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defense

/ defense /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
protection from harm
"sanitation is the best defense against disease"
Type of:
protection
noun Sense 2
military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
"they died in the defense of Stalingrad"
"they were developed for the defense program"
Type of:
military action action
Kinds of:
umbrella air defense stand hasty defense hasty defence
Domain:
military armed forces armed services
noun Sense 3
a defendant''s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
"he gave evidence for the defense"
Opposites:
prosecution criminal prosecution
Type of:
due process due process of law
Kinds of:
entrapment
Has parts:
trial
Derived:
traverse deny
Domain:
law jurisprudence
noun Sense 4
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
"his teams are always good on defense"
Opposites:
offense offence
Type of:
team squad
Derived:
defend
Domain:
sport athletics
noun Sense 5
the justification for some act or belief
"he offered a persuasive defense of the theory"
Type of:
justification
Kinds of:
apology apologia alibi excuse exculpation
Derived:
vindicate justify defend support fend for
noun Sense 6
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
"the defense called for a mistrial"
Opposites:
prosecution
Type of:
collection aggregation accumulation
Derived:
defend represent
noun Sense 7
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
"he joined the defense against invasion"
Type of:
organization organisation
Kinds of:
bastion
Derived:
defend guard hold
noun Sense 8
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
"his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"
"in defense he said the other man started it"
Type of:
answer
Kinds of:
confutation rebuttal
Derived:
refute rebut
noun Sense 9
a structure used for defense
"the artillery battered down the defenses"
Type of:
structure construction
Kinds of:
cheval-de-frise chevaux-de-frise fortification munition fortress
noun Sense 10
the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
Type of:
executive department
noun Sense 11
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Type of:
process unconscious process psychoanalytic process
Kinds of:
compensation conversion denial displacement idealization
Domain:
psychiatry psychopathology psychological medicine
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
11
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
65
Times Searched
2
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protection military action action umbrella air defense stand hasty defense hasty defence due process due process of law entrapment prosecution