(n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
(n.) Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
(n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
(v. t.) To provide with ammunition.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
(2) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(3) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
(4) So is Jon Eisenberg, the deputy counsel to Trump for national security, another person who reportedly helped provide Nunes with ammunition for his accusations.
(5) Soldier Y replied: "It would be regarded as a gross breach, bearing in mind the nature and quantity of the ammunition that was allegedly found at the defendant's house."
(6) There has been little impact on interest rates, banks have not increased their lending and the yen has risen on the foreign exchanges - the opposite of what was planned - because investors fear that the Bank of Japan is fast running out of ammunition.
(7) The company was alleged to have provided the Nigerian army with vehicles, patrol boats and ammunition, and to have helped plan raids and terror campaigns against villages.
(8) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(9) The army units that were standing in front of the Republican Guard headquarters first started shooting teargas, then live ammunition above people's heads.
(10) A pistol and ammunition were also found in N's room.
(11) Although a rubber-coated bullet was found on the ground that day, this is not conclusive, since the bullets do not carry the same identifying scars as standard ammunition.
(12) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
(13) However, the current security model for reducing the danger from guns involves a multilayered defence that relies on the regulation of both guns and ammunition.
(14) Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the seized ship is called Chong Chon Gang and has been on the institute's suspect list for some time, having previously been caught trafficking drugs and small arms ammunition.
(15) It also called for the international community to implement arms embargos that limit the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Syrian government.
(16) Annual US sales guns and ammunition total about $4bn, according to estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
(17) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
(18) Put together, that is an impressive battery of ammunition discovered by Labour within three hours of Osborne sitting down.
(19) The soldiers fired so many rounds that they ran low on ammunition.
(20) Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big atrocity was being planned,” Kaynak told reporters.
Antonym
Definition:
(n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
Example Sentences:
(1) These bipolar scales were derived from words previously judged by speech clinicians as descriptive of stutterers and antonyms of those words.
(2) First, the students were asked to circle one adjective from each of 28 antonym pairs, which was "most like" themselves.
(3) The negativity related to the expected antonym was almost nonexistent.
(4) A model of antonym learning is proposed that assigns a prepotent role to the second-to-emerge term in a contrastive pair.
(5) The article also attempts to categorize several examples of confusion suggestions by seven linguistic characteristics: (1) antonyms, (2) homonyms, (3) synonyms, (4) elaboration, (5) interruption, (6) echoing, and (7) uncommon words.
(6) Thirty-six younger and 36 older adults studied antonym pairs, half of which were intact and half of which were missing two adjacent interior letters requiring active encoding (generation) to complete the word.
(7) Hebrew-speaking subjects were presented with 42 pairs of Chinese characters designating antonymic concepts and were required to match them with their corresponding Hebrew words.
(8) The groups of words were arranged such that potential pairings reflected shared denotative (e.g., linked by being antonyms) or shared connotative meaning (e.g., linked at a metaphorical level).
(9) In further experiments, it is shown that primes in sentence contexts can produce facilitation of antonyms if they are strongly associated, or in the absence of association if the target must be named.
(10) Subjects described themselves, using an alphabetically ordered list of 191 trait adjectives, which included sets of synonyms and antonyms, half of each type more difficult than the other half.
(11) Each BS and BS' form contains 28 pairs of antonymic everyday adjectives, whose French translation has been checked by back-translation.
(12) The right shift was pronounced with the reading, orthographic error detection, and antonym conditions.
(13) When instead the target is an antonym (again of low association strength), there is no priming effect; lexical decision is facilitated only when the prime word is presented in isolation.
(14) Spelling by choosing the appropriate letters with his left hand, he could process nouns, verbs, rhymes, antonyms, and superordinate concepts.
(15) Might I propose an antonym: atheophobia, a term for those who fear ideas based upon reason and rationality?
(16) Nina Power : Being misogynist, acting sexist In a moment of idle curiosity a good few years ago, I wondered whether there was an antonym for misogyny.
(17) They are about “vocabulary” (synonyms and antonyms).
(18) In the word-antonym (W-A) and the word-nonantonym (W-NA) conditions, both S1 and S2 were words.
(19) The subjects' task was to think of the antonym to S1 and respond as fast as possible after the presentation of S2 by pressing a "YES" button if S2 was an antonym to S1 (in the W-A trials), or a "NO" button if S2 was not an antonym to S1 (in the W-NA trials).
(20) Although the provision of definitions served to increase consistency (especially for the difficult antonyms), it did not decrease the range of consistency values across either synonym or antonym pairs.