Aegis

Definitions: Aegis

Aegis

Noun

1. Kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council".

2. Armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aegis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Etymology: AEgis \[AE]"gis\, noun. [Latin expression aegis, from the Greek expression goat skin, shield, goat, or from to rush.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

AEGIS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Aegis

Defense

Bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako; (dress).

Crosswords: Aegis

Dutch (aegis, protection, shield).

References

• Aegis Communications Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aegis Consumer Funding Group, Inc. (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aegis Espana S.A: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aegis Group PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aegis Realty, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• AEGIS COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser (reference)

• Aegis Handbook (reference)

• AEGIS REALTY, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Morningstar Mutual Fund Report: Aegis Value [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Aegis (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Aegis [US] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

At least one Medicare program, the S/HMO's, is providing some, albeit modest, coverage for LTC. Such a step represents a cross-subsidy for Medicaid because at least some of the care provided under this aegis otherwise might have to be covered by the Medicaid program. (references)

Children

Portugal

The Commission operates under the aegis of the High Commissioner for the Promotion of Equality and of the Family and includes representatives from the Ministries of Justice, Health, Education, and Solidarity, as well as from leading NGO's. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Under the aegis of the NCM, talks were proposed to discuss conversions, the issue of a "swadeshi" (i.e. indigenous) church, and attacks on Christians. (references)

Burma

However, select categories of applicants, such as foreign human rights advocates, journalists, and political figures are denied entry visas regularly unless traveling under the aegis of a sponsor acceptable to the Government and for purposes approved by the Government. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

A medical school also became operational in 2000 under the aegis of the University of Mauritius. (references)

France

A 1993 law established a Central Service for the Prevention of Corruption under the aegis of the Ministry of Justice. (references)

Brazil

From 1946 until 1995, the telecommunications sector in Brazil was operated under the aegis of the Brazilian Government. (references)

Human Rights

Laos

A sporadically active system of neighborhood and workplace committees under the aegis of the popular front organizations plays a similar monitoring role. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

The U.S. government was a strong supporter of the multiparty political negotiations, which, under the aegis of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, produced the historic Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998. (references)

Political Rights

Haiti

The Convergence has attempted to present a unified opposition front in response to the controversial legislative and presidential elections of 2000. The Government and the Democratic Convergence have conducted intermittent negotiations under the aegis of the OAS, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and local civil society groups. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Many U.S. companies with the intention to invest will import equipment, vehicles, and other goods under the aegis of authorized capital (or statutory fund), which will be exempt from customs duties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "aegis": under the aegis of. Additional references.

Albanian

mbrojtje (advocacy, apology, assertion, Buckler, championship, conservation, cover, defence, defense, keeping, patronage, protection, rampart, safeguard, security, tutelage, umbrella), mbështetje (adhesion, aliment, alimentation, alimony, backup, foundation, furtherance, pillar, promotion, purchase, recourse, stock, support, sustenance, sustention, tower). (various references)

Arabic 

‏درع (armature, armor, armor plate, armored, armour, armour plate, armoured, corset, cuirass, hauberk, mail, shield). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щит (plate, riddle, screen, shield), закрила (cover, guardianship, keeping, palladium, protection, shadow, shield), егида, броня (armature, armor plate, armour, armour plate, bumper, corselet, cuirass, dashboard, fender, mail, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, shell, splash-board, test), покровителство (auspices, favour, patronage, protection, protectorship, shadow). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�持 (Backed, Bolstered, Bolstering, egis, Seconded, Seconding, Sided, support, supported, supporting). (various references)

Czech

záštita (auspices, protection). (various references)

Dutch

aegis (protection, shield), aegide (protection, shield), schild (buckle, carapace, continental shield, craton, protection, shell, shield, shield block, shielding, sign-board), bescherming (auspices, patronage, protection, safety precaution, shelter, shield, shielding, support). (various references)

Farsi 

پرتو (Beam, Radiance, Ray, Rayon, Shaft), سپر (Buffer, Fence, Parapet, Shield), ظل (Shadow). (various references)

French

égide. (various references)

German

ägide (patronage). (various references)

