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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211) The result shows that the technical stability of Chinese team is low, and they could hardly complete the attack and defense technique efficiently in a whole match.
212) On national security, he frameshis non-interventionism as both a cry for fiscal sanity -- wars are expensive-- and a defense of the Constitution.
213) This research could be used to detect the special individual in spaceflight project and defense project.
214) Bryant is the best one of the defense, defense is close-fitting oppressive.
215) In these commission trials, the defendants are prosecuted, judged and represented by U.S. military lawyers, but private lawyers have volunteered to be part of the defense team.
216) Plaette tangs are also known as surgeonfish because they use a sharp spike on their tail for defense. Ouch!
216) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
217) Ground-nesting birds like the brush turkey are precocial — they hit the ground running when they are born, a crucial defense from predators.
218) Meanwhile, NATO defense ministers pledged at their conference to deploy additional fixed and rotary wing aircraft to help intensify their efforts in Libya.
219) The Germans had not mounted any defense at all on the east bank of the Seine, but that left the Meuse, Moselle, Roser , Saar, Waal, and Rhine Rivers and their tributaries to go.
220) Only this would provide a credible defense against a militarily superior India.
221) Defense attorney to aspects and so on murder evidence raised the objection.
222) This experiment discussed the effect of yolk antibody on the passive immunity defense through preparing high-titer yolk antibody against the high-efficient rabbit's viral hemorrhage.
223) Once the BF-1 has completed its inaugural flight, the US Department of Defense is expected to release funding for the purchase of six F-35B aircraft for the US Marine Corps.
224) The standard air defense fire unit theory demand was calculated by adopting damage probability method and damage target mathematical expectation method.
225) The report, given by Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby , director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that "with the exception of naval forces, Iran's military modernization has been stagnant."
226) Method 12 neurotic depression, 56 major depression and 38 other neuroses were investigated by the Type A Behavior Questionnaire(TABQ)and Defense Style Questionnaire(DSQ).
227) Additionally, a Department of Defense project at SDSU is working to produce jet fuels from biomass such as prairie cordgrass.
228) The CVRJ and Band C programs are satisfying an urgent Department of Defense requirement for increased system production in order to prevent the detonation of radio-controlled IEDs.
229) With the development of missile defense system, the penetration of ballistic missile will faces with a greater menace, and the midcourse of ballistic missile is the focus of countermine.
230) EADS is the European aeronautic defense and space company, the parent of Air bus.
231) Air defense weapon system is a complex system, it is characterized with asynchronism and concurrency.
232) General Michael Maples, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the plotters received direction from al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
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