Dictionary Definition
protect
Verb
1 shield from danger, injury, destruction, or
damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"
2 use tariffs to favor domestic industry
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /pɹəˈtɛkt/, /pr`@"tEkt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Derived terms
Translations
to keep safe
- Arabic:
- Azeri: qorumaq
- Chinese: 保护 (bǎohù)
- Czech: chránit
- Danish: beskytte
- Dutch: beschermen
- Finnish: (~ sth against a concrete threat) suojata; (~ sth against an abstract threat) suojella
- French: protéger
- German: schützen
- Hungarian: védeni
- Ido: protektar
- Italian: proteggere
- Japanese: まもる (mamoru), 保護する (ほごする, hogo suru)
- Korean: 보호하다 (bohohada)
- Kurdish: parastin (-parêz-) /
- Malayalam: രക്ഷിയ്ക്കുക (rakshikkuka)
- Norwegian: beskytte
- Portuguese: proteger
- Romanian: a proteja, a apara
- Russian: защищать (zaščiščát’)
- Spanish: proteger
- Swahili: kukinga
- Swedish: skydda
- Telugu: సంరక్షించు (saMrakshiMchu)
* Lithuanian: (lietuviškai) [saugoti,
apsaugoti]
Extensive Definition
The word protection refers to anything that helps
ward off some threat; the preservation from injury or harm; money
paid for a guarantee against threatened violence.
Protection may also refer to:
- Protection (album), a 1994 album by Massive Attack
- Protection (climbing), a climber's basic safety mechanisms
- Protection (poker), type of bet made to strengthen vulnerable hands
- Personal protective equipment, to shield the body from hazards
- Power system protection, of electric systems against faults
- Protection mechanism an aspect of computer architecture
- A condom (slang)
- A promised benefit from a protection racket, an extortion scheme
- Life insurance
- Earthquake protection
protect in German: Schutz
protect in Spanish: Protección
protect in French: Protection (homonymie)
protect in Japanese: 保護
protect in Polish: Protection
(ujednoznacznienie)
protect in Simple English: Protection
protect in Swedish: Beskydd
protect in Russian: защита
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abet,
advocate, aid, arm, armor, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand,
befriend, benefit, bless, bulwark, care for, champion, cloak, comfort, compass about, conserve, copyright, cover, cushion, defend, do good, doctor, ease, ensure, favor, fence, fend, flank, foster, give a boost, give a
hand, give a lift, give help, guarantee, guard, guard against, harbor, haven, help, insure, keep, keep alive, keep from harm,
keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep up, lend a hand, lend
one aid, maintain, make
safe, make sure, mind,
nestle, not destroy, not
endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, nurture, patent, play safe, police, preserve, proffer aid, rally, reclaim, redeem, register, relieve, remedy, render assistance,
rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, ride shotgun for,
safeguard, save, screen, secure, set up, shelter, shield, shroud, spare, succor, support, sustain, take care of, take in
tow, take precautions, tend, underwrite, uphold, watch over