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Shielding

Shield \Shield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shielded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shielding.] [AS. scidan, scyldan. See Shield, n.]

  1. To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.

    Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield.
    --Dryden.

    A woman's shape doth shield thee.
    --Shak.

  2. To ward off; to keep off or out.

    They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured.
    --Spenser.

  3. To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! [Obs.]

    God shield that it should so befall.
    --Chaucer.

    God shield I should disturb devotion!
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
shielding

n. 1 (context physics chemistry English) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei 2 (context soccer English) action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from the defender; the person concerned keeps his body between the ball and the defender. vb. (present participle of shield English)

WordNet
shielding
  1. n. the act of shielding from harm

  2. a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay

  3. shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference

Usage examples of "shielding".

Archimages have included shielding aborigines who were in danger of being exterminated by hostile humans, and collecting and disposing of dangerous or inappropriate artifacts of the Vanished Ones that turned up in the ancient ruined cities.

Shielding his light, Alec crossed back to the ruined wall while Seregil remained in the shadows near the door.

She was tossed back into the tube, went sliding and bouncing and falling back into the water, its iciness biting at her in those few places where the ooglith cloaker was not properly shielding her.

Silas and wondered what it was about this kid that made Daman want to give him an extra level of protection, shielding him from the outside world.

Cooper pulled over into the left lane and a Duster clanked up beside the Blazer, in the right lane, shielding the Blazer from hostile fire.

If the Hindmost had set impervious walls between himself and his captive crew, surely he would have coated the entire flight deck with shielding.

Clutching Lagan in the desperate hope of shielding her with his body, La Forge plummeted inside a maelstrom of disintegrating steel and stone.

Allie saw Lytton sitting up, shielding Susan with his body, arm outstretched.

Jake turned Vicky, shielding her with his own big body and slipping off his moleskin jacket to cover her nakedness.

A line of diesel-powered ground vehicles rounded the edge of the ravelin shielding a gap in the berm.

Now it was in the cool of the evening two days after the Battle on the Ridge, that the men, both freemen and thralls, had been disporting themselves in the plain ground without the Burg in casting the spear and putting the stone, and running races a-foot and ahorseback, and now close on sunset three young men, two of the Laxings and one of the Shieldings, and a grey old thrall of that same House, were shooting a match with the bow, driving their shafts at a rushen roundel hung on a pole which the old thrall had dight.

The nearest populated planetary system, Septagon Central, was far enough away to be saved by the heavy radiation shielding on its orbital republics.

Between them and Sideling stood a shielding fighter, a being clad in black.

The Hades Helmet still shielding me, I leap from the speading chariot, land hard, feel something bruise if not break in my right shoulder, and then I tumble to a stop on the floor as the chariot flies directly into the reconstruction vat, smashing plastic and steel, throwing violet liquid a hundred feet into the air of the giant room.

Then Preece whirled his tahr around, putting his back toward Moreya, ready to die shielding her.