armouredarmoredadj.
/ˈɑːməd/, U.S. /ˈɑrmərd/ 1.
a. Clad in, protected by, or covered with armour (armour n. 2a).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > clad in or protected by armour
armedc1300
wrienc1330
steel-clada1400
armed at (also of) all piecesc1400
harnessedc1460
enarmedc1540
armoured1564
steeled1596
iron-clothed1728
armour-clad1768
hoplomachic1832
well-armoured1852
brazen-mailed1870
pamphract1890
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Feuer Pestilence (new ed.) sig. N.iiij The Capitaine..is worthy of worldly fame and honor, moche more the Lordes armoured knight.
1595 R. Parry Moderatus iii. sig. B3 On eyther side is finely dight, Like armored scales shining bright. Two rowes of Ribbes so euen and iust.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 64 The Brytaines went not proudly armoured.
1678 E. Cooke Love's Triumph iv. x. 48 Long Troops of Horse and glittering Armour'd Men.
a1823 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville (1826) I. 156 The armoured shape leaned on its sword, And downward bent its steely face.
1897 Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. 9 186 In the centre..is engraved a head and shoulders of an armoured soldier of the period.
1916 A. Lowell Men, Women & Ghosts (1923) 23 Warriors and ladies, armoured, ruffed, peruked.
1967 H. P. Varley tr. Chron. Ōnin in Ōnin War 159 They clustered about tightly..their helmet emblems aglisten, their armored sleeves clanging together.
2013 P. G. Bailey Taiso x. 394 Nobody would back a fully armed and armoured samurai to win in a fight against an unarmed Red Guard.
b. Of a warship, military vehicle, aircraft, etc.: covered with or protected by armour or armour plating. Cf. armour-clad adj. 1.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for vehicle, ship, etc. > [adjective]
armoured1859
armour-plated1862
cuirassed1864
up-armoured1978
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > armour-plated
armour-clad1768
mail-clad1777
iron-cased1855
ironclad1855
iron-plated1855
iron-sided1855
armoured1859
iron-clothed1859
mailed1860
armour-plated1862
cuirassed1864
belted1865
Harveyed1894
up-armoured1978
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > wrapped > encased > in armouring
armoured1859
1859 Sci. Amer. 27 Aug. 131/1 For shot that are to pierce armored vessels, it is quite clear that the Bessemer malleable steel will prove a most important material.
1869 E. J. Reed Our Iron-clad Ships Introd. 12 Our armoured frigates.
1900 J. Ralph Towards Pretoria vii. 115 The destruction of a British armoured train.
1914 Illustr. War News 21 Oct. 16/1 Armoured aeroplanes carrying machine-guns.
1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 15/1 His bogged transport and armoured fighting vehicles were vulnerable to air attack.
1980 Daily Disp. 21 July 1 An infantry-man in an armoured Buffel troop carrier spotted three insurgents in the bush.
2012 Time 10 Dec. 17/2 Stuck behind an armored humvee, Rasul stepped down to the asphalt.
c. Of armed forces: supplied with or using armour-plated vehicles or warships. Also (of warfare): carried out using armour-plated vehicles.
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1869 Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engin. Mag. May 440/2 We have already seen by..experiments made with the armored division of the north, that delay in this matter is no longer tolerable.
1939 Fortune Nov. 64/2 In addition to these truly armored forces, there are probably four or more motorized divisions.
1945 News Chron. 18 Apr. 1/5 The advance of the 7th Armoured Division and the 4th Armoured Brigade..was cut in two places.
1947 R. W. Cooper Nuremberg Trial viii. 166 General Guderian, Germany's foremost expert on armoured warfare.
1960 C. Barnett Desert Generals iii. ii. 103 The mentality of the army's senior and rising officers could not be similarly converted by decree to suit mobile armoured warfare.
1977 Sunday Sun (Toronto) 20 Mar. 3/3 The vehicles will be used by armored regiments in Canada.
2013 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 4 Oct. 18 Shlomo..was killed..while serving as a tank gunner in the Armored Corps.
2. Of an animal, or a part of its body: having the surface protected by a defensive outer layer of scales, bones, plates, etc.
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1742 T. Delamayne Love & Honour ii. 74 From far the Eagle views with peerless Eye On the warm sands the reptile Tortoise lie: Swift on the armour'd Hypocrite He flies.
1791 J. Ireland Hogarth Illustr. II. 314 These oysters, notwithstanding their supposed torpor, may have an equal degree of feeling with their armoured brother [sc. a lobster].
1866 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 22 p. lviii In England, amongst the six genera of fish found in the Ludlow and Passage-beds, there are none of the cuirassés or armoured types.
1876 Daily News 30 Sept. 3/2 Lusty fish, armoured in red and gold.
1922 J. A. Thomson Outl. Sci. III. xxxi. 1021 Tortoises are among the most perfectly armoured of animals, surpassed only by the armadillos.
1966 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz On Aggression vii. 126 In the wonderful ritual fights of the Fence Lizard, each of the rivals first holds his heavily armoured head in an attitude of self-display towards the other.
2013 D. Palmer Wow! Dinosaur iii. 107 Although no complete skeleton has been found, Ankylosaurus is one of the best-known armoured dinosaurs.
3. Of a cable, hose, or the like: encased in a protective sheath, typically of metal.
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1870 Telegrapher 6 6/1 Armored vs. Light Cables.
1896 H. J. Dowsing Griffin's Electr. Engin. Price-bk. (ed. 2) 254 Where mechanical strength is of importance, a pendant fitting is made with iron armoured wire in place of the concentric flexible.
1930 Engineering 7 Mar. 324/3 The suction pipe of the pump is an armoured hose.
1985 D. Holloway Which? Bk. Plumbing & Central Heating (1992) x. 122/2 Take the opportunity of the trench to lay a garden electrical supply as well—in special armoured cable or normal cable laid in rigid plastic conduit.
2005 N. Polmar Ships & Aircraft U.S. Fleet (ed. 18) xxii. 237/2 The thin, coaxial cable is armored and nonmagnetic.
4. Of glass: toughened in the course of manufacture; spec. bulletproof. Cf. armour glass n. at armour n. Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > toughened or tempered
well-annealed1606
annealed1684
toughened1876
armoured1899
wired1908
1899 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 6 Oct. 850/2 (heading) Armoured glass.
1922 G. G. Munn Paying Teller's Dept. (ed. 2) 38 Bank collection and messenger cars and armored trucks may also be equipped with armored glass.
1949 Archit. Rev. 105 181 An armoured glass table the length of the wall below the window provides a large working space.
2013 T. Hayes I am Pilgrim ii. xx. 176 He decided to punch his fist straight at the tinted glass of the driver's window. With his arm cocked, he had a moment of panic: what if the glass was armoured?
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armoured car n. (a) Military a wheeled vehicle, usually a road vehicle, protected by armour-plating; (b) any road vehicle adapted by the addition of armour-plating to increase its security.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > armoured car
armoured car?1867
jam jar1895
scout car1933
?1867 R. Tomes & B. G. Smith War with South III. xli. 453/1 They had also a piece of ordnance mounted on an armored car, which could be moved on the railroad.
1911 Sci. Amer. 22 Apr. 410/3 Armoured cars in the Mexican Revolution... An ordinary box car..is sheathed inside with quarter-inch steel plates.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Oct. 1/3 An armored car to protect banks and bank messengers when engaged in transporting large sums of money was recommended.
1969 Listener 8 May 634/2 They have British armoured cars which are almost invulnerable to Biafran weapons.
1990 P. Edwards Blood Brothers i. ii. 15 Montreal's finest had been tipped off to the armoured car hold-up well in advance.
2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Mar. (Central ed.) a1/3 Chubais survived a bomb and machine-gun attack on his armored car.
armoured catfish n. any of numerous freshwater catfishes of the Central and South American families Callichthyidae and Loricariidae, having a covering of bony plates.Several kinds, esp. in the genera Callichthys, Corydoras, and Hypostomus, are popular as aquarium fishes.
