PROTECTIVE
\pɹətˈɛktɪv], \pɹətˈɛktɪv], \p_ɹ_ə_t_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of PROTECTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Serving to keep safe; defensive; serving to foster home industries; as, a protective tariff.
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Protectively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Prophylactic, preventing infection, conferring immunity. 2. A thin oil-silk tissue used in surgical dressings.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Affording or suitable for protection; sheltering.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Affording protection; affording protection to home commodities.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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