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# shield

«shield» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large flat piece of metal, wood or other material that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shield, shields); verb (shield, shields, shielded, shielding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shield is a large flat piece of metal, wood or other material that a soldier or knight holds to protect themselves from attacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#m1)

2) A shield is anything that protects you, like a heat shield or a sun shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#m2)

3) To shield someone or something is to protect it from harm or danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#m3)

4) A shield is also a badge or a trophy shaped like a shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons knights and Roman soldiers carried shields. In science, the Earth's magnetic field shields us from harmful rays from the Sun; a heat shield protects a spacecraft. In safety, shield your eyes from the Sun and never look straight at it. Phrases: «shield your eyes», «heat shield», «a human shield», «windshield / windscreen».

### examples

- The knight held up his shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x1)
- Shield your eyes from the bright sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x2)
- The mother bird shielded her chicks from the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x3)
- The spacecraft has a heat shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x4)
- Our team won the shield at the sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x5)
- The Romans locked their shields together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x6)
- Suncream shields your skin from sunburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x7)
- They snatched spears and shields from their foes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/#x8)

### note

Spelling: «i before e» — s-h-i-e-l-d. Past: «shielded». «Windshield» (US) = «windscreen» (UK).

### In the corpora

- [A tan is a sign the sun has already harmed the skin, not a shield, so tanned skin still needs sunscreen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/86-sun-cold-and-growing-up/20/)
- [In the testudo, or tortoise formation, soldiers locked their shields above and around them to protect against arrows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/11/)
- [A sheet of paper laid flat on top of a book falls with the book, because the book shields it from the air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/15/)
- [They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.126/)
- [And the Philistine came nearer and nearer unto David; and the man that bore the shield went before him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.495/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shield» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shield/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.