(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting |
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | the act of projecting out from something |
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | any structure that branches out from a central support |
protection from harm | the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction |
a structure used to defend against attack | a planned undertaking |
the justification for some act or belief | a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations |
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | the projection of an image from a film onto a screen |
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality |
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else |
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | |