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lifeguard
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A guard of the life or person; a guard that attends a prince or other person; a bodyguard. 2 (context chiefly US English) An attendant, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water. 3 A lifesaver. 4 (context rail transport English) A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
WordNet
n. an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents [syn: lifesaver]
Wikipedia
Lifeguard (Heather Cameron) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is primarily associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Salvador Larroca, she first appeared in X-Treme X-Men #6 (December 2001).
She is a mutant, gaining whatever superhuman abilities are needed in a life-threatening situation. She and her brother Slipstream were briefly members of the segment of X-Men featured in the series X-Treme X-Men.
A lifeguard is a person who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, or beach. Lifeguards are strong swimmers and trained in CPR/AED first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment depending on requirements of their particular venue. In some areas, lifeguards are part of the emergency services system to incidents and in some communities, the lifeguard service also carries out mountain rescues, or may function as the primary EMS provider.
Lifeguard is a 1976 drama movie made by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Daniel Petrie, based upon a screenplay by Ron Koslow. It stars Sam Elliott, Anne Archer, Steve Burns, Parker Stevenson, and Kathleen Quinlan.
Sam Elliott plays Rick Carlson, a 32-year-old lifeguard on a Southern California beach who is prompted to question his goals in life when he receives an invitation to his 15-year high school reunion. At this reunion, he meets his high-school sweetheart, Cathy (played by Anne Archer), now the divorced mother of a young son. They resume their past relationship and Cathy encourages Rick to take a job as a Porsche salesman, offered to him by another high-school classmate. Meanwhile, Rick must deal with Wendy (played by Kathleen Quinlan), a lonely teenage girl who has developed a crush on him.
A lifeguard is an emergency service worker.
Lifeguard may also refer to:
Entertainment- Lifeguard (film), a 1976 film starring Sam Elliott and Anne Archer
- The Lifeguard, a 2013 film starring Kristen Bell and David Lambert
- Lifeguard (reality TV series)
- Lifeguard, a book by James Patterson
- "Lifeguard", a short story in the collection Pigeon Feathers by John Updike
- Lifeguard (comics), an X-Men character
- Life Guards (United Kingdom), a British Army regiment
- Life Guards (Sweden), a Swedish Army regiment
- Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment, a Bavarian Army regiment
- Royal Life Guards (Denmark), a Danish Army regiment
- Commander-in-Chief's Guard or Washington's Life Guard, was a short-lived Continental Army infantry and cavalry unit (1776–1783)
- Lifeguard (automobile safety), a 1956 safety package marketed by the Ford Motor Company
Lifeguard was the name of a 1956 safety package marketed by the Ford Motor Company.
Spurred by Robert McNamara, the Cornell University crash research program and the first year of Ford's own crash testing (1955) the Lifeguard package included:
- Three standard features:
- A safety "deep-center" steering wheel with spokes that would flex.
- Safety "double-grip" door latches to prevent occupant ejection in case of a crash.
- Safety rearview mirror to reduce broken glass if shattered.
- Two optional features:
- Front and rear lap only seat belts (first offered by Ford in 1955).
- Padded dashboard and sun visors (the padding was advertised as being more absorbent than foam rubber.) The instruments were recessed to minimize injury potential.
The buying public was unresponsive to the Lifeguard package according to some, prompting Henry Ford II to say: McNamara is selling safety, but Chevrolet is selling cars. Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook claim that the package was extremely popular.
Usage examples of "lifeguard".
He was thrown out and forbidden to return for the rest of the summer, and a bikinied lifeguard named Shelley came to me while I was holding my nose, put her hand on my arm, and asked if I was hurt.
David Zielinsky walked out of the Theatrical and onto Short Vincent, left onto East Sixth, right onto Euclid Avenue, heading to Terminal Tower, where he intended to take the streetcar home, heave rubber-banded newspapers onto stoops all over Old Brooklyn, eat the dinner Aunt Betty would serve, and after that meet up with his buddies and see if that redheaded lifeguard was still over at Brookside, if she even existed, and be home by dark.
David never found out for sure about the lifeguard at Brookside Pool, though he would always have a thing about redheaded women.
French public institution, terribly overcharged with functionaires, in this case officious, functionary lifeguards.
When one of the Haulover lifeguards tried to shield one of the girls, he was kicked repeatedly.
Muscular and darkly tanned, Makimo sat atop a steel lifeguard tower as his eyes swept the water beyond the beach at Hanauma Bay, a wondrous, protected near-circle of everchanging blue and green sea off the island of Oahu.
For a long time, the lifeguards have been trying to get someone to pay attention.
Part-timers are hired to fill out the shifts, though many are not trained as emergency medical technicians, as the full-time lifeguards usually are.
While the park is much more crowded than it was in 1975, there are five fewer full-time lifeguards now.
Today the lifeguards meet with county parks officials to pleadagainfor help in making the beach safer.
The boyfriend was a lifeguard who possessed the essential imperviousness to boredom that all lifeguards must have.
Remember, the Special Group is spread out in garrisons all over Kingdom, and by the time any of those garrisons can reinforce the Lifeguards, the battle will be over.
In the swimming pool the water was clean and blue, flanked by high white lifeguard perches, broken by wooden buoys that bobbed on a twist of thick rope that had been strung from one side to the other between the deep end and the shallow waters where the babies and nonswimmers could safely splash.
Behind him, Romer saw several shooters of the Lifeguards crowded in the hallway.
Lifeguards officially closed the beach on three days, but plenty of idiotic showoffs hopped in anyway.