the great disappointment of the owners of the privateer.
This admonition, delivered in his best courtroom tone, caused two of the guards to retreat a couple of steps.
Next week, Lord Ellus McDirk, Lord Ado Lakeesh and the Lakeesh Master were scheduled for trial, along with the Lakeesh guards who had dared touch a McDirk wife.
The Knights who rode guard on the carriage shouted in surprise as the two tumbled to the street, but they were no more adventurous than the ones inside.