单词 | guarded |
释义 | guardedadj. 1. a. Defended, protected, watched; having a guard or sentinel. In Fencing (hence figurative, quot. 1821), protected by the ‘guard’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [adjective] > guarded well-guarded1562 guarded1570 shepherded1884 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Div/1 Guarded, communitus. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 947 Who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold. View more context for this quotation 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 240 Truth divine for ever stands secure, Its head as guarded as its base is sure. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 166 What! said he nought..Of guarded pass? 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xii. 11 The breath Which gave it strength to pierce the guarded wit. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 167 The fortress was surprised on its strongest and least guarded side. b. Curling. (See guard v. 9.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [adjective] > covered by stone guarded1817 1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 38 Roaring up the rink he flies, The guarded tee to clear. c. Surgery. (See quot. a1884.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [adjective] > guarded guarded1883 1883 H. N. Martin & W. A. Moale Handbk. Vertebr. Dissect. ii. 145 Find the duct of the pancreas, through which pass a guarded bristle into the duodenum. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 428/2 Guarded Instrument (Surgical), said of an instrument the point or cutting edge of which is concealed or guarded during introduction, and uncovered when at the place where it is to become effective. d. Cards. Said of a card, esp. the next to the highest of a suit, when it is protected (in the same hand) by a lower card of the suit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [adjective] > of specific value in game small1672 guarded1742 high1742 blank1895 wild1927 1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Whist iv. 34 Do not throw away any of that Suit, even to keep a King or Queen guarded. 1821 J. Burney Ess. Game of Whist 20 If you have the queen in sequence, guarded with a small card. 1863 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (ed. 5) 19 When a player holds the second best card guarded, he is said to have a minor tenace, or an imperfect minor tenace. 1863 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (ed. 5) 37 In trumps, if king or queen is turned up, and it is only singly guarded (i.e. if you have only one other trump), it is generally best to put the turn-up on second hand. 1876 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Card Player's Man. 44 With ‘king singly guarded’—that is, with king and only one other card, play your king boldly. e. Chess. (See guard v. 10.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [adjective] > positions unguarded1808 guarded1835 weak1860 checking?1870 pinned1924 1835 Hoyle's Games 337 Take care that no guarded pawn of your adversary's fork two of your pieces. 2. Surrounded by a guard of reserve or restraint; on one's guard; hence, esp. of a person's behaviour, speech, etc.: Careful; prudent; cautious. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [adjective] > specifically of actions or things circumspect1422 well-kept1486 wary1557 cautionary1605 cautionating1654 guarded1709 gingerly1755 well-guarded1781 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 79. ⁋1 Be guarded against giving or receiving little Provocations. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. x. 31 Learn to be more guarded. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 311 The charge..brought against you is expressed in terms guarded and well considered. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 52 If you were upon your trial for life or death..you could not look more resolutely guarded. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III x. 8 Secure in guarded coldness. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 81 The government has preserved a cool and guarded tone throughout. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 360 Their language was so guarded that nothing was gained by the examination. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 106 Portland made a courteous but guarded answer. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 790 In people over forty..limitation of the affection to one [vocal] cord..should lead to a guarded prognosis. 3. a. Ornamented, as with lace, braid, embroidery, etc.; trimmed; tricked out; having ‘guards’ or trimmings (in 17th cent. often allusively). Obsolete exc. Historical and spec. in Heraldry of a garment: Trimmed or turned up with some material. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [adjective] guarded1509 well-guarded1533 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 14 §1 No servyng manne waytyng uppon his Maister..were eny garded Hose. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. O8 Ministers, that flaunt it out in their saten doblets,..garded gownes, cloakes, and the like. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F3 Would not some shallow head..Sweare yon same Damaske-coat, yon garded man, Were some graue sober Cato Vtican? 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. H3v Man... I am no knight, I am Manasses, they made a plaine foole. Dam. The onely were [i.e. wear], for the guarded [printed gaurded] foole is out of request. 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. E2v I grieue to see this double garded age, all side coate, all foole. 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B The most censorious of our Roman gentrie, Nay of the guarded robe the Senators. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 9 In stead of a fine guarded Page, We haue got him A boy, trickt vp in neat and handsome Fashion. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 89 Besides the Place was proper not for the plain but guarded Gown. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 274 Large Gallic or Venetian hosen, slashed, quilted, stuffed, and guarded (or laced), were worn as before. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 46 Guarded, trimmed, or turned up; commonly applied to a mantle. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > with specific colouring or marking blue-flowered1597 red-flowered1629 blue-mantleda1650 rectified1665 well-broke1687 guarded1688 run1725 broken1731 pheasant-eyed1731 red-flowering1731 bizarre1753 run-off1810 unveined1826 self1833 limbate1866 chloranthous1871 albiflorous1879 laced1882 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 115/1 Edged, as Flower leaves often are..of which there are several terms, as edged, striped or streaked, garded, [etc.]. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii The striped carnation and the guarded rose. 4. Of a book: Having guards. (See guard n. 16l.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [adjective] > having guards guarded1888 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 55 Books are said to be ‘guarded’ when the plates are mounted or sewn on guards instead of being stitched or pasted in the ordinary way. 1889 H. B. Wheatley How to Catalogue iii. 71 The slips are lightly pasted down into guarded volumes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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