different between armor vs warhorse

English

Alternative forms

• armour (British, Canadian, Australian)

Etymology

From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin arm?t?ra. Doublet of armure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????.m?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)

Noun

armor (countable and uncountable, plural armors) (chiefly American spelling)

1. (uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

   Hyponyms: body armor, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armor

2. (uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.

   Synonyms: carapace, chitin, horn

3. (uncountable) Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.

   Synonym: armor plate

4. (countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
5. (military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.

   Synonyms: cavalry, mechanized

6. (hydrology, uncountable) The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.

Synonyms

• (body armour): body armour, body armor, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armour, suit of armor
• (animal): horn, carapace, chitin
• (metal plate): armour plate, armor plate
• (military): mechanized, cavalry

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Verb

armor (third-person singular simple present armors, present participle armoring, simple past and past participle armored)

1. (transitive) To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
2. (transitive) To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

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Anagrams

• Marro, Morar, Morra, maror, morra

Albanian

Noun

armor

1. armour (body protection)

Latin

Verb

armor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of arm?

Middle English

Noun

armor

1. Alternative form of armure

English

Etymology

war +? horse

Noun

warhorse (plural warhorses)

1. (historical) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
2. (theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
   • 2006 Most important though is the fact that, for the first time in I can barely remember how long, the ROH mounts a new production of an Italian repertory warhorse that is fully on the level of the one it replaces [and indeed, in some respects, surpasses it] [...] we actually have a "Tosca". — Google group.
3. An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
   • "Srinath: India's warhorse" (headline from BBC News)

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