What's the difference between arm and armour?

Arm


Definition:

  • (n.) The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
  • (n.) Anything resembling an arm
  • (n.) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.
  • (n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
  • (n.) A branch of a tree.
  • (n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.
  • (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.
  • (n.) An inlet of water from the sea.
  • (n.) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
  • (n.) Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
  • (n.) A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.
  • (n.) A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.
  • (v. t.) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with arms or limbs.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
  • (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
  • (v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (4) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
  • (5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
  • (6) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (7) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
  • (8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (9) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
  • (10) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
  • (11) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
  • (12) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (13) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (14) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (15) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (16) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
  • (17) The increase in the mean resting ankle-arm index 1 year after conventional angioplasty (0.26) was greater than that after laser angioplasty (0.12).
  • (18) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
  • (19) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (20) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.

Armour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
  • (2) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
  • (4) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
  • (5) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
  • (6) - 16: Ukrainian troops turn back from Slavyansk after pro-Russians seize six armoured vehicles.
  • (7) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
  • (8) This soft body armour was applied, either in direct contact with the thoracic wall of the animals, or with different plastic foam sheets, so-called trauma packs, between the armour and the skin.
  • (9) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
  • (10) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
  • (11) On the ground in east Ukraine , a rebel armoured column moved from the town of Novoazovsk, seized last week, in the direction of Mariupol, a major port city that the Ukrainians have said they will defend against any assault.
  • (12) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
  • (13) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
  • (14) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
  • (15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
  • (16) Police cracked down on the protests with a militarised presence including armoured vehicles and dozens of armed officers in riot gear .
  • (17) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
  • (18) US aircraft have targeted armoured vehicles and militant positions in a second day of strikes against Islamic State forces.
  • (19) "We have been promised a mobile strike force of 800 men with up-armour [shaped to deflect road mines] and advanced weaponry.
  • (20) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.

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