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PROTECTOR
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Traducere în limba română
protector substantiv
1. protector, ocrotitor, operator; patron; Mecena (al artelor etc.).
2. (ist. Angliei) regent.
3. (ist. Angliei) Protector (şi Lord Protector) Protector (titlul lui Oliver Cromwell şi al fiului său Richard).
4. (tehn.) dispozitiv de siguranţă (al unei maşini, al unui aparat); piedică de siguranţă.
5. (tehn.) protector, apărătoare.
6. (electr.) paratrăsnet.
7. (electr.) fuzibil; disjunctor.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Who wants a protector?
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred. I felt myself masculine, the protector of the weak, the fighting male.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
If you have any lingering thought that I could envy the happiness you will confer; that I could not resign you to a dearer protector, of your own choosing; that I could not, from my removed place, be a contented witness of your joy; dismiss it, for I don't deserve it!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The gentle and domestic manners it described, combined with lofty sentiments and feelings, which had for their object something out of self, accorded well with my experience among my protectors and with the wants which were for ever alive in my own bosom.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)