SHIELD

S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. is an espionage and law-enforcement agency in the Marvel Comics Universe. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Strange Tales #135, it often deals with superhuman threats.

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Shield

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace, battle axe or similar weapon to the side of the shield-bearer.

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shield

Noun

  1. Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
    1. A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
      1. Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
  1. In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
  1. A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
  2. A field of energy which protects or defends.
  1. Something shaped like a shield, usually an inverted triangle with slightly curved lower sides.
    1. The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
    2. A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
      1. A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
    3. A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
    4. A police badge.
    5. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.

Verb

  1. To protect, to defend.
  2. to protect from the influence of


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