Definition of ward in English:

ward

noun wɔːdwɔrd

1A separate room in a hospital, typically one allocated to a particular type of patient.
（尤指专为治疗某种病人而设的）病房，病室
a children's ward
儿童病房。
Example sentencesExamples
- Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
- Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand.
- Joan, who has worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary since 1987 and on the children's surgical ward for the last nine years, said she was shocked but delighted by her windfall.
- The Reddys are running for St Teresa's cardiology ward for infants in Our lady's Hopsital for Sick Children in Crumlin
- In Wang's ward in the Haematology Division, only half of patients with cancer may survive.
- Three wards within the Great Western hospital are expected to remain closed until the end of the week, including the Saturn and Neptune medical wards and the Kingfisher trauma ward.
- Last week I stood outside a local school with a petition, people were shocked to hear what was happening and had not heard anything about the threatening closure of the children's ward.
- On top of this, more than 23,000 people, many from the North Cotswolds, have signed petitions in support of the Battledown children's ward in Cheltenham.
- The need for the new predischarge ward arose in the context of attempting to address the shortage of bed accommodation in St. Luke's General Hospital.
- Randomised controlled trial of usual care compared with intervention delivered on hospital wards by cardiac rehabilitation nurses.
- In the Renaissance Hospital, clinics and wards will be based on patient groups rather than medical specialties (table on website).
- You will then be taken back to the hospital ward where nurses will continue to monitor you until you leave the hospital.
- He spent several days in intensive care recovering from the procedure but was moved into a specialist liver ward on Thursday where medical staff are encouraging him to regain his mobility.
- The options are likely to include the closure of the 26-bed Battledown ward at Cheltenham in favour of a 46-bed ward at Gloucester.
- In the camp's acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril.
- In 1988, the first geriatric ward was set up in the GH, but even then, geriatric medicine enjoyed very little priority.
- Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era.
- Two studies have now been completed observing the care of terminally ill patients during their last six days of life in medical wards in two acute hospitals.
- The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.
- Yarmouk Hospital has one of the busiest emergency rooms and obstetrics wards in Baghdad.
Synonyms
room, compartment, department, unit, area
2An administrative division of a city or borough that typically elects and is represented by a councillor or councillors.
（城市的）行政区，选举区
the second most marginal ward in Westminster
Example sentencesExamples
- We called the offices of city councillors representing various downtown wards, and their staff readily acknowledged the litter problem.
- The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen.
- Councillor Royston Smith is deputy leader of Southampton City Council's Conservative group and represents the Harefield ward.
- Councillor David Wilde, who has represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995.
- There are 54 councillors and all of us represent our wards and work hard for them.
- For a start, I would suggest that instead of having 52 or so councillors, that the number is cut down by half, with one councillor representing two wards.
- Issues raised will be discussed by the relief road working group, made up of county councillors representing local wards, and the county council will enforce the changes.
- The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward.
- The Madras Act IX of 1867 divided the city into eight wards, each represented by four Commissioners.
- First there were ward officers - police officers responsible for a particular ward of the city who work with local communities to tackle local crime.
- Candidates for election will run in electoral districts, similar to city councillors' wards.
- But that does not explain why the BNP went on to take six more seats at last week's elections in Burnley, where most wards were electing just one councillor.
- Four years ago he joined Lancaster City Council to represent the Overton ward as a Morecambe Bay Independent.
- Coun Perkins represents Claremont ward and was elected last May.
- It is the first time in 23 years that all three city councillors in the ward have belonged to the same party.
- The proposals would create a York Central Borough seat, made up of nine inner City of York Council wards.
- Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election.
- Membership of the committee is drawn from Bradford councillors representing wards in Keighley, Ilkley and surrounding villages in the Worth and Aire valleys.
- ‘I want to work with community groups in the ward, the city and the region,’ he says.
- Opposition to the closure of the Lister Baths at Featherstone contributed heavily to all three Labour councillors who had represented the ward losing their seats.
Synonyms
district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department, canton
3A child or young person under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court.
受监护人
for the last three years, the boy has been my ward
Example sentencesExamples
- Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward.
Synonyms
dependant, charge, protégé, pupil, trainee, apprentice
minor
1. 3.1archaic mass noun The state of being in the care of a guardian.
  〈古〉监护；受监护的地位
  the ward and care of the Crown
  对国王的监护和照管。
4usually wardsAny of the internal ridges or bars in a lock which prevent the turning of any key which does not have grooves of corresponding form or size.
（锁内）齿凸
1. 4.1 The grooves in the bit of a key that correspond to the wards in a lock.
5archaic mass noun The action of keeping a lookout for danger.
〈古〉监视，看守
I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates
我看见他们正在看守其中的一扇大门。
6historical An area of ground enclosed by the encircling walls of a fortress or castle.
〈史〉城堡内空地，堡场
Example sentencesExamples
- Some very strongly fortified castles of this class have an additional wall set a short distance out from the main enceinte and concentric with it, the area between the two walls being termed the outer ward.
- The inner ward is a square enclosure with circular angle towers, with one bigger and separated by the walls forming the keep.
- Near to this original house, on a chalk hill, William I built a castle, with a ward either side of a low motte.
- The first step was the walling of the early Norman ring work but today only little part of this work survives on the north-west walls of the upper ward, the section facing the outer bailey was demolished.

verb wɔːdwɔrd

[with object]

1Admit (a patient) to a hospital ward.
接受（病人）入病房
the last of the accident victims was warded
Example sentencesExamples
- A 41-year-old security guard is warded in a stable condition at Port-of-Spain General Hospital after he was shot and stabbed 20 times.
- Both are warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
- One of Richardson's alleged accomplices, who was warded under police guard at the San Fernando General Hospital, was expected to face additional charges late yesterday.
- Gomez is warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital in a stable condition.
Synonyms
admit to hospital, admit, take in, let in, accept, receive, give entry to
2archaic Guard; protect.
〈古〉看守；保护
it was his duty to ward the king
他的职责是保卫国王。

Phrases

ward of court

A child or young person for whom a guardian has been appointed by the Court of Chancery or who has become directly subject to the authority of that court.
受法院监护的青少年
Example sentencesExamples
- At one time it was believed that the mere publication of information about a ward of court was contempt of court.
- Funds are held in trust by the courts for around 22,000 people, such as minors and wards of court, who have been awarded damages.
- What was sought to be done was to make them wards of court and then obtain orders in their welfare which would contradict the steps the Minister had taken.
- The children were made wards of court and their parents were sent to Harmondsworth detention centre, where they pleaded for their lives in Britain.
- The commission recommends making a person ineligible to serve as a trustee if they are under 18, a ward of court, adjudicated bankrupt, restricted from being a director of a company, or convicted of a crime.
- Made wards of court, their two children remained free.
- It had been necessary to make his younger children wards of court to prevent publicity.
- The reason being that she was once a ward of court herself, explains Pauline Collins, who plays her.
- All four children are now wards of court, so information about their whereabouts should be given to the Tipstaff, at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London.
- Two days later Flintshire County Council lodged an appeal to the Family Division of the High Court, sitting in Birmingham, to make the twins wards of court.

Phrasal Verbs

ward someone/something off

Prevent someone or something from harming or affecting one.
挡开
she put up a hand as if to ward him off
她举起一只手，好像要将他挡开。
Example sentencesExamples
- Practices included the use of talismans and incantations to ward off evil spirits, and ‘shamanic journeying’.
- Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits and prevent them from entering the house.
- These behaviors generally are intended to ward off harm to the person with OCD or others.
- So far the red peppers appear to be an easy, cost-effective means of warding off pachyderms without harming them, Osborn says.
- I suppose it all depends on what sort of harm you want to ward off.
- Armour is used to shield, but not solely to ward off physical harm.
- The archetypal souvenirs are ceramic tiles featuring the Evil Eye - a Turkish good luck charm designed to ward off evil spirits.
- The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride.
- Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea.
- In areas where apples were grown, it evolved into a ritual in which chants and dances were used to ward off evil spirits which it was believed would harm the trees.
Synonyms
fend off, drive back, keep off, stave off, repel, repulse, beat back, rout, put to flight, chase away
parry, avert, deflect, block, turn aside, defend oneself against, guard against, evade, avoid, dodge
avert, rebuff, rebut, keep at bay, keep at arm's length, fend off, stave off, oppose, resist, prevent, hinder, obstruct, impede, foil, frustrate, thwart, check, baulk, stop, head off

Derivatives

wardship

noun ˈwɔːdʃɪpˈwɔrdˌʃɪp

While the rules permit summary judgment in cases of Crown wardship, this remedy that provides for the permanent removal of a child from parents should be used in only the clearest of cases.
Example sentencesExamples
- Early in life he was placed under the wardship of a tutor in Marseilles.
- Usually granted in connection with wardships, the king's rights over the marriage of his tenants-in-chief had longer term implications for Edward III's ‘new nobility.’
- Walter Manny's landed interests had little or no connection with those of one Edmund Benstead, of whose heir he was granted the wardship and marriage in 1337.
- A supervision order, while less intrusive than Crown wardship would not adequately protect the children from either the father or the mother for reasons already discussed under issue No. 1.

Origin

Old English weard (in sense 5 of the noun, also 'body of guards'), weardian 'keep safe, guard', of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Northern French warde (noun), warder (verb) 'guard'.

guard from Late Middle English:
An Old Germanic element meaning ‘to watch, guard’ lies behind both guard and ward. Ward came into English from Old English weard ‘watchman, guard’. The sense ‘child protected by a guardian’ is late Middle English, and the sense of a hospital ward, where you are watched over by nurses or wardens, is mid 18th. Meanwhile, Germanic-speaking Franks had taken over areas of Europe that were mainly Romance speaking, and introduced the word into Romance. The w became a g(u) and the word became g(u)arde in Old French from which the g- forms were introduced into English. The g- and w- forms (found as alternatives in other words in modern French and English, as in the name William or Guillaume) are also found in warden (Middle English) and guardian (Late Middle English). Wardrobe (Late Middle English), a place where you look after clothes, has an alternative garderobe (Middle English). These were once interchangeable. However, garderobe is now mainly restricted to a term for a medieval lavatory. Wardrobe could have this sense in the past, for both words developed the sense of a small room where you could be private, and from there somewhere you could do something in private (compare privy under private).

Rhymes

aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored

Definition of ward in US English:

ward

nounwôrdwɔrd

1A separate room in a hospital, typically one allocated to a particular type of patient.
（尤指专为治疗某种病人而设的）病房，病室
a children's ward
儿童病房。
as modifier a ward nurse
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1988, the first geriatric ward was set up in the GH, but even then, geriatric medicine enjoyed very little priority.
- The need for the new predischarge ward arose in the context of attempting to address the shortage of bed accommodation in St. Luke's General Hospital.
- Joan, who has worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary since 1987 and on the children's surgical ward for the last nine years, said she was shocked but delighted by her windfall.
- On top of this, more than 23,000 people, many from the North Cotswolds, have signed petitions in support of the Battledown children's ward in Cheltenham.
- In Wang's ward in the Haematology Division, only half of patients with cancer may survive.
- Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand.
- Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era.
- The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.
- You will then be taken back to the hospital ward where nurses will continue to monitor you until you leave the hospital.
- Two studies have now been completed observing the care of terminally ill patients during their last six days of life in medical wards in two acute hospitals.
- Three wards within the Great Western hospital are expected to remain closed until the end of the week, including the Saturn and Neptune medical wards and the Kingfisher trauma ward.
- In the camp's acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril.
- The options are likely to include the closure of the 26-bed Battledown ward at Cheltenham in favour of a 46-bed ward at Gloucester.
- Yarmouk Hospital has one of the busiest emergency rooms and obstetrics wards in Baghdad.
- Last week I stood outside a local school with a petition, people were shocked to hear what was happening and had not heard anything about the threatening closure of the children's ward.
- The Reddys are running for St Teresa's cardiology ward for infants in Our lady's Hopsital for Sick Children in Crumlin
- Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
- Randomised controlled trial of usual care compared with intervention delivered on hospital wards by cardiac rehabilitation nurses.
- He spent several days in intensive care recovering from the procedure but was moved into a specialist liver ward on Thursday where medical staff are encouraging him to regain his mobility.
- In the Renaissance Hospital, clinics and wards will be based on patient groups rather than medical specialties (table on website).
Synonyms
room, compartment, department, unit, area
1. 1.1 One of the divisions of a prison.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Just come striding along the beach like a prison ward or something!
  The mother of Peter, a 23-year-old man whose currently in a maximum security prison ward in New South Wales.
  When they built the new prison a ward was set-aside for mentally impaired people, but even that seems to have become overcrowded.
2An administrative division of a city or borough that typically elects and is represented by a councilor or councilors.
（城市的）行政区，选举区
Example sentencesExamples
- Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election.
- It is the first time in 23 years that all three city councillors in the ward have belonged to the same party.
- We called the offices of city councillors representing various downtown wards, and their staff readily acknowledged the litter problem.
- The Madras Act IX of 1867 divided the city into eight wards, each represented by four Commissioners.
- ‘I want to work with community groups in the ward, the city and the region,’ he says.
- Coun Perkins represents Claremont ward and was elected last May.
- For a start, I would suggest that instead of having 52 or so councillors, that the number is cut down by half, with one councillor representing two wards.
- First there were ward officers - police officers responsible for a particular ward of the city who work with local communities to tackle local crime.
- Issues raised will be discussed by the relief road working group, made up of county councillors representing local wards, and the county council will enforce the changes.
- Councillor Royston Smith is deputy leader of Southampton City Council's Conservative group and represents the Harefield ward.
- Four years ago he joined Lancaster City Council to represent the Overton ward as a Morecambe Bay Independent.
- Membership of the committee is drawn from Bradford councillors representing wards in Keighley, Ilkley and surrounding villages in the Worth and Aire valleys.
- There are 54 councillors and all of us represent our wards and work hard for them.
- The proposals would create a York Central Borough seat, made up of nine inner City of York Council wards.
- Candidates for election will run in electoral districts, similar to city councillors' wards.
- The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen.
- The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward.
- Councillor David Wilde, who has represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995.
- Opposition to the closure of the Lister Baths at Featherstone contributed heavily to all three Labour councillors who had represented the ward losing their seats.
- But that does not explain why the BNP went on to take six more seats at last week's elections in Burnley, where most wards were electing just one councillor.
Synonyms
district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department, canton
1. 2.1 A territorial division of the Mormon Church presided over by a bishop.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Derek Cross fell in with the Mormons, rising through the ranks to become bishop of their ward.
  Bishop David Hamblin, the bishop for the ward, the Mormon church to which the Smart family belongs to.
3A person, usually a minor, under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court.
受监护人
Example sentencesExamples
- Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward.
Synonyms
dependant, charge, protégé, pupil, trainee, apprentice
1. 3.1archaic Guardianship or the state of being subject to a guardian.
  〈古〉监护；受监护的地位
  the ward and care of the Crown
  对国王的监护和照管。
4usually wardsAny of the internal ridges or bars in a lock which prevent the turning of any key which does not have grooves of corresponding form or size.
（锁内）齿凸
1. 4.1 The corresponding grooves in the bit of a key.
  （钥匙）齿凹
5archaic The action of keeping a lookout for danger.
〈古〉监视，看守
I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates
我看见他们正在看守其中的一扇大门。
6historical An area of ground enclosed by the encircling walls of a fortress or castle.
〈史〉城堡内空地，堡场
Example sentencesExamples
- Some very strongly fortified castles of this class have an additional wall set a short distance out from the main enceinte and concentric with it, the area between the two walls being termed the outer ward.
- The inner ward is a square enclosure with circular angle towers, with one bigger and separated by the walls forming the keep.
- The first step was the walling of the early Norman ring work but today only little part of this work survives on the north-west walls of the upper ward, the section facing the outer bailey was demolished.
- Near to this original house, on a chalk hill, William I built a castle, with a ward either side of a low motte.
7Fencing
A defensive position or motion.
Example sentencesExamples
- Simultaneously the Master shall raise his rapier into the open ward.
- The first illustration show the two fencers in a low or terza ward with rapiers crossed.

verbwôrdwɔrd

[with object]

1archaic Guard; protect.
〈古〉看守；保护
it was his duty to ward the king
他的职责是保卫国王。
2Admit (a patient) to a hospital ward.
接受（病人）入病房
Example sentencesExamples
- A 41-year-old security guard is warded in a stable condition at Port-of-Spain General Hospital after he was shot and stabbed 20 times.
- Gomez is warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital in a stable condition.
- One of Richardson's alleged accomplices, who was warded under police guard at the San Fernando General Hospital, was expected to face additional charges late yesterday.
- Both are warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Synonyms
admit to hospital, admit, take in, let in, accept, receive, give entry to

Phrases

ward of the court

A person, usually a minor or of unsound mind, for whom a guardian has been appointed by a court or who has become directly subject to the authority of that court.
受法院监护的青少年
Example sentencesExamples
- The commission recommends making a person ineligible to serve as a trustee if they are under 18, a ward of court, adjudicated bankrupt, restricted from being a director of a company, or convicted of a crime.
- It had been necessary to make his younger children wards of court to prevent publicity.
- At one time it was believed that the mere publication of information about a ward of court was contempt of court.
- The children were made wards of court and their parents were sent to Harmondsworth detention centre, where they pleaded for their lives in Britain.
- Two days later Flintshire County Council lodged an appeal to the Family Division of the High Court, sitting in Birmingham, to make the twins wards of court.
- The reason being that she was once a ward of court herself, explains Pauline Collins, who plays her.
- All four children are now wards of court, so information about their whereabouts should be given to the Tipstaff, at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London.
- Funds are held in trust by the courts for around 22,000 people, such as minors and wards of court, who have been awarded damages.
- What was sought to be done was to make them wards of court and then obtain orders in their welfare which would contradict the steps the Minister had taken.
- Made wards of court, their two children remained free.

Phrasal Verbs

ward someone/something off

Prevent someone or something from harming or affecting one.
挡开
she put up a hand as if to ward him off
她举起一只手，好像要将他挡开。
Example sentencesExamples
- Armour is used to shield, but not solely to ward off physical harm.
- Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits and prevent them from entering the house.
- These behaviors generally are intended to ward off harm to the person with OCD or others.
- I suppose it all depends on what sort of harm you want to ward off.
- Practices included the use of talismans and incantations to ward off evil spirits, and ‘shamanic journeying’.
- The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride.
- Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea.
- In areas where apples were grown, it evolved into a ritual in which chants and dances were used to ward off evil spirits which it was believed would harm the trees.
- The archetypal souvenirs are ceramic tiles featuring the Evil Eye - a Turkish good luck charm designed to ward off evil spirits.
- So far the red peppers appear to be an easy, cost-effective means of warding off pachyderms without harming them, Osborn says.
Synonyms
fend off, drive back, keep off, stave off, repel, repulse, beat back, rout, put to flight, chase away
parry, avert, deflect, block, turn aside, defend oneself against, guard against, evade, avoid, dodge
avert, rebuff, rebut, keep at bay, keep at arm's length, fend off, stave off, oppose, resist, prevent, hinder, obstruct, impede, foil, frustrate, thwart, check, baulk, stop, head off

Origin

Old English weard (in ward (sense 5 of the noun), also ‘body of guards’), weardian ‘keep safe, guard’, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Northern French warde (noun), warder (verb) ‘guard’.

