defense

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈfɛns/    美 /dɪˈfɛns/|/ˈdiːˌfɛns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. US,countable,uncountable
  2. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).; A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense. US,countable,uncountable
  3. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).; The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense. US,countable,uncountable
  4. An argument in support or justification of something. US,countable,uncountable
    — to come to someone's defense
  5. An argument in support or justification of something.; The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding. US,broadly,countable,uncountable
  6. An argument in support or justification of something.; The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case. US,broadly,countable,uncountable
  7. Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military. US,countable,euphemistic,uncountable
    — Department of Defense
  8. A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. US,countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To employ defensive tactics (so as to block). US
    — In fact, there is an increase in the effectiveness of the Five Cutter Offense when teams put pressure on, instead of sagging or switching in an attempt to defense the attack successfully.
  2. To furnish with defenses; to defend, protect. US,archaic
    — In the ſyege of greate cities, takyng a bygge compaſſe rounde abowte, we muſt wyth all laboure: make and intercut not farre of the citie, bꝛode and depe trenches defenſed wyth turrettes of woodde, […]

词形变化

defenses plural defence alternative,UK defenses present,singular,third-person defensing participle,present defensed participle,past defensed past defence alternative,UK defenses present,singular,third-person defensing participle,present defensed participle,past defensed past defence alternative,UK

词汇关系

近义词
defence defense fortification guard preservation protection safeguard shield ward
反义词
offense prosecution attack
下位词
overfortification
衍生词
air defense air-defense antidefense anti-slut defense Apartheid Defense League attack is the best form of defense biodefense black rage defense chemical defense Chewbacca defense civil defense counterdefense cyberdefense DEFCON defense attorney defense in abatement defense-independent pitching statistics defense in depth defense lawyer defenseless defense mechanism defense wound defensin defensive defensiveness eco-defense ecodefense gay panic defense homosexual panic defense immunodefense man-to-man defense Matrix defense misdefense nondefense Nuremberg defense orbital defense platform Pac-Man defense personal defense weapon prevent defense self-defense self-defense wound Shaggy defense space defense special defense the best defense is a good offense thesis defense tower defense trans panic defense zone defense
相关词
defend

词源

词源 1
From Middle English defens, defense, from Old French defens, defense, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“protection”). Displaced native Old English bewering. The verb is from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English defencen, defensen, from Old French defenser or its etymon, Latin dēfēnsō.
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