(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another |
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life |
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown |
protection from harm | act of exchanging one type of money or security for another |
a structure used to defend against attack | a change in the units or form of an expression: |
the justification for some act or belief | interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition |
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | an event that results in a transformation |
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | a change of religion |
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis |
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | |
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | |