1The metal coverings formerly worn by soldiers or warriors to protect the body in battle.

1. 1.1 The tough metal layer covering a military vehicle or ship to defend it from attack.
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   • The Ijuin fuze allowed the shell to explode on impact rather than after it had penetrated the armor of enemy ships.
   • When a shaped charge explodes it projects a stream of molten metal and gas which can penetrate considerable thicknesses of armour plate.
   • When the aircraft arrived from Chad, the gear doors and some armor plate was missing.
   • The plane was lightened a bit by removal of armor plate and some military systems but the airframe was essentially stock.
   • In fact, one soldier thanked Rumsfeld and presented him with an armor plate that saved his life by stopping a sniper's bullet.
   • A beard of several days darkened his face, and nearly every bit of mail, leather and armor plate that he wore seemed to have acquired some blemish or other.
   • By using removable armor plate and removable side panels, the seat is completely concealed when not being used.
   • First, the convoy should have at least five vehicles and they should have extra armor plate or Kevlar blankets attached to protect the crew.
   • Being so hard, its density twice that of lead - it is used to tip armour-piercing shells and built into the armour of military vehicles.
   • Due to its high density, which is about twice that of lead, and other physical properties, depleted uranium is used in munitions designed to penetrate armour plate.
   • Sandbags were eventually replaced with locally fabricated steel armor plate.
   • They cured that problem by covering the PT boat with armor plate.
   • Will the New Zealand Army be purchasing and fitting extra armour to its light armoured vehicles; if not, why not, and, if so, at what cost?
   • Use of these copper-free alloys has increased in recent years and now includes automotive applications, structural members and armor plate for military vehicles, and components of other transportation equipment.
   • The welded steel and aluminium alloy hull is fitted with spall liners and add-on titanium armour plate to protect against anti-tank weapons.
   • Shrapnel hit the armor plate under the cockpit, mangled the plating and destroyed the equipment mounted directly above.
   • BA said all its 340 planes would get a full-length metal armour plate fitted, which will substantially reinforce cockpit door exteriors and prevent unauthorised access to the flight deck.
   • The round penetrated through his arm into his flack vest and was stopped by his armor plate.
   • Applications for 5xxx-series alloys include automobile and appliance trim, pressure vessels, armor plate, and components for marine and cryogenic service.
   • The plant is the largest producer of armor plate for the U.S. military.
   • For protection against mines the vehicle is fitted with a floor spall liner and 18 mm armour plate in the floor.
   • Mike Tremoglie exposes the distortions in media reports of what Rumsfeld said in Iraq about armour for U.S. military vehicles.

   Synonyms

   protective covering, armour plate
2. 1.2 Military vehicles collectively.
   the contingent includes infantry, armor, and logistic units

   Example sentencesExamples

   • No one weapon was predominant, but victory usually went to the side which best combined its infantry, armour, and artillery and enjoyed air superiority.
   • We have been encountered by fierce infantry resistance, yet our superior weaponry and armor has allowed us to crush this resistance.
   • On Dec 4th Pakistani infantry supported by armour captured Mandiala North after bitter hand to hand fighting.
   • He then attacked the isolated defense with infantry and armor from different axes.
   • Quick-moving armour, motorised infantry, the Luftwaffe flying both as artillery and as close support resulted in rapid dominance.
   • Separating attacking infantry from their supporting armor would also be a logical approach.
   • Syrian's armored forces moved on the Golan Plateau to be met by Israeli armor and mechanized infantry brigades.
   • Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
   • Together with the armour, artillery and infantry, the Royal Engineers form one of the combat elements of the army.
   • If you are the medical platoon leader for an infantry or armor battalion task force, you are expected to have what you need to treat patients.
   • Thus by the 20th century it had become necessary to integrate infantry, artillery and armour, as well as air and land, air and sea, and land and sea forces.
   • This excludes women from employment in armour, artillery, infantry and combat engineer units/positions.
   • Artillery positions will have to be silenced, either by superior artillery power or by sending armour and infantry to do the work.
   • In battle, the artillery's role is to provide fire support for the infantry, cavalry, armor and other units.
   • An armor or infantry task force traditionally performs these roles with engineers attached as the reduction element.
   • In the meantime, the gunners gave close and effective fire support to the infantry and armor troops.
   • Israeli armour and infantry pushed into Jordan capturing the West Bank, deep into Sinai up to the Suez Canal and into the Golan Heights in Syria.
   • I figured by this point, we'd have three divisions of armor, mechanized infantry, and Marines in Kuwait.
   • There, the infantry and the armour troops had been doing the same task.
   • Israeli infantry and armor rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.
3. 1.3 The protective layer or shell of some animals and plants.
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   • Unlike the new species, these four Tertiary species have flat bases, and none has pebble armor like the new species.
   • The trilobite eye is in continuity with the rest of its shelly armor.
   • The oddly jointed pectoral fin armor is a memorable feature of the placoderms, especially Antiarchs.
   • The bony armor of the earliest jawless fish was dermal bone; so are shark scales, shoulder blades, and the roof of your skull.
   • As a result of this armor, the longnose gar has no major predators.
   • The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
   • Body protected by armour of bony plates, male carries fertilised eggs until they hatch into miniature adults.
   • The pirarucu's sheer size and bony armor provide defenses against predators.
   • In many systems skeletal armor has been correlated with the level or type of predation pressure in the environment.
   • Most dinoflagellates are encased in plates of armor.
   • The shell is considered the most highly developed protective armor of any vertebrate species.
   • Such hairs serve as a protective armor for plants because they secrete polyol ester chemicals that are deadly to certain insect pests.
   • Notice that each of the two body sections is expanded outward, providing a protective armor which shields the legs and gills.
   • The dorsal armor may be a single plate, or may be comprised of as many as nine smaller plates.
   • But Main, the Harvard University biologist, said the plates would not have been very effective as armor.
   • Related agnathans with external armour occur widely from the Late Silurian to the Devonian, but they all became extinct before the start of the Carboniferous.
   • Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
   • There is armour, an insect-like carapace; and there is drapery, a second, looser skin.

   Synonyms

   carapace, outside, exterior
4. 1.4 A person's emotional, social, or other defenses.
   his armor of self-confidence

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Buy all the poetry you can find; it is the soul's beautiful armor.
   • And all my armour and resources and defences have stripped away, leaving me soft and vulnerable, and gently bleeding.
   • Beneath the social armour of her Galliano jacket, Gucci trousers and Manolos, her beauty is as fragile as porcelain.
   • Everyone enters adulthood with a whole lot of emotional armour and they erect walls about them - suspicious and very guarded.
   • Just occasionally she lets slip a chink in her emotional armour.
   • There seems no stopping its growth and there appears no chink in the armour of Fred Goodwin, who was named global businessman of the year by Forbes magazine at the end of last year.
   • These tiny parasites have been burrowing under your spiritual armour for way too long now.
   • His psychological armor will make him seem more self-sufficient and stronger than the people he will meet in Newfoundland.
   • I wasn't so interested in Tracy herself; my main thought was what happened behind the shield of social armor.
   • Getting hurt no longer seemed inevitable, and my emotional armor began to come off.
   • While you think wearing a suit of emotional armor is safe, it keeps people at a distance.

Provide (someone) with emotional, social, or other defenses.