Armor vs Gear - What's the difference?
armor | gear |
(uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
(uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
(uncountable) Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
(countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
(military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
(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.
To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
To provide something with an analogous form of protection.
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(uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Clothing; garments.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
(countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
(countable) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque
(slang) recreational drugs
* 2003 , Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
(uncountable, archaic) stuff.
* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
* Spenser
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
* Latimer
(engineering) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
(engineering) To be in, or come into, gear.
to dress; to put gear on; to harness.
As a noun armor
is (uncountable) a protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.As a verb armor
is to equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.As a proper noun gear is
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Alternative forms
* armourNoun
(wikipedia) (qualifier)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, cavalryDerived terms
* * composite armour * armour-plated * armour plating * armoury * spaced armour * stand-off armour * suit of armour * reactive armour * explosive reactive armourVerb
(en verb)gear
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Noun
(wikipedia gear)- Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .
- (Chaucer)
- Homely gear and common ware.
- Have you got any gear ? Dominic, have you got any acid?
- "When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose."
- Thus go they both together to their gear .
- (Wright)
- That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.