Defense vs. Offense
Difference Between Defense and Offense
Defense➦
The act of defending against attack, danger, or injury.
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Offense➦
The act of causing anger, resentment, displeasure, or affront.
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Defense➦
A means or method of defending or protecting.
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Offense➦
The state of being offended.
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Defense➦
(Sports) The act or an instance of defending a championship against a challenger
will box in his third defense of his title.
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Offense➦
A violation or infraction of a moral or social code; a transgression or sin.
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Defense➦
An argument in support or justification of something.
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Offense➦
A transgression of law; a crime.
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Defense➦
The act of defending a case.
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Offense➦
Something that outrages moral sensibilities
Genocide is an offense to all civilized humans.
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Defense➦
A fact or law that provides a full or partial exoneration of the defendant against the charges or claims made in a lawsuit or prosecution.
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Offense➦
(ŏfĕns′) The act of attacking or assaulting.
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Defense➦
The defendant and the defendant's legal counsel.
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Offense➦
The means or tactics used in attempting to score.
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Defense➦
The science or art of defending oneself; self-defense.
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Offense➦
The team in possession of the ball or puck, or those players whose primary duty is to attempt to score.
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Defense➦
The means or tactics used in trying to stop the opposition from scoring.
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Offense➦
Scoring ability or potential.
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Defense➦
The team or those players on the team attempting to stop the opposition from scoring.
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Offense➦
The act of offending.
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Defense➦
Defending ability or potential.
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Offense➦
A crime or sin.
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Defense➦
The provision of personnel and resources for military purposes
proposed spending more on defense.
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Offense➦
An affront, injury, or insult.
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Defense➦
To attempt to stop (the opposition) from scoring.
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Offense➦
The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
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Defense➦
To play defense against (an opponent or play).
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Offense➦
A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
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Defense➦
The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
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Offense➦
The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
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Defense➦
Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
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Offense➦
The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.
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Defense➦
A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
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Offense➦
The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure; as, to cause offense.
He was content to give them just cause of offense, when they had power to make just revenge.
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Defense➦
The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
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Offense➦
A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.
Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!
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Defense➦
An argument in support or justification of something.
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Offense➦
In any contest, the act or process of attacking as contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as, to go on the offense.
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Defense➦
The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
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Offense➦
The members of a team who have the primary responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the opposing team from scoring goal.
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Defense➦
The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
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Offense➦
a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
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Defense➦
Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Department of Defense
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Offense➦
a feeling of anger caused by being offended;
he took offence at my question
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Defense➦
(obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
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Offense➦
a crime less serious than a felony
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Defense➦
The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
In cases of defense 't is best to weighThe enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Offense➦
the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
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Defense➦
That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
War would arise in defense of the right.
God, the widow's champion and defense.
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Offense➦
the action of attacking an enemy
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Defense➦
Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense.
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Defense➦
The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
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Defense➦
Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
A man of great defense.
By how much defense is better than no skill.
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Defense➦
Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.
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Defense➦
To furnish with defenses; to fortify.
Better manned and more strongly defensed.
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Defense➦
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring;
his teams are always good on defense
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Defense➦
military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies;
they died in the defense of Stalingrad
they were developed for the defense program
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Defense➦
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively;
the defense called for a mistrial
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Defense➦
protection from harm;
sanitation is the best defense against disease
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Defense➦
a structure used for defense;
the artillery battered down the defenses
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Defense➦
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions;
his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive
in defense he said the other man started it
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Defense➦
the justification for some act or belief;
he offered a persuasive defense of the theory
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Defense➦
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him;
he gave evidence for the defense
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Defense➦
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack;
he joined the defense against invasion
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Defense➦
the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
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Defense➦
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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