Difference between Ward and Guard

What is the difference between Ward and Guard?

Ward as a verb is to keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. while Guard as a verb is to protect from some offence (specific or abstract.)

Ward

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. To defend; to protect. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. To be vigilant; to keep guard. To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Protection, defence. # The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.). # Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner. #* 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V: #*: So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners. # Land tenure through military service. # A guarding or defensive motion or position. A protected place. # An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls. #* 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 149: #*: Diocletian [...] must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers... # A section or subdivision of a prison. # An administrative division of a borough, city or council. #: On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace. # A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch. # A room in a hospital where patients reside. A person under guardianship. # A minor looked after by a guardian. #: After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state. # An underage orphan. An object used for guarding. # The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key. #* 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Resident Patient', Norton 2005, page 628: #*: With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied.

Example sentence: I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

Guard

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To protect from some offence (specific or abstract.)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a person (or thing) who protects or watches over somethingA squad responsible for protecting something.a part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous partspanel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket (see to take guard)The offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles. The main responsibilities of the guard is to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run. There are two guards on the field at once.A player playing a position named guard(railways) An employee who normally travels in the last vehicle of a train and is responsible for the safety of the train

Example sentence: He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

We hope you now know whether to use Ward or Guard in your sentence.

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