What's the difference between armor and armory?

Armor


Definition:

  • (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
  • (n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As part of Return of Forces to Germany 1990, a number of Second Armored Division soldiers participated in the heroic rescue of German and American civilians injured in a 32-vehicle crash on an autobahn in West Germany.
  • (2) The method used was the Lazare-Klerman-Armor personality test.
  • (3) 5.06pm GMT Associated Press journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck on a road between the port city of Sevastopol and the regional capital, Sinferopol, the news agency reports: The Russian tricolor flags were painted on the vehicles, which were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems.
  • (4) Officials charged with overseeing the programs say it is difficult to directly trace back to the DHS programs the purchase of Bearcat armored vehicles, sound cannons, and other tactical gear used by Ferguson law enforcemen t and similar police departments.
  • (5) The method consists in using for the plasty a band or graft of autologous skin armored with a monophilic thread.
  • (6) Fifteen healthy young males, nine at rest and six at exercise, were exposed to high transient levels of carbon monoxide (CO) to simulate the breathing environment measured in an armored vehicle during weapons firing.
  • (7) Robert Doggart, 63, and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light-armor piercing”, a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
  • (8) The finances of the NBA are like a battalion of armored vehicles: the money’s inside, but it’s impossible to tell who’s it is, and even harder to get at it.
  • (9) It is expedient for school children or moviegoers or women’s healthcare providers to be victims of their own choices: they elected the wrong leader, they hired the wrong personnel, they didn’t up-armor to see a Batman movie, they chose jobs that some people don’t like.
  • (10) In the second study, 64 undergraduate subjects (30 males and 34 females) completed the DMI and the Lazare-Klerman Trait Scale (Lazare, Klerman & Armor, 1966, 1970).
  • (11) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
  • (12) The instruments used were the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the Lazare-Klerman-Armor Trait Scale (LKAS), the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the Own Memories of Child-Rearing Experiences (EMBU).
  • (13) Injuries to armored vehicle crewmembers are characterized by a large number of burn casualties, a larger percentage of fractures and traumatic amputations with extremity wounds, and a higher mortality when compared with infantry footsoldier combat casualty statistics.
  • (14) A geographic targeting order was issued earlier this year for cash couriers and armored cars at two Mexican border crossing points in California.
  • (15) One of the vehicles, the aptly named Sentinel – 21ft long, 17,500lbs in weight, and costing $250,000 and up – was developed by a Florida-based company called International Armored Group that began supplying the US army in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (16) That armor is exterior and it’s more about the outside feeding in, and I was very excited that inside that armor was a woman.” Domhnall Gleeson, who plays villain General Hux, began answering a question about his character with, “He was on Starkiller Base, which … whoops.
  • (17) I said dawn, because none of our people had experience driving the armored vehicles .
  • (18) The need for armor as defense against eurypterid enemies appears to have initiated the development of bony skeletal structures, without which the higher vertebrates could never have developed.
  • (19) The report offered four milquetoast recommendations that included giving local police more money for body cameras and sensitivity training, while leaving every program – including the controversial Defense Department initiative known as 1033 that has sent assault rifles and armored mine-resistant vehicles to local cops – almost completely intact.
  • (20) Experiments were conducted on 48 dogs to study the terms and degree of resolution of various plastic materials--areas of fascia lata of the animal's thigh, as well as explants (medical glue compositions, biological absorbable lavsan-armored Soviet medical films) in the pararectal tissues and in artificial formation of rectal fistulas.

Armory


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
  • (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
  • (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.
  • (n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
  • (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They then ran through the obstacle course, set up in a local armory, on three separate occasions.
  • (2) For many, this glaring omission in Nike’s technological armory is astounding given that, well, Android represents somewhere in the region of 80% of the smartphone market.
  • (3) Growth in a Time of Debt used to be a weapon in the armory of the deficit-cutters.
  • (4) The Armory show's lost its lustre, and at Frieze New York last year people were complaining that it wasn't as good as Miami."
  • (5) We conclude that ketoconazole is a useful addition to our current armory for management of patients with metastatic prostatic cancer resistant to prior hormonal therapy.
  • (6) For while Raskin also points to flashpoints in the earlier Castillo and Judah fights, the Cotto fight was one where Mayweather was hit more, looked a fraction slower, and generally had to dig deeper into his armory of skills and experience to get the victory.
  • (7) Despite the wide range of techniques that can be brought to bear on the study of basic processes in Drosophila, there are still deficiencies in our armory.
  • (8) The administration of cadmium led to an increase in the hepatic enzymatic and nonenzymatic defence armory in a dose dependent manner 72 hrs post its administration.
  • (9) Ryan hosted a low-key, 10-minute press conference without a balloon or champagne bottle in sight at an events venue called The Armory.
  • (10) Since acupuncture proved useful to many cases it is the author's wish to add this ancient practice to the armory of the medical profession.
  • (11) The recent discovery of numerous new "calcium inhibiting" molecules and the multiplicity of their indications in cardiology and in other specialties have made it necessary to clarify their position in the armory of medical treatments in cardiology and their associations with other treatments.
  • (12) "Handgun sales are up substantially and modern sporting rifles are up astronomically," he said after a few days when his shop, Northwest Armory, was packed with buyers sizing up the most popular pistol in the US, the Glock, and the military-style AR-15 assault rifle, which also comes with a pink stock for women.
  • (13) We conclude that CO2 subcapsular orchiectomy is a worthwhile addition to our surgical armory.

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