Greek 

σκέπη (omentum, shelter), προστασία (auspice, auspices, conservation, defence, internment, patronage, prevention, prophylaxis, protection, safeguard, segregation, shield, shielding, sponsorship), αιγίσ (auspices, shield). (various references)

Hungarian

védelem (cover, defence, defense, egis, evidence for the defence, protection, safeguard, save, shelter, shield, shielding, vindication). (various references)

Indonesian

perlindungan (armature, patronage, protection). (various references)

Italian

egida (egis). (various references)

Manx

skian (baffle, mudguard, pinion, wing), co-ymmyrkey (convect, convection). (various references)

Pig Latin

aegisay

Portuguese

égide (egis). (various references)

Romanian

scut (Buckler, escutcheon, palladium, screen, shield), egidã (shield). (various references)

Russian 

эгида. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaštita (advocacy, care, defence, lee, patronage, protection, safeguard), okrilje (lee, protection, wing), egida. (various references)

Spanish

tutela (egis, guardianship, tutelage, ward, wardship), égida (egis). (various references)

Swedish

skydd (boot, Buckler, cover, coverings, covert, coverture, defence, defense, guard, guards, Harbor, harbour, hedge, hood, housing, indemnity, protection, refuge, safeguard, safekeeping, screen, shelter, shield), egid. (various references)

Turkish

siper (barricade, bulwark, casemate, dike, dyke, entrenchment, foxhole, outwork, parapet, rampart, screen, shelter, shield, splasher, trench), koruma (asylum, auspices, bodyguard, conservancy, conservation, convoy, covering, custody, defending, defense, escort, Favor, favour, guard, guarding, indemnity, keeping, lifeguard, maintenance, patronage, preservation, protection, protective, retention, safeguard, safekeeping, shade, shadow, shield, tutelage, umbrella), kalkan (Buckler, mantlet, outgoing, shield, splasher, turbot). (various references)

Ukranian 

захист (advocacy, answer, apology, bulwark, championship, defence, defense, egis, maintenance, palladium, panoply, protection, shield, ward), егіда (egis), підтримка (aliment, alimentation, backing, boost, cheer, crutch, egis, espousal, favour, pick me up, prop, sanction, smiles, sponsorship, support, sustention, vindication), протегування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự che chở (favor, favour, protection, protectiveness, safe keeping), sự bảo vệ (defence, guardianship, maintenance, protection, protectiveness, rampart, safe keeping), sự bảo hộ (auspice, protection, protectiveness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "aegis": aegises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aegis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adegasn, aedis, aeegas, Aefg, aega, Aegae, aeggs, aegies, aegisx, aegisy, aego, aeris, Aetius, aevi, ageas, agees, ageis, aggies, Aggis, Aggiss, Agias, agies, Agis, Aigai, algies, anefis, aneis, Asegid, Avedis, Eagil, negys, qegs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ages, egis, gaes, gies, sage.

-2 letters: age, ais, gae, gas, gie, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ai, as, es, is, si.

+1 letter: ageism, ageist, aggies, easing, gabies, gawsie, geisha, images, ligase, sagier, silage, visage.

+2 letters: aegises, ageings, ageisms, ageists, agisted, agnizes, agonies, agonise, aiglets, aigrets, assegai, augites, baggies, cagiest, ceasing, degamis, earings, earwigs, easting, eatings, enigmas, erasing, feasing, gainers, gaiters, gallies, gamiest, gamines, gassier, gaudies, gawkies, geishas, ghazies, gisarme, glaires, glaives, glassie, goalies, gravies, guineas, hegaris, hegiras, hoagies, imagers, imagoes, incages, ingates, ingesta, isagoge, leasing, ligases, ligates, linages, magpies, milages, mirages, misgave, mispage, pipages, raggies, reagins, regains, reginas, rivages, sabeing, saggier, sagiest, seagirt, sealing, seaming, searing, seating, seringa, sigmate, signage, silages, sinkage, soilage, spaeing, spinage, staggie, stagier, swaggie, teasing, triages, visaged, visages.

