ARMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armed mean? 

• ARMED (adjective)
  The adjective ARMED has 3 senses:

1. (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

2. having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination

3. (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

  Familiarity information: ARMED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

Context example:

armed robbery

Similar:

equipped; weaponed (carrying weapons)

light-armed (armed with light equipment and weapons)

militarised; militarized (issued military arms)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Antonym:

unarmed ((used of persons or the military) not having or using arms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination

Context example:

the many-armed goddess Shiva

Similar:

armlike (resembling an arm)

brachiate (having arms or armlike appendages)

long-armed (having relatively long arms)

one-armed (having one arm)

Antonym:

armless (having no arms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

Similar:

barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)

bristlelike (resembling a bristle)

brushlike (resembling a brush)

thistlelike (resembling a thistle)

clawed; taloned ((of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons)

Antonym:

unarmed ((used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns)

 Context examples 

In vitro, T cells are activated through exposure to the anti-CD3 murine monoclonal antibody OKT3 and low-dose interleukin 2 (Il-2) for 6-14 days and then armed with anti-CD3 x anti-CD20 bispecific antibody (CD20Bi).

(Anti-CD3 x Anti-CD20 Bispecific Antibody-Armed Activated T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

He said these molecular charges are armed by TOP2’s interaction with environmental toxicants, chemical metabolites, tobacco exposures, or DNA damage caused by ultraviolet light.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

Binding of EGFRBi-armed autologous activated T cells to EGFR-positive tumor cells may result in increased T cell-mediated cytotoxicity towards tumor cells expressing EGFR.

(EGFRBi-Armed Autologous T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

In vitro, T cells are activated through exposure to the anti-CD3 murine monoclonal antibody OKT3 and interleukin 2 for 14 days and then armed with anti-CD3 x anti-Her2 bispecific antibody (Her2Bi).

(HER2Bi-Armed Activated T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Then, with one blow of his heavy paw, all armed with sharp claws, he knocked the spider's head from its body.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“But they are armed,” said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had armed himself with a draw-knife from the tool-locker, and with this he prepared to cut across the throat-halyards I had again rigged to the shears.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Where were we going, and what were we to do?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I assure you that I am armed to the teeth, and I am perfectly prepared to use my weapons, knowing that the law will support me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The armed forces of a country.

(Military, NCI Thesaurus)