An abbreviation of Protestant

shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage, To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to, use tariffs to favor domestic industry, transitive To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety, To swing at a pitch near (home plate) in order to avoid being called out on strikes, To keep from being curtailed or exposed to risk

kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss, defended, computing, of a variable, etc. Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of protect.

Present participle of protect, adjective_ shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort

the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition, The process of keeping (something or someone) safe, A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive, (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful, Adapted or intended to afford protection, noun_ Something that protects, That which protects; something adapted to afford protection, A condom

A trade-name for a dried preparation which consists essentially of the casein of milk_ sold as a food material, any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes, biochemistry Any of numerous large, complex naturally-produced molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, in which the amino acid groups are held together by peptide bonds

Plural form of protein

To promise or affirm earnestly, as after being doubted, To participate in a public demonstration in opposition to something, To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow, transitive verb_ To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to, To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display, To object to, verb_ utter words of protest, express opposition through action or words, affirm or avow formally or solemnly, noun_ the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval, a formal and solemn declaration of objection, A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary

A preliminary draft or record of a transaction, In the parts of the United States acquired from Mexico, the original record of the transfer of land, An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation, intransitive verb_ To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols, To form or issue protocols, transitive verb_ To make a protocol of,