📖 Определения и значения для слова guard
📒 a person, such as a soldier, a police officer or a prison officer, who protects a place or people, or prevents prisoners from escaping
- prison/border guards
- The building is protected by armed guards.
- The prisoner slipped past the guards on the gate and escaped.
📒 the act or duty of protecting property, places or people from attack or danger; the act or duty of preventing prisoners from escaping
- on guard a sentry on guard (= at his or her post, on duty)
- to be on guard duty
- under guard The escaped prisoner was brought back under armed guard.
📒 a group of people, such as soldiers or police officers, who protect somebody/something
- the captain of the guard
- the changing of the guard (= when one group replaces another)
- The guard is/are being inspected today.
📒 (in the UK and some other countries) special regiments of soldiers whose original duty was to protect the king or queen
- the Scots Guards
- a Guards officer
📒 something that covers a part of a person’s body or a dangerous part of a machine to prevent injury
- All players wear helmets and face guards.
- Ensure the guard is in place before operating the machine.
📒 conductor (= a person who is in charge of a train and travels with it, but does not drive it)
📒 a position you take to defend yourself, especially in a sport such as boxing or fencing
- to drop/keep up your guard
- (figurative) In spite of the awkward questions the minister never let his guard fall for a moment.
- Matt relaxed a little, dropping his guard.
📒 one of the two players on a basketball team who are mainly responsible for staying close to players of the other team to stop them from scoring
📒 one of the two players on an American football team who play either side of the centre forward
📒 to be very careful and prepared for something difficult or dangerous
- He was always on his guard against moneymaking schemes.
📒 to stop being careful and preparing yourself for possible danger or difficulty
- You can never drop your guard with a two-year-old.
- Even when he's winning, he never drops his guard.
📒 to watch or protect somebody/something
- Four soldiers stood guard over the coffin.
- One of the men kept guard, while the other broke into the house.
📒 not careful or prepared for something difficult or dangerous
- The lawyer’s apparently innocent question was designed to catch the witness off (his) guard.
- He caught me completely off guard.
- The question seemed to catch him off his guard.