[
UK
/ˈɑːmɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɑɹmɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹmɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles
- tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant
- protective covering made of metal and used in combat
VERB
- equip with armor
How To Use armour In A Sentence
- Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
- As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
- I had one forged from a white metal, capable of piercing almost any armour worn by man.
- Six armoured personnel carriers were parked across the road. Times, Sunday Times
- [LC] "A plaine declaracon, how greatlie the ffarmours of the Tobacco impost have bene endam - aged by that ffarme, and what proffitt and benefitt their labour & travell have brought to his Matie. The Records of the Virginia Company of London
- A warning shot was fired but he fled when none of the heavily armoured commandos was able to give chase. Times, Sunday Times
- The ornamentation of such objects was similar to that of the nielloed gold and silver ladles and cups produced at the Kremlin Armoury in the 16th to early 17th centuries.
- Too late - at this speed, it's approximately as effective as scattering thumbtacks in front of advancing armour.
- The slender, spikey fish is regarded as having one of the sturdiest and most flexible forms of animal armour.
- Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.