Protect vs. Shield

Protect and Shield Definitions
Protect
To keep from being damaged, attacked, stolen, or injured; guard.
Shield
A broad piece of armor made of rigid material and strapped to the arm or carried in the hand for protection against hurled or thrusted weapons.
Protect
To keep from being subjected to difficulty or unpleasantness
A mother who wanted to protect her children from the troubles she had seen when growing up.
Shield
A person or thing that provides protection.
Protect
To keep from being curtailed or exposed to risk
The reporter vowed to protect the privacy of his sources.
Shield
A steel sheet attached to an artillery piece to protect gunners from small-arms fire and shrapnel.
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Protect
To help (domestic industry) with tariffs or quotas on imported goods.
Shield
(Physics) A wall or housing of concrete or lead built around a nuclear reactor to prevent the escape of radiation.
Protect
To assure payment of (drafts or notes, for example) by setting aside funds.
Shield
(Electronics) A structure or arrangement of metal plates or mesh designed to protect a piece of electronic equipment from electrostatic or magnetic interference.
Protect
(Sports) To attempt to hold (a lead) by playing careful defense and avoiding risky plays.
Shield
A pad worn, as at the armpits, to protect a garment from perspiration.
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Protect
To swing at a pitch near (home plate) in order to avoid being called out on strikes.
Shield
A sanitary napkin.
Protect
To swing at a pitch so as to give (a base runner) a better chance of advancing.
Shield
(Zoology) A protective plate or similar hard outer covering; a scute or scutellum.
Protect
(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
To protect a child from danger
This antivirus package will protect your computer from hackers.
Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.
Shield
An escutcheon.
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Protect
To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
Shield
A decorative emblem that often serves to identify an organization or a government.
Protect
To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.
The gods of Greece protect you!
Shield
A police officer's badge.
Protect
Shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage;
Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain
Shield
(Geology) The ancient, stable, interior layer of continents composed of primarily Precambrian igneous or metamorphic rocks. Also called continental shield.
Protect
Use tariffs to favor domestic industry
Shield
To protect from being attacked, exposed to danger, or subjected to difficulty
"a policymaking elite whose families and purses are shielded from the sacrifices war entails" (Uwe E. Reinhardt).
Shield
To cover up; conceal
"Though many eyes were watching, none could pierce the halo of morning sunlight that surrounded and shielded the hawk" (Peter Dunne).
Shield
To act or serve as a shield or safeguard.
Shield
Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Shield
A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
Shield
(figurative) One who protects or defends.
Shield
(lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
Shield
A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
Shield
(science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
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.
Shield
(heraldry) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
Shield
A toilet seat.
Shield
A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
Shield
(obsolete) A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
Shield
(transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
Shield
A police badge.
Shield
(geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
Shield
(geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
Shield
A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
Shield
Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
Shield
To protect, to defend.
Shield
(electricity) to protect from the influence of
Shield
A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, - formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
Now put your shields before your hearts and fight,With hearts more proof than shields.
Shield
Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Shield
Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Shield
In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
Shield
The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
Shield
A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
Shield
A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
Shield
A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
Shield
To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field,To see the son the vanquished father shield.
A woman's shape doth shield thee.
Shield
To ward off; to keep off or out.
They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured.
Shield
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
God shield that it should so befall.
God shield I should disturb devotion!
Shield
A protective covering or structure
Shield
Armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
Shield
Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
Shield
Hold back a thought or feeling about;
She is harboring a grudge against him