词汇	ward
释义	Definition of ward in English: ward noun wɔːdwɔrd 1A separate room in a hospital, typically one allocated to a particular type of patient. （尤指专为治疗某种病人而设的）病房，病室 a children's ward 儿童病房。 Example sentencesExamples Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event. Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand. Joan, who has worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary since 1987 and on the children's surgical ward for the last nine years, said she was shocked but delighted by her windfall. The Reddys are running for St Teresa's cardiology ward for infants in Our lady's Hopsital for Sick Children in Crumlin In Wang's ward in the Haematology Division, only half of patients with cancer may survive. Three wards within the Great Western hospital are expected to remain closed until the end of the week, including the Saturn and Neptune medical wards and the Kingfisher trauma ward. Last week I stood outside a local school with a petition, people were shocked to hear what was happening and had not heard anything about the threatening closure of the children's ward. On top of this, more than 23,000 people, many from the North Cotswolds, have signed petitions in support of the Battledown children's ward in Cheltenham. The need for the new predischarge ward arose in the context of attempting to address the shortage of bed accommodation in St. Luke's General Hospital. Randomised controlled trial of usual care compared with intervention delivered on hospital wards by cardiac rehabilitation nurses. In the Renaissance Hospital, clinics and wards will be based on patient groups rather than medical specialties (table on website). You will then be taken back to the hospital ward where nurses will continue to monitor you until you leave the hospital. He spent several days in intensive care recovering from the procedure but was moved into a specialist liver ward on Thursday where medical staff are encouraging him to regain his mobility. The options are likely to include the closure of the 26-bed Battledown ward at Cheltenham in favour of a 46-bed ward at Gloucester. In the camp's acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril. In 1988, the first geriatric ward was set up in the GH, but even then, geriatric medicine enjoyed very little priority. Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era. Two studies have now been completed observing the care of terminally ill patients during their last six days of life in medical wards in two acute hospitals. The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable. Yarmouk Hospital has one of the busiest emergency rooms and obstetrics wards in Baghdad. Synonyms room, compartment, department, unit, area 2An administrative division of a city or borough that typically elects and is represented by a councillor or councillors. （城市的）行政区，选举区 the second most marginal ward in Westminster Example sentencesExamples We called the offices of city councillors representing various downtown wards, and their staff readily acknowledged the litter problem. The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen. Councillor Royston Smith is deputy leader of Southampton City Council's Conservative group and represents the Harefield ward. Councillor David Wilde, who has represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995. There are 54 councillors and all of us represent our wards and work hard for them. For a start, I would suggest that instead of having 52 or so councillors, that the number is cut down by half, with one councillor representing two wards. Issues raised will be discussed by the relief road working group, made up of county councillors representing local wards, and the county council will enforce the changes. The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward. The Madras Act IX of 1867 divided the city into eight wards, each represented by four Commissioners. First there were ward officers - police officers responsible for a particular ward of the city who work with local communities to tackle local crime. Candidates for election will run in electoral districts, similar to city councillors' wards. But that does not explain why the BNP went on to take six more seats at last week's elections in Burnley, where most wards were electing just one councillor. Four years ago he joined Lancaster City Council to represent the Overton ward as a Morecambe Bay Independent. Coun Perkins represents Claremont ward and was elected last May. It is the first time in 23 years that all three city councillors in the ward have belonged to the same party. The proposals would create a York Central Borough seat, made up of nine inner City of York Council wards. Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election. Membership of the committee is drawn from Bradford councillors representing wards in Keighley, Ilkley and surrounding villages in the Worth and Aire valleys. ‘I want to work with community groups in the ward, the city and the region,’ he says. Opposition to the closure of the Lister Baths at Featherstone contributed heavily to all three Labour councillors who had represented the ward losing their seats. Synonyms district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department, canton 3A child or young person under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court. 受监护人 for the last three years, the boy has been my ward Example sentencesExamples Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward. Synonyms dependant, charge, protégé, pupil, trainee, apprentice minor 3.1archaic mass noun The state of being in the care of a guardian. 〈古〉监护；受监护的地位 the ward and care of the Crown 对国王的监护和照管。 4usually wardsAny of the internal ridges or bars in a lock which prevent the turning of any key which does not have grooves of corresponding form or size. （锁内）齿凸 4.1 The grooves in the bit of a key that correspond to the wards in a lock. 5archaic mass noun The action of keeping a lookout for danger. 〈古〉监视，看守 I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates 我看见他们正在看守其中的一扇大门。 6historical An area of ground enclosed by the encircling walls of a fortress or castle. 