+3 letters: abridges, agatizes, agencies, agenesia, agenesis, agenizes, aginners, agitates, agonised, agonises, agonizes, agouties, agrestic, aligners, anergias, anergies, angaries, anginose, angriest, antigens, arginase, argosies, argufies, armigers, assegais, assigned, assignee, assigner, astringe, auguries, baggiest, bagpipes, beadings, bearings, beatings, begonias, bigamies, bigheads, biogases, brigades, caginess, cigarets, coinages, creasing, dealings, deashing, debasing, deraigns, diagnose, digamies, disagree, disgrace, eanlings, earnings, earrings, eastings, egalites, elapsing, elegiacs, encasing, engrails, engrains, ensilage, envisage, epigrams, ergastic, escaping, esophagi, essaying, estating, eugenias, eulogias, fatigues, feasting, finagles, foliages, frigates, gabbiest, gadflies, gahnites, gaieties, gainless, galaxies, galilees, galleins, gambiers, gaminess, gammiest, ganister, gantries, gappiest, garigues, garpikes, gasalier, gaselier, gasified, gasifier, gasifies, gasolier, gasoline, gassiest, gaudiest, gauziest, gawkiest, gayeties, gearings, gelatins, gelsemia, genipaps, genitals, gentians, geotaxis, gesneria, gestical, gharries, giantess, giraffes, girasole, gisarmes, glaciers, glacises, gladiest, glariest, glassier, glassies, glassine, glaziers, glaziest, glissade, graciles, gradines, grainers, granites, grannies, grapiest, grassier, graziers, greasier, greasily, greasing, gremials, grimaces, guanines, gypseian, haggises, hagrides, headings, healings, hearings, hearsing, illegals, imagines, ingrates, isagoges, jaggiest, jigsawed, latigoes, leadings, leanings, leashing, leasings, leavings, legacies, legalise, legalism, legalist, lineages, linkages, magister, magnesia, magnesic, mangiest, meanings, medigaps, megabits, megahits, migrates, mileages, millages, mintages, misagent, misbegan, misgauge, misgrade, mispaged, mispages, misusage, naggiest, nargiles, oogamies, organise, otalgies, paganise, pillages, pipeages, pleasing, primages, ragtimes, rangiest, readings, realigns, reassign, reimages, resawing, resaying, sabering, saggiest, sanguine, sauteing, seagoing, seatings, sedating, semigala, seraglio, seringas, shaggier, sheafing, shealing, shearing, sheaving, shigella, signages, signaled, signaler, singable, sinkages, slaggier, slangier, sleaving, slippage, smearing, snaggier, snaglike, sneaking, sneaping, soilages, spaeings, speaking, speaning, spearing, spillage, spinages, spoilage, staggier, staggies, stagiest, steading, stealing, steaming, sterigma, sugarier, swaggies, swearing, sweating, synergia, tangiest, tillages, tziganes, unitages, vagaries, veganism, vestigia, villages, vinegars, vintages, viragoes, virgates, weigelas, windages, yealings, yeasting.

