Guarded

Definition

guard / gɑ:d / n ၁။ [U] အေစာင့္။ အေစာင့္တာဝန္။ a soldier/ sentry on guard (ie at his post, on duty) ❍ The escaped prisoner was brought back under close guard (ie closely guarded). ❍ Policemen were keeping guard outside the building. ❍ guard duty ❍ a guard dog (ie one kept to guard a building or a place). ၂။ [U] ကာကြယ္ရန္ အသင့္ အေနအထား။ drop / keep up one's guard ❍ ( fig ) In spite of the awkward questions the minister never let his guard fall for a moment. [ ဥ ] ကိုး႐ိုးကားရား ေမးခြန္းမ်ားေမးစဥ္ ဝန္ႀကီးက သတိသမၸဇဥ္ အၿမဲခ်ပ္၍ ျပန္ေျဖ ခဲ့သည္။ ၃။ [C] (က) အေစာင့္ စစ္သား (သို႔) ရဲ။ ကင္း။ The prisoner slipped past the guards on the gate and escaped. ❍ a security guard (ie one responsible for protecting a place against entry by eg criminals) ❍ border guards. (ခ) ( esp US ) ( Brit warder ) ေထာင္ၾကပ္။ ၄။ (က) the guard [CGp] အေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႕။ ကင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႕။ ကင္း။ the changing of the guard (ie the replacing of one such group by another, eg at Buckingham Palace) ❍ The guard are/ is being inspected today. See also NATIONAL GUARD, THE OLD GUARD (ခ) [CGp] ကိုယ္ရံေတာ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕။ ဂုဏ္ျပဳတပ္ဖြဲ႕။ The president always travels with an armed guard. ❍ On her arrival the queen inspected the guard of honour. ၅။ the Guards [pl] (in Britain and some other countries) ေရွးအစဥ္က ဘုရင္ (သို႔) ဘုရင္မ သက္ေတာ္ေစာင့္။ တာဝန္အစဥ္အလာရိွခဲ့ေသာ ၿဗိတိသွ် ၾကည္းတပ္မွ ေျခလ်င္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ တစ္မ်ဳိး။ သက္ေတာ္ေစာင့္ တပ္ဖြဲ႕။ the Royal Horse Guards ❍ The Scots/ Irish/ Welsh Guards ❍ a Guards officer. ၆။ [C] ( Brit ) ဂါတ္ဗိုလ္။ ၇။ [C] မေတာ္တဆထိခိုက္မႈ၊ ပ်က္စီးမႈမွ ကာကြယ္ရန္ စက္တြင္ တပ္ဆင္ထားေသာ အကာ (သို႔) လံုၿခံဳေရးကိရိယာ။ Ensure the guard is in place before operating the machine. ❍ SWORD See also FIRE-GUARD v (က) ေစာင့္ၾကပ္သည္။ soldiers guarding the president ❍ A dragon guarded the treasure. ❍ ( fig ) a closely/ jealously guarded secret. (ခ) ေစာင့္ၾကပ္သည္။ the police officers guarding the prisoners. ❏ guard against sth/ doing sth [ PHRV ] သတိျဖင့္ တားဆီးကာကြယ္သည္။ guard against disease ❍ The government must guard against introducing measures which will increase inflation. ❏ guarded adj (of remarks, etc) သတိထား [ေသာ]။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ [ေသာ]။ a guarded reply. မယုတ္မလြန္အေျဖ။ ❍ You should be more guarded in what you say to reporters. ❏ guardedly adv သတိျဖင့္ ခ်င့္ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္။ ❏ guard-rail n လက္ရန္း။ ❏ guard ' s van ( Brit ) ( US caboose ) n မီးရထား အေစာင့္တြဲ။ ဂါတ္တြဲ။ ❏ on guard/ off (one's) guard [ IDM ] သတိခ်ပ္သည္ (သို႔) သတိလက္လြတ္ ျဖစ္သည္။ With journalists, you always have to be on your guard against saying the wrong thing. ❍ put sb on their guard ❍ The lawyer ' s apparently innocent question caught the witness off (his) guard. ❏ stand guard (over sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ကင္းေစာင့္သည္။ ေစာင့္ၾကပ္သည္။ Four soldiers stood guard over the coffin.

Examples

1. A prison guard
2. Uniformed border guards
3. [armed guard] : There was an armed guard on duty outside his door.
4. [post a guard] : The captain posted two guards at the gate.
5. [change/relieve the guard] : The guard was due to be relieved at six o’clock.
6. Members of the Presidential guard
7. Troops belonging to the National Guard
8. A captain in the Scots Guards
9. [guard against] : We kept the landmines as a guard against invasion from the North.
10. A mouth guard
11. [put up your guard(s)] : They put their guards up and began circling each other.
12. As there are no regulations for coachsurfing
13. coachsurfers must be on their guard.