Synonyms of the word

guard

• n. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
• n. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
• n. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
• n. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
• n. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
• n. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
• n. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket;…
• n. (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles,…
• n. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
• n. (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the…
• n. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution…
• v. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
• v. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
• v. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
• v. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces,…
• v. To fasten by binding; to gird.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

assignment

• n. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
• n. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
• n. An assigned task.
• n. A position to which someone is assigned.
• n. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
• n. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
• n. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
• n. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

attitude

• n. The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
• n. Disposition or state of mind.
• n. (uncountable, countable) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
• n. (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon,…
• n. (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
• v. To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
• v. To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

basketeer

• n. Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
• n. A basketball player.

bodyguard

• n. A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
• v. (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.

cager

• n. A basketball player.
• n. A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.

defend

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
• v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
• v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

defender

• n. Someone who defends people or property.
• n. (law) A lawyer who represents defendants.
• n. (Scotland, law) A defendant in a civil action.
• n. A fighter who repels an attack.
• n. (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

detachment

• n. (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
• n. (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
• n. (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
• n. (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or…
• n. (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
• n. (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
• n. (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

guardian

• n. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
• n. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
• n. (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

lineman

• n. a person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman.
• n. (American football) a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

observe

• v. (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
• v. (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
• v. (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

posture

• n. The way a person holds and positions their body.
• n. A situation or condition.
• n. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
• n. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
• v. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will…
• v. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
• v. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

precaution

• n. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
• n. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
• v. (transitive): To warn or caution beforehand.
• v. (transitive, rare): To take precaution against.

protect

• v. To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

protector

• n. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
• n. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
• n. One who prevents interference.
• n. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international…
• n. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after…

safeguard

• n. Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
• n. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
• n. A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
• v. To protect, to keep safe.
• v. To escort safely.

safety

• n. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
• n. (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
• n. (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the…
• n. (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage…
• n. Preservation from escape; close custody.
• n. (dated) A safety bicycle.
• v. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even…

shielder

• n. Agent noun of shield: one who shields.

step

• n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
• n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• n. A small space or distance.
• n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• n. A gait; manner of walking.
• n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• n. (plural) A walk; passage.
• n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
• n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
• n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• n. (slang) A stepsibling.
• v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
• v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

ward

• n. (archaic or obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
• n. Protection, defence.
• n. A protected place.
• n. A person under guardianship.
• n. An object used for guarding.
• v. (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
• v. (transitive) To defend, to protect.
• v. (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually…
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.