Guard vs Guardienne - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between guard and guardienne

is that guard is a person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something while guardienne is a woman, girl, or other female force who or which guards; a female guardian.

As a verb guard

is to protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

guard

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Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

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(military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

(Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

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* {{quote-newsgroup, group=aus.cars, author=Nathan, date=November 23, year=1999

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* {{quote-newsgroup, group=alt.autos, author=Confusement, date=June 12, year=2001

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(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.

(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard .

(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.

(sports) A player playing a position named guard.

(rail) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.

(computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.

Synonyms

* (part of machine blocking dangerous parts) protection * (panel of a car enclosing a wheel) fender

Derived terms

* be on one's guard * bodyguard * changing of the guard * crossing guard * guard dog * guardian * lifeguard * mudguard * off guard * on guard * rear guard * safeguard * vanguard

Verb

(en verb)

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

* Shakespeare

For Heaven still guards the right.

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

Guard the prisoner.

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

Careful people guard against mistakes.

To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

* Shakespeare

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.

To fasten by binding; to gird.

(Ben Jonson)

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guardienne

English

Noun

(en noun)

A woman, girl, or other female force who or which guards; a female guardian.

* 1897 : Samuel Mathewson Baylis, Camp and Lamp , page 87 (Wm. Drysdale & Co.)

As we had the only available crafts, gallantry would dictate that we should, at least, make formal tender of these; but our wrath was high against the guardienne at the gate permitting so many more to pass where the resources were already fully taxed that, each waiting for the other raft-party to do their duty, and both satisfied that pic-nics could better be held on dry land than aboard wet rafts, no move was made by either of us — and the fishing proceeded!

* 1969 : National Council on Family Relations, Journal of Marriage and the Family , volume 31, page 86

The guardienne and the other steward reported it. If I fire him, two years of training in a hot kitchen goes down the drain as well as a good cook.

* 2007 : Kev Reynolds, The Tour of Mont Blanc: Complete Two-way Trekking Guide , page 186] ([http://www.cicerone.co.uk/product/detail.cfm/book/532/title/tour-of-mont-blanc Cicerone Press Limited; ISBN 9781852845322)

Some evenings the guardienne entertains with music on her accordian [sic ].

* 2008 : Martin Calder, A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France , page 163] ([http://www.nicholasbrealey.com/na/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=182 Nicholas Brealey Pub; ISBN 978?1?85788?506?4)

I remarked to the guardienne about the number of lizards running everywhere in the ruins.

* 2008 : Stephen Platt and Scharlie Platt, Corsica GR20 South , page 23] ([http://www.lulu.com/content/2027488 Lulu.com, Leveret Publishing; ISBN 978?0?9558384?0?8)

The guardienne has told us that the weather will be bad “il pleu toutes le jour”, so we wait till after breakfast to decide whether to take the low or high route to Refuge l’Onda.