The difference between Armour and Horn

When used as nouns, armour means a protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces, whereas horn means a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

When used as verbs, armour means to equip something with armour or a protective coating or hardening, whereas horn means to assault with the horns.

check bellow for the other definitions of Armour and Horn

  1. Armour as a noun (uncountable):

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

  2. Armour as a noun (uncountable):

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

  3. Armour as a noun (uncountable):

    Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.

  4. Armour as a noun (countable):

    A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.

  5. Armour as a noun (military, uncountable):

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

  6. Armour as a noun (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.

  1. Armour as a verb (transitive):

    To equip something with armour or a protective coating or hardening.

  2. Armour as a verb (transitive):

    To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

  1. Horn as a noun (countable):

    A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

  2. Horn as a noun:

    Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.

  3. Horn as a noun:

    An antler.

  4. Horn as a noun (uncountable):

    The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: keratin"

    "an umbrella with a handle made of horn'"

  5. Horn as a noun (architecture):

    An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. The Ionic volute. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

  6. Horn as a noun (countable):

    Any of several musical wind instruments.

  7. Horn as a noun (countable, musical instrument):

    An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

    Examples:

    "hunting horn'"

  8. Horn as a noun (countable, automotive):

    A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: hooter klaxon"

  9. Horn as a noun (chiefly, sports):

    A sound signaling the expiration of time.

    Examples:

    "The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count."

  10. Horn as a noun (countable):

    A conical device used to direct waves.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: funnel"

    "antenna horn'"

    "loudspeaker horn'"

  11. Horn as a noun (informal, musical instrument, countable):

    Generally, any brass wind instrument.

  12. Horn as a noun (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes):

    A telephone.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: [[blower]] q UK [[dog and bone]] q Cockney rhyming slang phone"

    "Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this."

  13. Horn as a noun (uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article):

    An erection of the penis.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: [[boner]] q US hard-on stiffy"

  14. Horn as a noun (countable, geography):

    A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: peninsula"

    "to navigate around the horn'"

  15. Horn as a noun (countable):

    A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.

  16. Horn as a noun (botany):

    An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ().

  1. Horn as a verb (of an animal):

    To assault with the horns

  2. Horn as a verb (slang, obsolete):

    To cuckold

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