guarding

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

guarding

1. present participle and gerund of guard

Noun

guarding (countable and uncountable, plural guardings)

1. The duty of one who guards.
2. A guardrail.
   • 2012, James Holmes-Seidle, Barrier-Free Design, page 58:

     Guardings and balustrades should be designed to minimize the risk of wheelchair users catching their feet between balusters  […]

3. (medicine) Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.

Derived terms

• monkey guarding
• puppy guarding

Translations

The duty of one who guards.

• Swedish: vakt (sv) c

guardrail — see guardrail

Tensing of the muscles, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.

• Swedish: défense (sv) n