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guard English

Meaning guard meaning

What does guard mean?
Definitions in simple English

guard Noun

— A guard is a person or a group of people who watch something and try to stop anything bad from happening to it. After leaving the police he worked as a security guard at an airport. The inmate was beaten by a prison guard while other guards watched. — A guard is something that is a barrier between you and something dangerous. You push a button and a guard comes down to keep your hands out of the machine while it works. — A guard is a position on a basketball team who moves the ball to help their team gain points — A guard is an offensive position in American football who plays either side of the center.

guard Verb

— If you guard something, you watch it and try to stop anything bad from happening to it. The front gate was guarded by Iraqi soldiers.

guard

— noun a person who keeps watch over something or someone — verb watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect guard my possessions while I'm away — verb to keep watch over there would be men guarding the horses — noun the person who plays that position on a football team the left guard was injured on the play — noun a device designed to prevent injury or accidents — verb (= hold) protect against a challenge or attack Hold that position behind the trees! Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks — noun a posture of defence in boxing or fencing keep your guard up — noun (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage guards must be good blockers — noun a position on a basketball team — noun the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team — noun a military unit serving to protect some place or person — verb take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence guard against becoming too friendly with the staff guard against infection — noun the duty of serving as a sentry he was on guard that night — noun (= precaution, safeguard) 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

Synonyms guard synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as guard?

guard English » English

protect watch watchman defend watch over sentry sentinel preserve guardian keep safeguard protection look after protector shield patrol warder escort keeper watcher guardsman defence take care of warden save picket custodian conserve ward security guard marshal keep watch lookout conductor wait shelter patrolman garrison custody cover watch out tend security secure police caution caretaker watch out for ward off take care

Topics guard topics

What do people use guard to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Social behavior Conflict War

Military organization
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Football, soccer
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Door
Work and occupation

Occupation
Work and occupation Tool

Parts of tools
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Alert
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
States Time Aspectual time Age

Old fashioned

Conjugation guard conjugation

How do you conjugate guard?

guard · verb

Examples guard examples

How do I use guard in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom is a prison guard.
Always be on guard.
It caught me off guard; I didn't know what to do.
Be on your guard against fire.
You should be on your guard when doing business with strangers.
Be on your guard against pickpockets.
That guard tends to do everything by the book.
Be on your guard against her.
Be on your guard against him.
He is working as a security guard at a warehouse.
They kept guard by turns.
I was thrown off guard.
That you should be stalking Hanako! You'd been quiet recently so I'd let my guard down.
We happened to see a truck run into the guard-rail.
He was caught off guard when his wife announced they were going to have a baby.
When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.
Tom has been a prison guard for ten years.
Tom is a security guard at the airport.
Tom's question caught Mary completely off-guard.
He entered the bank disguised as a guard.

Movie subtitles

Hey, storage yard ghost. Guard those sauces and pastes well.
As you can see, I'm a guard.
I'm absolutely a guard.
Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, we'll go pay a visit to the Coast Guard.
We are a brotherhood, and when one of our brothers go missing, it hurts the whole Coast Guard family.
This is an internal matter for the Coast Guard, thus to be handled internally by the Coast Guard with no outside help.
We need base access, we need to interview his shipmates, but the Coast Guard keeps shutting us down at every turn.
Have you had any interaction with the Coast Guard?
They put it in a Coast Guard truck and take it off my hands.
Anything else, you're gonna have to ask the Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard truck?
I'm on official Coast Guard business, so unless you want to take it up with the President of the United States.
Take this and guard the farm.
I can guard your house, take the children to school, - anything!
Man, I had to clean out her closet, clean out her bathroom, throw her mouth guard in the trash.
I let my guard down.
Well, you caught me off guard.
Be on your guard when you interact with him.
Contact the coast guard.
The soldiers of fortune were ordered to leave, and were kept under guard until crossing the border.
But to guard timid heart I behaved haughtily, arrogant and gruffly, I talked about the sacrifice I would make for her more evil than self-mutilation and death.
Many women, for instance, confess that - transformed into cats - they soiled the altar during the night, while two devils in the shape of animals stood guard at the church door.
Call the guard!
A steel ring of the Red Guard units surrounds the Winter palace.
THOSE who guard the capital's interests.
You're in a position of trust. You're supposed to guard the artist entrance. You left to watch the show rehearsals?
He makes you feel like he's giving you some kind of gift, when all he's done is turn you into a bunch of guard dogs!
You don't need to guard my position.
This. what is it? It was given to the Royal Family bank for safekeeping, it's the guard's personal treasury.
Why is this woman stuck onto a guard?
Guard those sauces and pastes well.
Contact the Coast Guard.
By decree of His Majesty the King, Armand de Foix lieutenant is promoted to second lieutenant of the royal guard.
Give me the strength to guard my father from the evil machines!
His Majesty's Chamberlain and First Lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Life Guard-Mounted.
Just be on your guard against the women out there.
THE REST OF YOU GUARD THE DOORS AND WINDOWS.
MY DEAR FELLOW, THOSE MEN ON GUARD HERE LAST NIGHT WEREN'T OUR MEN.

News and current affairs

For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
Kostunica's election as President of Yugoslavia amounts to an incomplete revolution: many of the old guard are still in place.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's announcement that he plans to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as some settlements in the West Bank, has shocked and caught people off guard both in Israel and around the world.
The Al Qaeda-led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Developments in Morocco, Bahrain, and Jordan certainly seem to suggest that this changing of the guard can help soften rigid political structures and allow for broader participation.
The Republicans should not have been caught off-guard by Americans' interest in issues like disenfranchisement and gender equality.
Consider the Senkaku incident in 2010, when, after Japan arrested the crew of a Chinese trawler that had rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel, China escalated its economic reprisals.
Perhaps we are just seeing the beginnings of a changing of the guard, and that HSBC and Citibank will be replaced as global players by China's ICBC, Brazil's Itau Unibanco, or Russia's Sberbank.
Unfortunately, existing international institutions, like the UN, are ill-suited to safeguard universal interests because they are associations of states, and states jealously guard their interests.
In particular, there is strong evidence that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) split into two major factions, with one supporting Jalili and the other backing Qalibaf.
By presenting voters with more candidates than positions, Deng Liqun, a member of the ultra-left Old Guard, was denied a seat.
The Communist Party is preparing to change its old-guard leadership over the next two years.
Both guard their social standing jealously - and may even punish a guest who attends the other's party by withholding future invitations.
But who is to guard the guardians?
If domestic tensions, above all within Iran's restive middle class, ease as a result, the government will receive the credit, while the Iranian Republican Guard and other hardliners will be weakened.
In the current climate of anxiety and uncertainty, policymakers must ensure strong communication and coordination, avoid beggar-thy-neighbor policies, and guard against protectionism.
But we must guard against the re-emergence of significant imbalances, which means, in part, assuring the exchange-rate flexibility that must play a critical role in allowing needed economic adjustments to occur.
Then came the riots in Tibet, which caught the government off guard, followed by embarrassing protests over China's Olympic torch relay in several Western and Asian countries.
It will become safer still in the coming years, provided that governments, plant operators, and regulators do not drop their guard.
The fact that these issues are being debated is a good sign in itself - keeping Google and its watchers on guard.
Emerging market countries elsewhere have made considerable reform progress of late, but they must sustain the momentum to guard against potential shocks.
Such political goodwill is essential for regional stability, particularly given the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations following last year's confrontation over the arrest of a Chinese fisherman by Japan's coast guard.

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