〈史〉城堡内空地，堡场 Example sentencesExamples Some very strongly fortified castles of this class have an additional wall set a short distance out from the main enceinte and concentric with it, the area between the two walls being termed the outer ward. The inner ward is a square enclosure with circular angle towers, with one bigger and separated by the walls forming the keep. Near to this original house, on a chalk hill, William I built a castle, with a ward either side of a low motte. The first step was the walling of the early Norman ring work but today only little part of this work survives on the north-west walls of the upper ward, the section facing the outer bailey was demolished. verb wɔːdwɔrd [with object] 1Admit (a patient) to a hospital ward. 接受（病人）入病房 the last of the accident victims was warded Example sentencesExamples A 41-year-old security guard is warded in a stable condition at Port-of-Spain General Hospital after he was shot and stabbed 20 times. Both are warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital. One of Richardson's alleged accomplices, who was warded under police guard at the San Fernando General Hospital, was expected to face additional charges late yesterday. Gomez is warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital in a stable condition. Synonyms admit to hospital, admit, take in, let in, accept, receive, give entry to 2archaic Guard; protect. 〈古〉看守；保护 it was his duty to ward the king 他的职责是保卫国王。 Phrases ward of court A child or young person for whom a guardian has been appointed by the Court of Chancery or who has become directly subject to the authority of that court. 受法院监护的青少年 Example sentencesExamples At one time it was believed that the mere publication of information about a ward of court was contempt of court. Funds are held in trust by the courts for around 22,000 people, such as minors and wards of court, who have been awarded damages. What was sought to be done was to make them wards of court and then obtain orders in their welfare which would contradict the steps the Minister had taken. The children were made wards of court and their parents were sent to Harmondsworth detention centre, where they pleaded for their lives in Britain. The commission recommends making a person ineligible to serve as a trustee if they are under 18, a ward of court, adjudicated bankrupt, restricted from being a director of a company, or convicted of a crime. Made wards of court, their two children remained free. It had been necessary to make his younger children wards of court to prevent publicity. The reason being that she was once a ward of court herself, explains Pauline Collins, who plays her. All four children are now wards of court, so information about their whereabouts should be given to the Tipstaff, at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London. Two days later Flintshire County Council lodged an appeal to the Family Division of the High Court, sitting in Birmingham, to make the twins wards of court. Phrasal Verbs ward someone/something off Prevent someone or something from harming or affecting one. 挡开 she put up a hand as if to ward him off 她举起一只手，好像要将他挡开。 Example sentencesExamples Practices included the use of talismans and incantations to ward off evil spirits, and ‘shamanic journeying’. Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits and prevent them from entering the house. These behaviors generally are intended to ward off harm to the person with OCD or others. So far the red peppers appear to be an easy, cost-effective means of warding off pachyderms without harming them, Osborn says. I suppose it all depends on what sort of harm you want to ward off. Armour is used to shield, but not solely to ward off physical harm. The archetypal souvenirs are ceramic tiles featuring the Evil Eye - a Turkish good luck charm designed to ward off evil spirits. The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride. Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea. In areas where apples were grown, it evolved into a ritual in which chants and dances were used to ward off evil spirits which it was believed would harm the trees. Synonyms fend off, drive back, keep off, stave off, repel, repulse, beat back, rout, put to flight, chase away parry, avert, deflect, block, turn aside, defend oneself against, guard against, evade, avoid, dodge avert, rebuff, rebut, keep at bay, keep at arm's length, fend off, stave off, oppose, resist, prevent, hinder, obstruct, impede, foil, frustrate, thwart, check, baulk, stop, head off Derivatives wardship noun ˈwɔːdʃɪpˈwɔrdˌʃɪp While the rules permit summary judgment in cases of Crown wardship, this remedy that provides for the permanent removal of a child from parents should be used in only the clearest of cases. Example sentencesExamples Early in life he was placed under the wardship of a tutor in Marseilles. Usually granted in connection with wardships, the king's rights over the marriage of his tenants-in-chief had longer term implications for Edward III's ‘new nobility.’ Walter Manny's landed interests had little or no connection with those of one Edmund Benstead, of whose heir he was granted the wardship and marriage in 1337. A supervision order, while less intrusive than Crown wardship would not adequately protect the children from either the father or the mother for reasons already discussed under issue No. 1. Origin Old English weard (in sense 5 of the noun, also 'body of guards'), weardian 'keep safe, guard', of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Northern French warde (noun), warder (verb) 'guard'. guard from Late Middle English: An Old Germanic element meaning ‘to watch, guard’ lies behind both guard and ward. Ward came into English from Old English weard ‘watchman, guard’. The sense ‘child protected by a guardian’ is late Middle English, and the sense of a hospital ward, where you are watched over by nurses or wardens, is mid 18th. Meanwhile, Germanic-speaking Franks had taken over areas of Europe that were mainly Romance speaking, and introduced the word into Romance. The w became a g(u) and the word became g(u)arde in Old French from which the g- forms were introduced into English. The g- and w- forms (found as alternatives in other words in modern French and English, as in the name William or Guillaume) are also found in warden (Middle English) and guardian (Late Middle English). Wardrobe (Late Middle English), a place where you look after clothes, has an alternative garderobe (Middle English). These were once interchangeable. However, garderobe is now mainly restricted to a term for a medieval lavatory. Wardrobe could have this sense in the past, for both words developed the sense of a small room where you could be private, and from there somewhere you could do something in private (compare privy under private). Rhymes aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of ward in US English: ward nounwôrdwɔrd 1A separate room in a hospital, typically one allocated to a particular type of patient. （尤指专为治疗某种病人而设的）病房，病室 a children's ward 儿童病房。 