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shield

noun
/ˈʃiːld/

Etymology

From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”). Compare Breton skoed (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Scottish Gaelic sgiath (“shield”), Latin scūtum (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Belarusian шчыт (ščyt, “shield”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian щит (ščyt, “shield”), Czech and Slovak štít (“shield”), Macedonian штит (štit, “shield”), Polish szczyt (“shield”), Serbo-Croatian штит, štit, ščit (“shield”), Slovene ščit (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”).

  1. derived from *(s)kelH-✻ — “cut, split”
  2. inherited from *skelduz✻ — “shield”
  3. inherited from *skeldu✻
  4. inherited from scield — “shield”
  5. inherited from scheld

Definitions

  1. Anything that protects or defends

    Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

    • Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame.
    • The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas.
    • My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

  2. A shape like that of a shield

    A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.

    • Meronyms: field, charge, emblem
    • The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]

  3. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A place with a toilet seat

      A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.

    2. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a…

      Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision

    3. To protect, to defend.

      • Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.
      • Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.

    4. To shelter

      To shelter; to protect oneself.

      • The government has updated its guidance for people who are shielding taking into account that COVID-19 disease levels have decreased over the last few weeks.

    5. To protect from the influence of.

    6. A surname.

The neighborhood

  • synonymbathroom
  • neighborbucklerAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborheatshieldAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborpavacheAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborpavaisAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborrondacheAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborroundelAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborscutumAnything that protects or defends
  • neighborsunshieldAnything that protects or defends
  • neighbortallevasAnything that protects or defends
  • neighbortargeAnything that protects or defends
  • neighbortargetAnything that protects or defends

Derived

armshield, bitch shield, brown-point shield skin longirostris, chin shield, dayshield, dress shield, enshield, eyeshield, face shield, faceshield, forceshield, Golden Shield, gumshield, gunshield, headshield, heat shield, human shield, ice and water shield, kite shield, lantern shield, living shield, lockshield, meat shield, medicine shield, nipple shield, ozone shield, panty shield, pop shield, radial shield, rape shield, riot shield, roundshield, sap shield, shieldable, shield aralia, shieldback, shield-backed bug, shield-bearer, shield beetle, shieldbill · +36 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shield. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01shield02rock03provides04provide05money06hard07difficulty08achievement

A definitional loop anchored at shield. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at shield

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA