Armor vs. Fur

Armornoun

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

Furnoun

The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.

Armornoun

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

Furnoun

The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.

Armornoun

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

Furnoun

A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.

Armornoun

(countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.

Furnoun

A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.

Armornoun

A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.

Furnoun

A thick pile of fabric.

Armornoun

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

Furnoun

The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

Armorverb

(transitive) To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.

Furnoun

The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

Armorverb

(transitive) To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

Furnoun

The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.

Armornoun

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

Furnoun

(heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.

Armornoun

Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

Furnoun

Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).

Armornoun

protective covering made of metal and used in combat

Furnoun

A furry; a member of the furry subculture.

Armornoun

a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles

Furnoun

Pubic hair.

Armornoun

tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant

Furnoun

Sexual attractiveness.

Armorverb

equip with armor

Furverb

(transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.

Furverb

(intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.

Furverb

To level a surface by applying furring to it.

Furpreposition

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Furnoun

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

Furnoun

The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

Furnoun

Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

Furnoun

Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

‘Wrapped up in my furs.’;

Furnoun

Any coating considered as resembling fur

Furnoun

One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.

Furadjective

Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.

Furverb

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.

Furverb

To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

Furverb

To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.

Furnoun

the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Furnoun

dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)

Furnoun

a garment made of fur

Furnoun

a member of a Muslim people of the mountainous and desert regions of south-western Sudan.

Furnoun

the language of the Fur, an isolated member of the Nilo-Saharan family, with about 500,000 speakers.

Furverb

coat or clog with a deposit

‘the stuff that furs up coronary arteries’;

Furverb

covered with or made from a particular type of fur

‘the black-furred rabbit’;

Furverb

level (floor or wall timbers) by inserting strips of wood

‘the drain could be concealed by furring out the original wall’;

Furadjective

relating to the Fur or their language.

Fur

Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of many different animals, particularly mammals. It consists of a combination of oily guard hair on top and thick underfur beneath.