Look up: guard

1. Guard
   (i) Folding Maps, or plates, are sometimes mounted on guards, narrow strips of paper sewn into the book, to obviate sewing through the middle of the image itself. (ii) a leaf (often of tissue) inserted to protect a plate. (iii) A type of repair to the margins of individual leaves.
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2. guard
   [n] - the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team 2. [n] - a person who keeps watch over something or someone 3. [n] - the person who plays that position on a football team 4. [n] - a group of men who escort and protect some important person 5. [n] - a post...
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3. Guard
   A strip of paper, muslin, or other thin material used to attach or reinforce leaves or inserts in books, permitting bending
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4. Guard
   A narrow strip of paper or linen pasted to a single leaf to allow sewing into a section for binding.
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5. guard
   safety device,usually of sheet metal or wire mesh,which protects personnel from injury by moving machine parts,e.g.pump drive shafts,cylinder rods Category: Physics • protective metal device or structure Category: Transport • the operating employee who,on a crew-operated trai...
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6. Guard
   Guard transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Guarded ; present participle &, verbal noun Gurding .] [ Old French guarder , garder , warder, French garder , fro...
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7. Guard
   Guard (gärd) intransitive verb To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.
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8. Guard
   Guard noun [ Old French guarde , French garde ; of German origin; confer Old High German wart , marto , one who watches, mata a watching, Goth. wardja watchman. See Guard , transiti...
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9. guard
   1. One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. 'His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft.' (Shak) ... 2. A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. 'The guard which kept the door of the k...
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10. guard
    safety noun a device designed to prevent injury
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11. guard
    bodyguard noun a group of men who escort and protect some important person
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12. guard
    noun a position on a basketball team
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13. guard
    noun a posture of defence in boxing or fencing; `keep your guard up`
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14. guard
    ward verb watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; `guard my possessions while I`m away`
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15. guard
    verb to keep watch over; `there would be men guarding the horses`
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16. guard
    (gahrd) a protective device. mouth guard any of various removable intraoral appliances that protect the teeth and sometimes the lips and cheeks during contact sports.
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17. Guard
    • (v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. • (v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. • (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. &bu...
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18. Guard
    [weapon] ==Summary== A model of an Automatic Transmission Controller in Simulink as shown in the MathWorks demos. The screenshot is taken from Simulink 7.7 (R2011a) by The Dark Melon. ==Licensing== ...
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19. Guard
    [American football] In American and Canadian football, a guard (G) is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team. The guard`s job is to protect the quarterback from the incoming defensive line and linebackers during pass plays, as well ...
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20. guard
    (programming) 1. In functional programming, a Boolean expression attached to a function definition specifying when (for what arguments) that definition is appropriate. 2. In (parallel) logic programming, a Boolean expression which is used to select a clause from several alternative matching clauses....
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21. Guard
    [grappling] The guard is a ground grappling position where one combatant has their back to the ground, while attempting to control the other combatant using the legs. In pure grappling combat sports, the guard is considered an advantageous position, since the bottom combatant can attack with...
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22. Guard
    [computer science] In computer programming, a guard is a boolean expression that must evaluate to true if the program execution is to continue in the branch in question. The term is used at least in Haskell, Clean, Erlang, occam, Promela, OCaml and Scala programming languages.{Citation neede...
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23. guard
    
    • a person who keeps watch over something or someone
    • the person who plays that position on a football team
    • a device designed to prevent injury
    • a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
    • a group of men who escort and protect some important person
    • the duty of serving as a sentry
    • a position on the line of scrimmage
    • a position on a basketball team
    
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24. guard
    one of two player positions on offense -- see linemen. A 5-player defensive line will have one, and a defensive line of 6 or more players, two guards, while a defensive line of fewer than 5 players has no guard.
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25. Guard
    Train staff member originally provided to assist with train braking before the introduction of continuous brakes - the name derives from the days of horse-drawn road coaches when guards were employed to protect the passengers from highwaymen. In more recent times, guards have been used to carry out ...
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