as modifier a ward nurse Example sentencesExamples In 1988, the first geriatric ward was set up in the GH, but even then, geriatric medicine enjoyed very little priority. The need for the new predischarge ward arose in the context of attempting to address the shortage of bed accommodation in St. Luke's General Hospital. Joan, who has worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary since 1987 and on the children's surgical ward for the last nine years, said she was shocked but delighted by her windfall. On top of this, more than 23,000 people, many from the North Cotswolds, have signed petitions in support of the Battledown children's ward in Cheltenham. In Wang's ward in the Haematology Division, only half of patients with cancer may survive. Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand. Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era. The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable. You will then be taken back to the hospital ward where nurses will continue to monitor you until you leave the hospital. Two studies have now been completed observing the care of terminally ill patients during their last six days of life in medical wards in two acute hospitals. Three wards within the Great Western hospital are expected to remain closed until the end of the week, including the Saturn and Neptune medical wards and the Kingfisher trauma ward. In the camp's acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril. The options are likely to include the closure of the 26-bed Battledown ward at Cheltenham in favour of a 46-bed ward at Gloucester. Yarmouk Hospital has one of the busiest emergency rooms and obstetrics wards in Baghdad. Last week I stood outside a local school with a petition, people were shocked to hear what was happening and had not heard anything about the threatening closure of the children's ward. The Reddys are running for St Teresa's cardiology ward for infants in Our lady's Hopsital for Sick Children in Crumlin Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event. Randomised controlled trial of usual care compared with intervention delivered on hospital wards by cardiac rehabilitation nurses. He spent several days in intensive care recovering from the procedure but was moved into a specialist liver ward on Thursday where medical staff are encouraging him to regain his mobility. In the Renaissance Hospital, clinics and wards will be based on patient groups rather than medical specialties (table on website). Synonyms room, compartment, department, unit, area 1.1 One of the divisions of a prison. Example sentencesExamples Just come striding along the beach like a prison ward or something! The mother of Peter, a 23-year-old man whose currently in a maximum security prison ward in New South Wales. When they built the new prison a ward was set-aside for mentally impaired people, but even that seems to have become overcrowded. 2An administrative division of a city or borough that typically elects and is represented by a councilor or councilors. （城市的）行政区，选举区 Example sentencesExamples Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election. It is the first time in 23 years that all three city councillors in the ward have belonged to the same party. We called the offices of city councillors representing various downtown wards, and their staff readily acknowledged the litter problem. The Madras Act IX of 1867 divided the city into eight wards, each represented by four Commissioners. ‘I want to work with community groups in the ward, the city and the region,’ he says. Coun Perkins represents Claremont ward and was elected last May. For a start, I would suggest that instead of having 52 or so councillors, that the number is cut down by half, with one councillor representing two wards. First there were ward officers - police officers responsible for a particular ward of the city who work with local communities to tackle local crime. Issues raised will be discussed by the relief road working group, made up of county councillors representing local wards, and the county council will enforce the changes. Councillor Royston Smith is deputy leader of Southampton City Council's Conservative group and represents the Harefield ward. Four years ago he joined Lancaster City Council to represent the Overton ward as a Morecambe Bay Independent. Membership of the committee is drawn from Bradford councillors representing wards in Keighley, Ilkley and surrounding villages in the Worth and Aire valleys. There are 54 councillors and all of us represent our wards and work hard for them. The proposals would create a York Central Borough seat, made up of nine inner City of York Council wards. Candidates for election will run in electoral districts, similar to city councillors' wards. The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen. The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward. Councillor David Wilde, who has represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995. Opposition to the closure of the Lister Baths at Featherstone contributed heavily to all three Labour councillors who had represented the ward losing their seats. But that does not explain why the BNP went on to take six more seats at last week's elections in Burnley, where most wards were electing just one councillor. Synonyms district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department, canton 2.1 A territorial division of the Mormon Church presided over by a bishop. Example sentencesExamples Derek Cross fell in with the Mormons, rising through the ranks to become bishop of their ward. Bishop David Hamblin, the bishop for the ward, the Mormon church to which the Smart family belongs to. 3A person, usually a minor, under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court. 