+4 letters: abridgers, abseiling, absenting, accessing, agenesias, agentings, agentives, agentries, aggrieves, agilities, agiotages, agonistes, aigrettes, aiguilles, algerines, algicides, alginates, alienages, allergies, allergins, allergist, almsgiver, alongside, ambergris, amidogens, anagogies, analgesia, analgesic, analogies, angelfish, angelicas, anglesite, anglicise, angriness, anguished, anguishes, answering, antigenes, apogamies, apologies, apologise, appeasing, arginases, arginines, argufiers, armigeros, arpeggios, arresting, ascending, ashlering, aspersing, assagaied, assegaied, assenting, asserting, assessing, assignees, assigners, astringed, astringes, athelings, attesting, badinages, bagginess, bagpipers, basseting, beastings, beggaries, beshaming, bigarades, biogasses, birdcages, blindages, braggiest, breakings, breasting, cagelings, caressing, carriages, caseating, casefying, casketing, castigate, chasseing, chigetais, cleansing, clearings, cogitates, cousinage, coxalgies, craggiest, cribbages, deceasing, decigrams, degassing, demasting, desalting, desanding, designate, diagnosed, diagnoses, diallages, dialogers, dialogues, diplegias, disagreed, disagrees, discharge, diseasing, disengage, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, disparage, disregard, divagates, draggiest, draglines, drainages, driftages, easygoing, egomanias, egyptians, emigrants, emigrates, encashing, enchasing, ensilaged, ensilages, enslaving, ensnaring, envisaged, envisages, epigraphs, equipages, escarping, espionage, estraying, exogamies, farseeing, fastening, ferriages, figeaters, filagrees, finaglers, firefangs, flaggiest, fruitages, fumigates, fustigate, gainliest, gainsayer, galabiehs, galenites, gallerias, galleries, gallflies, galvanise, gangliest, ganisters, gannister, gantlines, gaposises, gardenias, garfishes, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gasaliers, gaseliers, gasifiers, gasoliers, gasolines, gassiness, gauderies, gaudiness, gauntries, gawkiness, gearshift, gelatines, gelations, geminates, geranials, geraniols, geraniums, gerardias, gesneriad, gestating, gestation, ghastlier, giftwares, gigabytes, giltheads, girasoles, giveaways, givebacks, glaciates, gladliest, glairiest, glamorise, glassiest, glassines, gleamiest, gleanings, gliadines, glissaded, glissader, glissades, globalise, gnarliest, gnathites, gnattiest, gouramies, grabbiest, gradients, graecizes, grainiest, gramaries, granaries, grandiose, grandsire, graperies, graphites, grapiness, graplines, grassiest, grasslike, gratifies, gratinees, graveside, gravities, greasiest, grievants, grillades, grillages, grimacers, grisaille, guanosine, guaranies, guerillas, guidances, guideways, hagfishes, hangfires, hanseling, hastening, heritages, ibogaines, ideograms, imageries, imaginers, indagates, ingathers, instigate, integrals, irrigates, isogamete, isogamies, jaggaries, jaggeries, jangliest, kashering, lacewings, lawgivers, layerings, learnings, legalised, legalises, legalisms, legalists, legalizes, legations, legislate, levigates, liftgates, ligaments, ligatures, litharges, litigates, magazines, magisters, magnesian, magnesias, magnesite, magnesium, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, magnifies, maligners, malingers, mangabies, manginess, marriages, mastering, measuring, megaliths, megillahs, messaging, midranges, migraines, misagents, mischarge, miseating, misgauged, misgauges, misgraded, misgrades, mismanage, misusages, mitigates, mucilages, naethings, narghiles, nargilehs, navigates, negations, negatives, obligates, oesophagi, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organizes, ossifrage, paganised, paganises, paganizes, paginates, panelings, parridges, philabegs, pillagers, pilotages, pleadings, preassign, presaging, progerias, pupilages, quaggiest, quagmires, ranginess, ravelings, ravenings, ravigotes, realising, reasoning, reassigns, recasting, regainers, regionals, registrar, rehashing, relapsing, releasing, repassing, repasting, reraising, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reseating, reshaping, reshaving, reslating, resoaking, respacing, respading, restaging, restating, retasting, rewashing, sacrilege, saddening, safelight, safetying, saggering, sagittate, salesgirl, salpinges, sanguines, sapogenin, saxifrage, scraggier, scraighed, screaking, screaming, scrimmage, seafaring, searching, searingly, seasoning, seesawing, sensating, seraglios, seriating, serigraph, serrating, shaggiest, shaveling, shealings, shearings, shearling, sheathing, shigellae, shigellas, shrinkage, signalers, signalise, signalize, signalled, signaller, signalmen, signature, slaggiest, slangiest, slavering, slippages, sloganize, snaggiest, spaghetti, spanglier, speakings, spillages, spoilages, spreading, squeaking, squealing, stagelike, staggiest, staginess, steadings, steadying, stealings, sterigmas, stingaree, strategic, streaking, streaming, sugariest, synergias, syngamies, tailgates, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teachings, teaseling, teasingly, thirlages, tragedies, trapesing, triangles, twangiest, umangites, umpirages, unceasing, unsealing, unseaming, unseating, veganisms, verbiages, vestigial, vicarages, vicinages, vigesimal, villagers, vintagers, vulgarise, waggeries, wakenings, waterings, weaklings, weanlings, weaseling, weigelias, wigmakers, wineglass, yeanlings, yearlings, yearnings.

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