English

Verb

1. present participle of shield

Noun

1. physics chemistry The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei

Antonyms

• deshielding

Protection

• Shield, a hand-held protective device meant to intercept attacks
• Electromagnetic shielding
• Shielded cable
• Energy shield
• Deflector shield, a protective energy field
• Heat shield, which protects a spacecraft or ballistic missile
• Cold shield, used to protect from radiative heating
• Human shield, the use of civilians to deter an attack in warfare
• Lead shielding
• Radiation shield, protects from ionizing radiation
• Shielding effect, in chemistry, is a reduction in the effective nuclear charge
• Tunnelling shield, used in excavation through soft soil
• Dalkon Shield
• Riot shield, used by police forces around the world for crowd control purposes

Things

• Shield (heraldry), the principal portion of a coat of arms
• Shield (geology), a large region of exposed Precambrian basement rock mass, usually at the centre of a continent
• Badge, which is called a "shield" in North American slang
• Shields sailboat, a sailboat class
• U.S. Route shield

Television

• The Shield, a television police drama

Music

• Shield, a song by Deep Purple

Fiction and legend

• In science fiction, a protective energy shield
  • and specifically shields in Star Trek
• Shield (Artemis Fowl), a magical ability possessed by fairies
• S.H.I.E.L.D., a fictional agency in Marvel comics
• The Shield (Archie), a 1940s comic book character
• Scyld Scefing (or Shield Sheafson), a legendary Danish king in the epic poem Beowulf

Places

• Daddry Shield, Durham, England
• North Shields, and South Shields, Tyneside, England
• Shields Road subway station, an underground station in Glasgow, Scotland
• Shields, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Shields, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Saginaw County
• Shields, North Dakota, an unincorporated community near Bismarck
• Shields River, a Yellowstone River tributary

Other

• FA Community Shield, a British soccer trophy
• The Shield (video game) a video game based on the television series of the same name

See also

• Shields (surname)