Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered or protected by iron plates, as a vessel for naval warfare; iron-clad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with a hard steel plate, especially
vehicles ,boats , anddefenses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with heavy steel
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance.
The Mockingbird Sings Mark Kerstetter 2011
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The scene was straight from HBO, a gathering of 200 law officers, two Black Hawk helicopters, two armor-plated vehicles and a surveillance airplane mistaken for a mad bomber.
Ask an old gringo: symbolism, police, education, and the Virgin 2009
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The scene was straight from HBO, a gathering of 200 law officers, two Black Hawk helicopters, two armor-plated vehicles and a surveillance airplane mistaken for a mad bomber.
Ask an old gringo: symbolism, police, education, and the Virgin 2009
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Friday night, August 9, Donovan and Knox boarded the armor-plated presidential train at Hyde Park, which carried Roosevelt and the large White House entourage of aides, Secret Service agents, and reporters always following him.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance.
The Mockingbird Sings Mark Kerstetter 2011
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Franklin Roosevelt logged 243,827 train miles, mostly aboard the armor-plated U.S. No.
When a Gulfstream V Just Won't Do, Try Riding Like a Rail Baron Barry Newman 2011
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If "Fast Five" had been rated by the EPA instead of the MPAA—the Motion Picture Association of America gave it a PG, notwithstanding rampant road rage—the average MPG would have been abysmal, what with vroom-vrooming muscle cars, screeching exotics and an armor-plated monster that makes the Hummer look demure.
'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel Joe Morgenstern 2011
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A witness said the security forces arrived in the morning with armor-plated vehicles and shot at the women, who were waving palm fronds in protest against Ivory Coast's embattled president, Laurent Gbagbo.
Female Marchers Killed in Ivory Coast Monica Mark 2011
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American conservatives have spent the last few decades trying to make America into the kind of country where a minority can shut itself up into homogeneous gated communities, defend itself with guns against intruders, and drive to work in SUVs that provide massive armor-plated protection against contact of any kind with the teeming polyglot of America outside.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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Friday night, August 9, Donovan and Knox boarded the armor-plated presidential train at Hyde Park, which carried Roosevelt and the large White House entourage of aides, Secret Service agents, and reporters always following him.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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