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1885 Trans. Amer. Fisheries Soc. 14 61 This [structure] is found in a species of the armored catfish of South America.
1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes vii. 66 Mollies..will take a lot [of salt]: Armoured Catfishes (Corydoras ) cannot endure it.
2001 T. M. Berra Freshwater Fish Distribution 224 These fishes [sc. Callichthyidae] are called ‘armored catfishes’ due to the presence of two rows of overlapping bony plates on each side of the body.
armoured concrete n. = reinforced concrete n. at reinforced adj. Compounds.Also called ferro-concrete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > types of
tabby1802
beton1813
granolithic1881
reinforced concrete1891
ferro-concrete1896
armoured concrete1898
re-enforced concrete1902
breeze-concrete1930
mass concrete1930
Siporex1938
grano1940
shell concrete1949
no-fines1960
1898 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 134 444 An account is given of the extensive use of armoured concrete, on Mr. Bonna's system, for the building recently completed for the Comptoir d'Escompte.
1912 W. R. Lethaby Architecture xv. 248 Modern armoured concrete is only a higher power of the Roman system of construction.
2010 G. Lorenzini et al. Solar Thermal & Biomass Energy ii. 172 They are silo-shaped and are built in armoured concrete or steel.
armoured fighting vehicle n. Military (originally British) any of various types of armour-plated military vehicle, including tanks, armoured cars, personnel carriers, etc.; abbreviated AFV.
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1927 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 2 Jan. 4 (caption) Another stride on the advancement of military transport has been taken by the successful test..of the lately invented armored fighting vehicle for a single operator.
1944 Mil. Affairs 8 102 As steam-power produced the armored battleship, so now did petrol-power produce the armored fighting vehicle.
1993 Soldier of Fortune Feb. 33/1 The all-steel 50-round magazine..remains popular with..those operating from Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs).
2001 Time 26 Nov. 58/1 The four tanks and two armored fighting vehicles of the Northern Alliance's Guards Brigade rolled forward.
armoured personnel carrier n. Military an armour-plated tracked or wheeled vehicle designed for transporting troops in battle.
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1937 Command & Gen. Staff School Q. Sept. 180 The infantry has cross-country vehicles for their heavy weapons and..armored personnel carriers.
1961 Flight 80 608/2 The pad rescue team used an armoured personnel carrier and operated a mobile tower or ‘cherry-picker’.
1991 Washington Post 30 Jan. a7/5 Barre, his family, closest aides and troops, escaped the compound in a convoy of about 50 cars and armored personnel carriers.
2007 Independent 26 June 21/4 Sunday's bomb blew one of the Spanish armoured personnel carriers into the air.
armoured scale n. (in full armoured scale insect, armoured scale bug) any of numerous homopteran bugs constituting the family Diaspididae, the females of which secrete a tough protective waxy scale under which they shelter.Cf. scale-insect n. at scale n.2 Compounds 2.
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1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 819 I have found it to be efficient even against the armored scale-bug of the orange and lemon.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 251 The insects of this latter group are usually referred to as the armoured scales and the others as the unarmoured scales.
2001 F. W. Howard in F. W. Howard et al. Insects on Palms iii. 201/1 Armoured scale insects do not change the feeding site from that selected by the crawler.
armoured vehicle n. any of various types of vehicle, esp. for military use, which are armour-plated to protect the occupants from bullets or other missiles; cf. armoured fighting vehicle n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured
armoured vehicle1900
battle-wagon1926
1900 Sci. Amer. 26 May 330 [The Brigadier] remarked that much could be done in the matter of motor-propelled armored vehicles for strategic movements in countries possessing well made roads.
1942 Flying Mag. Sept. 268/3 Rommel..decided that, his fuel being limited, it was more important to supply his tanks and armoured vehicles than his aircraft.
1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) v. 74 ‘Submarines,’ McCafferty pronounced. ‘Tanks, armored vehicles, command cars,..lots of stuff painted green.’
2003 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 14 The President..will arrive today with a vast entourage of armed guards and armoured vehicles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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