armored
[ahr-merd]
- protected by armor or armor plate.
- provided with or using armored equipment, as tanks or armored cars: an armored unit; an armored patrol.
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Origin of armored
armor
[ahr-mer]
- any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- a suit of armor.
- a metallic sheathing or protective covering, especially metal plates, used on warships, armored vehicles, airplanes, and fortifications.
- mechanized units of military forces, as armored divisions.
- Also called armament. any protective covering, as on certain animals, insects, or plants.
- any quality, characteristic, situation, or thing that serves as protection: A chilling courtesy was his only armor.
- the outer, protective wrapping of metal, usually fine, braided steel wires, on a cable.
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- to cover or equip with armor or armor plate.
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Also especially British, ar·mour.
Origin of armor
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Examples from the Web for armored
Contemporary Examples
Hence the SWAT teams and armored trucks surrounding his house.
In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle.
CEO of armored car company tests his merchandise from the inside.
Sergei's comrades there are still waiting for the armored personnel carriers promised by the defense ministry months ago, he says.
His son had come back a hero of the Second Armored Division, and he still had enough paintings to do business and live well.
Historical Examples
When the monk had gone a little further, he met one who rode an armored steed.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
"It would at least be convincing," the pilot of the armored car declared.
The Boy Scouts on Belgian BattlefieldsLieut. Howard Payson
Such as the armored cable within the walls of a wooden house.
The Vortex BlasterEdward Elmer Smith
Whenever I get into this anti-mosquito rig, I feel like an armored train!
The Call of the Beaver PatrolV. T. Sherman
The blast bounced harmlessly off the machine's armored hide.
The Status CivilizationRobert Sheckley
armor
- the US spelling of armour
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Word Origin and History for armored
armor
n.
c.1300, "mail, defensive covering worn in combat," also "means of protection," from Old French armeure "weapons, armor" (12c.), from Latin armatura "arms, equipment," from arma "arms, gear" (see arm (n.2)). Figurative use from mid-14c.
Meaning "military equipment generally," especially siege engines, is late 14c. The word might have died with jousting if not for late 19c. transference to metal-shielded machinery beginning with U.S. Civil War ironclads (first attested in this sense in an 1855 report from the U.S. Congressional Committee on Naval Affairs).
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armor
v.
mid-15c., from armor (n.). Related: Armored; armoring.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with armored
armor
see chink in one's armor; knight in shining armor.
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