Shelter vs Defend - What's the difference?
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A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
(obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
*:The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend .
(obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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*:Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme / but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely / that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
(legal) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
, title= (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
Shelter is a related term of defend.
As verbs the difference between shelter and defend
is that shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect while defend is defends, protects (3rd person singular, present tense).As a noun shelter
is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
defend
English
Verb
(en verb)Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending , said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}