Antonym: assault, attack, offense. Similar words: defensive, defender, defendant, offense, offensive, dense, sense, license. Meaning: [dɪˈfens] 
n. 1. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 2. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. protection from harm 5. a structure used to defend against attack 6. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 7. the justification for some act or belief 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 10. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 11. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
n. 1. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 2. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. protection from harm 5. a structure used to defend against attack 6. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 7. the justification for some act or belief 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 10. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 11. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires. 
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181) I've been working at NASA, developing hydropowered missile defense systems.
182) The political police have been bureaucratically elevated and placed directly under the National Defense Commission, from where Kim Jong Il runs the state.
183) In recent years, one of the underlying features in our game has been Lock-On Defense.
184) Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Anonymity is the mutant's first defense against the world's hostility.
185) The new president's appointee for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, was asked about that at her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
186) Both missiles flew successfully, but missed each other because of a problem in the sea-based X-band radar, the department's Missile Defense Agency said.
187) Sida Liu and Terence Halliday, who study the Chinese legal system, estimate hundreds of defense lawyers have been prosecuted under "Big Stick 306."
188) So your forte , so to speak, is defense, not scoring points.
188) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
189) So it can give a new thought for the close-in defense.
190) You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense.
191) The defense right is the right that can defend the other party's request or view in the bilateral contract .
192) Global city lights, derived from 9 months of observations from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, are superimposed on a darkened land surface map.
193) But neither sunscreens nor the body's defense mechanism work all of the time.
194) Therefore, the protective enzymes in Hevea brasiliensis seedlings function synergistically in defense of potassium stress in all the organs of young rubber seedlings.
195) I was very happy when I won the First Defense Team last season, because I think that the defenses are very important.
196) This paper mainly studies the actuality of defense sci-tech resources, and brings forward some advices in policy, information channel, management mechanism and sharing system.
197) Since the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) initiated what it calls the prime vendor program, the Pentagon has been encouraged to buy from a cherry-picked group of manufacturers.
198) Civil Defense authorities say 18 bridges and many more roads have been destroyed.
199) Paul Shawcross, from NASA's Office of Inspector General, came to the agency's defense in comments published on CCNet -- a scholarly electronic newsletter covering the threat of asteroids and comets.
200) I got a program called deadbolt defense and a girl with only a couple of hours to live, so what do you know?
201) Terror experts from the State Department and Defense Department quickly began analyzing the situation.
202) The application right, with its special characteristics, is an important right granted to lawyers by law in the process of criminal defense.
203) The A400M is Europe's biggest defense program, bearing hopes of breaking U.S. industry's lock on strategic and tactical military airlift with the C-17 and C-130J.
204) According to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) rapid-response team, a large proportion of the wounds treated at their field hospital in Haiti were infected with Gram-negative pathogens.
205) So far, NYSE has adopted a "just say no" defense to Nasdaq and ICE's overtures, and Deutsche Boerse has shown no intention of changing its deal.
206) Finally, the methods of passive ranging which are used by infrared detection system to defense cruise missile are introduced.
207) The third was a secretary of war who knew nothing about military matters and defense.
208) Most of our defense budget goes for conventional forces and manpower.
209) DARPA officials plan to use the cyber range to test technology for the Global Information Grid, the Defense Department's network for warfighters and other personnel.
210) Air defense weapon system is a complex system, it is characterized with synchronism and concurrency.
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