shield – English noun declension

English noun forms of shield

Noun: shield
Singularshield
Pluralshields

Sample Sentences

  • Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. [1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act III, scene II, line 8:]
  • The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:]
  • My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm. [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 44:]
  • Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. [1611, The Holy Bible, King James Version edition, Genesis 15:1:]
  • Go muster men. My counsel is my shield; We must be brief when traitors brave the field. [1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 4, scene 3, line 56:]
  • The earth was excavated from the sunken cylinder; the shield was inserted into it, and the tunnelling began, the target being Wapping, on the opposite bank. The shield was an iron honeycomb containing thirty-six cells within which men dug the wall of mud before them. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 88:]
  • Kinetic barriers, colloquially called "shields", provide protection against most mass accelerator weapons. Whether on a starship or a soldier's suit of armor, the basic principle remains the same.
  • Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kinetic Barriers ("Shields") Codex entry:]
  • Meronyms: field, charge, emblem
  • The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…] [2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:]
  • Bespotted as with shields of red and black. [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:]
  • The chief put something in his hand and Bosch looked down to see the gold detective's shield. [2005, Michael Connelly, The closers: a novel:]
  • Arduino does many interesting things on its own, but it can't do everything. Fortunately, thanks to the open design of Arduino, building add-on boards to extend what Arduino can do is pretty easy. ¶ These boards are called "shields," because they usually fit over the top of Arduino like a protecting shield. ¶ Shields contain their own circuitry, components, and sometimes processing chips that can augment Arduino's capabilities. There are shields that enable Arduino to read GPS signals, drive robot motors, take pictures, connect to Bluetooth devices, control electroluminescent wire...as of this writing, there are more than 300 shields. [2012, Emily Gertz, Patrick Di Justo, “New Component: Ethernet Shield”, in Environmental Monitoring With Arduino, Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”). Compare Breton skoed (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Scottish Gaelic sgiath (“shield”), Latin scūtum (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Belarusian шчыт (ščyt, “shield”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian щит (ščyt, “shield”), Czech and Slovak štít (“shield”), Macedonian штит (štit, “shield”), Polish szczyt (“shield”), Serbo-Croatian штит, štit, ščit (“shield”), Slovene ščit (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”). See: Middle English Nouns 'scheld', Old English Nouns 'scield', Dutch Nouns 'schild', Faroese Nouns 'skjøldur', Icelandic Nouns 'skjöldur', Swedish Nouns 'sköld', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃', Irish Nouns 'sciath', Latin Nouns 'scūtum', Belarusan Nouns 'шчыт', Polish Nouns 'szczyt'.

Verbs referencing "shield"

German Nouns Schild, Danish Nouns skjold, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skjold.