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Definition of Shielded

1. Adjective. (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury.

Definition of Shielded

1. Verb. (past of shield) ¹

2. Adjective. provided with a shield ¹

3. Adjective. protected from influence or danger ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shielded

1. shield [v] - See also: shield

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shielded

Literary usage of Shielded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"He cannot be shielded from liability because of want of knowledge of wrongdoing on his part, since that ignorance was the result of gross inattention in the ..."

2. Simulation of Ecophysiological Processes of Growth in Several Annual Crops by F. W. T. Penning de Vries (1989)
"324 Formation of shielded reserves The storage behaviour of cassava is not ... A sizeable amount of shielded and available reserves can then be built up in ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Nostril very narrow, lateral ; ею small, with vertical pupil ; head covered «11 scales : snout shielded, scales small, slu".t keeled. ..."

4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"VII Life in Rock Park—Inconvenient independence of lodgings—The average man—"How many gardeners have you got?"—shielded by rose-leaves of culture and ..."

5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"In some species of Falcons the tarsi are shielded, and not reticulated, and the wings are short. ..."

6. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Temple, Refuge, Public Kitchen and Hospital Oom- ~bined—Mary's Grotto, the Refuge, in One—Infant Jesus shielded in It—Proof—Herod's own Son one of the ..."

7. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"... tendency seem to induce them to vary in certain definite lines or directions which are different in THE GREAT shielded GRASSHOPPER. different groups. ..."

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