"డిఫెన్స్" అనే పదానికి నిఘంటువు అర్థం (అమెరికన్ ఇంగ్లీషులో "డిఫెన్స్" అని కూడా పిలుస్తారు) అనేది దాడి నుండి రక్షించుకోవడం లేదా ప్రతిఘటించడం లేదా తనను తాను రక్షించుకోవడం లేదా మరేదైనా సాధనం. ఇది శత్రు దాడి నుండి దేశం లేదా భూభాగాన్ని రక్షించడానికి బాధ్యత వహించే సైనిక లేదా వ్యవస్థీకృత దళాలను కూడా సూచిస్తుంది. అదనంగా, "రక్షణ" అనేది విమర్శ లేదా సవాలు నుండి తనను తాను లేదా మరేదైనా రక్షించుకోవడానికి ముందుకు వచ్చిన వాదన లేదా సమర్థనను వివరించడానికి ఉపయోగించవచ్చు.
1. Richard spun to block the blade but failed to deflect the sword, its speed not fully deadened it made it through his defence and sliced into his left shoulder.
2. Harry stumbled backwards, regaining his balance and holding his fists up in defence.
3. I suppose I thought sorcerers only used their powers for attack or defence.
4. In defence of these, as time advanced and wickedness increased, the order of knights-errant was instituted, to defend maidens, to protect widows and to succour the orphans and the needy.
5. The first to fall was the Goletta, until then reckoned impregnable, and it fell, not by any fault of its defenders, who did all that they could and should have done, but because experiment proved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand there for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the Turks found none at two yards and so by means of a quantity of sandbags they raised their works so high that they commanded the walls of the fort, sweeping them as if from a cavalier, so that no one was able to make a stand or maintain the defence.
6. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
7. He must know mathematics, for at every turn some occasion for them will present itself to him and, putting it aside that he must be adorned with all the virtues, cardinal and theological, to come down to minor particulars, he must, I say, be able to swim as well as Nicholas or Nicolao the Fish could, as the story goes he must know how to shoe a horse, and repair his saddle and bridle and, to return to higher matters, he must be faithful to God and to his lady he must be pure in thought, decorous in words, generous in works, valiant in deeds, patient in suffering, compassionate towards the needy, and, lastly, an upholder of the truth though its defence should cost him his life.
8. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.
9. He did it for defence against the lurking ghost whose unseen presence he sensed.
10. She thought well of Frank in almost every respect and, what was more, she loved him very much, and her defence was, therefore, earnest.