Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of protecting or screening, or that which protects or screens.
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- verb Present participle of
shield . - noun physics, chemistry The situation, in
NMR spectroscopy , in which a localmagnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei - noun soccer
Action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from thedefender ; the person concerned keeps hisbody between the ball and the defender.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of shielding from harm
- noun a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay
- noun shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference
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Examples
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Church in shielding these animals and/or ignoring the actions of the perpetrators.
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Simply cut the plastic shielding from the metal housing of the usb cable and look for the crimp on one side of the metal shielding.
From The Tips Box: USB Cables, SD Card Labels, Shower Cap Uses | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Lastly, when are people going to get smart and look behind the green curtain shielding the income and profit of the malpractice carriers, and huge bonuses being handed out to the executives.
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Church in shielding these animals and/or ignoring the actions of the perpetrators.
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Obscurity and unaccountability start to integrate with a new interest in shielding the grounds of individuality — its supposed inner, ontological roots — from representation, particularly representation according to the universalised laws of physics and logic.
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Plutonium might work, but Geez, the shielding is so heavy.
Bush Team Seeks Dictatorial Financial Powers « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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After years of being "very careful and very protective" in shielding Anna from the spotlight, they decided to open their home to USA TODAY and ABC News in hopes of drawing public attention to their case.
After custody battle, Chinese girl set to be united with birth parents 2007
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The Shade was also heavily magnetized to provide shielding from the potentially deadly solar wind, and cosmic rays.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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To clarify this, the point of magnetic shielding is keep all of the superheated plasma inside the torus-shaped chamber.
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Finally, threatened with harm for his role in shielding 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutu from near-certain death over 100 days during the Rwandan genocide, he sought asylum in Belgium and found work driving a taxicab.
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People with compromised immunity and other conditions were from early on advised to “shield”, and were referred to as “shielding”, an unusual intransitive use of the verb that normally requires a shielder and a shieldee.
From 'alert' to 'zoom': Steven Poole's lexicon of lockdown Steven Poole 2020
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