A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
Wise use of natural resources.
Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)