Guard

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Contents 1 A man who guards 2 Other uses to mean one person 3 Organizations 3.1 Organizations: army-type 3.2 Organizations: police-type 3.3 Elite military forces which guard a head of state 3.4 The same, but expanded and also used for other duties 3.5 Other military or paramilitary bodies 3.6 Other military uses 4 Sports 5 Components 6 Others

A guard may be a person, an organisation, or a component. It may be a person who looks after the safety of people or property, and/or make sure prisoners do not escape. It may also be a part of the military.

[edit] A man who guards

This is the original type of meaning.

• security guard
• bodyguard
• A prison officer (correctional officer), commonly - and mistakenly - referred to as a guard.

This usage is an origin of some English man's names: Anglo-Saxon Ēad-weard = "fortunate guard" (Edward); Here-weard = "army guard" (Hereward).

[edit] Other uses to mean one person

• A railway employee who (normally) travels in the last vehicle of a train and is responsible for the safety of the train.

[edit] Organizations

See also: List of protective service agencies

[edit] Organizations: army-type

• Border Guard
• Immortal Guards
• Republican Guard
• Yeomen of the Guard
• Iranian Imperial Guard
• Royal Guard
• Russian Guards

[edit] Organizations: police-type

• National Guard
• Coast Guard
• Guards A Jewish police force set up in the British Mandate of Palestine.
• The police force of Eire is called the Gardai.

[edit] Elite military forces which guard a head of state

• Praetorian Guard
• Varangian Guard
• Swiss Guard
• Imperial Guard of Japan
• Guards (Russia), a kind of Russian military.
• Russian Imperial Guard

[edit] The same, but expanded and also used for other duties

• Persian Immortals
• The Royal Horse Guards and Foot Guards Regiments of the Household Division of the Commonwealth armies
• The Napoleon's Imperial Guard
• The Iraqi Republican Guard

[edit] Other military or paramilitary bodies

• Red Guard
• White Guard
• Home Guard

[edit] Other military uses

• Vanguard (or advanced guard) and Rearguard or rear guard of an army

[edit] Sports

A term used in sports such as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo or Submission Wrestling

• guard (American football)
• guard (basketball)
• guard (grappling), a wrestling position
• a defensive position in historical fencing, see ward (fencing)

[edit] Components

• The guard of a bladed weapon. See hilt or Guard (weapon).
• A piece on a machine, that stops people's hands etc from getting inside and getting injured, or keeps foreign bodies out.

[edit] Others

• GUARD is a name for 121.5 MHz, an emergency frequency used by aircraft, see International Air Distress.
• Guard (computing), a programming language expression that directs program execution.