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ARMORED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does armored mean?
• ARMORED (adjective)
The adjective ARMORED has 3 senses:
1. protected by armor (used of persons or things military)
2. used of animals; provided with protective covering
3. equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior
Familiarity information: ARMORED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protected by armor (used of persons or things military)
Synonyms:
armored; armoured
Similar:
armor-clad; armor-plated; armour-clad; armour-plated; steel-plated (covered with heavy steel)
bony-plated (covered with bony plates)
bulletproof (not penetrable by bullets)
lightly armored; lightly armoured (equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms)
mail-cheeked (having bony plates on the sides of the head)
mail-clad; mailed (wearing protective mail)
scaled ((used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Antonym:
unarmored ((used of persons or things military) without protective armor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of animals; provided with protective covering
Synonyms:
armored; armoured
Similar:
bone-covered ((of animals) armored with bone)
scaled; scaley; scaly (having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles)
silver-scaled (having the body covered or partially covered with silver-colored scales)
Antonym:
unarmored (used of animals; without protective covering)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior
Synonyms:
armored; panoplied
Similar:
equipped; equipt (provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate)
Context examples
Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.
(FISH, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Sharks developed as an evolutionary offshoot from bony fish — non-armored species with skeletons made of bone, like modern fish.
(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)
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