受监护人 Example sentencesExamples Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward. Synonyms dependant, charge, protégé, pupil, trainee, apprentice 3.1archaic Guardianship or the state of being subject to a guardian. 〈古〉监护；受监护的地位 the ward and care of the Crown 对国王的监护和照管。 4usually wardsAny of the internal ridges or bars in a lock which prevent the turning of any key which does not have grooves of corresponding form or size. （锁内）齿凸 4.1 The corresponding grooves in the bit of a key. （钥匙）齿凹 5archaic The action of keeping a lookout for danger. 〈古〉监视，看守 I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates 我看见他们正在看守其中的一扇大门。 6historical An area of ground enclosed by the encircling walls of a fortress or castle. 〈史〉城堡内空地，堡场 Example sentencesExamples Some very strongly fortified castles of this class have an additional wall set a short distance out from the main enceinte and concentric with it, the area between the two walls being termed the outer ward. The inner ward is a square enclosure with circular angle towers, with one bigger and separated by the walls forming the keep. The first step was the walling of the early Norman ring work but today only little part of this work survives on the north-west walls of the upper ward, the section facing the outer bailey was demolished. Near to this original house, on a chalk hill, William I built a castle, with a ward either side of a low motte. 7Fencing A defensive position or motion. Example sentencesExamples Simultaneously the Master shall raise his rapier into the open ward. The first illustration show the two fencers in a low or terza ward with rapiers crossed. verbwôrdwɔrd [with object] 1archaic Guard; protect. 〈古〉看守；保护 it was his duty to ward the king 他的职责是保卫国王。 2Admit (a patient) to a hospital ward. 接受（病人）入病房 Example sentencesExamples A 41-year-old security guard is warded in a stable condition at Port-of-Spain General Hospital after he was shot and stabbed 20 times. Gomez is warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital in a stable condition. One of Richardson's alleged accomplices, who was warded under police guard at the San Fernando General Hospital, was expected to face additional charges late yesterday. Both are warded at Port-of-Spain General Hospital. Synonyms admit to hospital, admit, take in, let in, accept, receive, give entry to Phrases ward of the court A person, usually a minor or of unsound mind, for whom a guardian has been appointed by a court or who has become directly subject to the authority of that court. 受法院监护的青少年 Example sentencesExamples The commission recommends making a person ineligible to serve as a trustee if they are under 18, a ward of court, adjudicated bankrupt, restricted from being a director of a company, or convicted of a crime. It had been necessary to make his younger children wards of court to prevent publicity. At one time it was believed that the mere publication of information about a ward of court was contempt of court. The children were made wards of court and their parents were sent to Harmondsworth detention centre, where they pleaded for their lives in Britain. Two days later Flintshire County Council lodged an appeal to the Family Division of the High Court, sitting in Birmingham, to make the twins wards of court. The reason being that she was once a ward of court herself, explains Pauline Collins, who plays her. All four children are now wards of court, so information about their whereabouts should be given to the Tipstaff, at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London. Funds are held in trust by the courts for around 22,000 people, such as minors and wards of court, who have been awarded damages. What was sought to be done was to make them wards of court and then obtain orders in their welfare which would contradict the steps the Minister had taken. Made wards of court, their two children remained free. Phrasal Verbs ward someone/something off Prevent someone or something from harming or affecting one. 挡开 she put up a hand as if to ward him off 她举起一只手，好像要将他挡开。 Example sentencesExamples Armour is used to shield, but not solely to ward off physical harm. Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits and prevent them from entering the house. These behaviors generally are intended to ward off harm to the person with OCD or others. I suppose it all depends on what sort of harm you want to ward off. Practices included the use of talismans and incantations to ward off evil spirits, and ‘shamanic journeying’. The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride. Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea. In areas where apples were grown, it evolved into a ritual in which chants and dances were used to ward off evil spirits which it was believed would harm the trees. The archetypal souvenirs are ceramic tiles featuring the Evil Eye - a Turkish good luck charm designed to ward off evil spirits. So far the red peppers appear to be an easy, cost-effective means of warding off pachyderms without harming them, Osborn says. Synonyms fend off, drive back, keep off, stave off, repel, repulse, beat back, rout, put to flight, chase away parry, avert, deflect, block, turn aside, defend oneself against, guard against, evade, avoid, dodge avert, rebuff, rebut, keep at bay, keep at arm's length, fend off, stave off, oppose, resist, prevent, hinder, obstruct, impede, foil, frustrate, thwart, check, baulk, stop, head off Origin Old English weard (in ward (sense 5 of the noun), also ‘body of guards’), weardian ‘keep safe, guard’, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Northern French warde (noun), warder (verb) ‘guard’. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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