What's the difference between ammunition and arming?

Ammunition


Definition:

  • (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.

Arming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arm
  • (n.) The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
  • (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.
  • (n.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (4) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
  • (5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
  • (6) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (7) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
  • (8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (9) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
  • (10) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
  • (11) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
  • (12) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (13) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (14) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (15) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (16) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
  • (17) The increase in the mean resting ankle-arm index 1 year after conventional angioplasty (0.26) was greater than that after laser angioplasty (0.12).
  • (18) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
  • (19) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (20) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.