(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.
Powder
Definition:
(n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
(n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
(v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
(v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(2) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(3) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(4) High intensity ultrasound also enhances the heterogeneous catalysis of alkene hydrogenation by Ni powders.
(5) Rat heart acid acetone powder was subjected to ion exchange chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(6) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(7) Eight patients were seen within 15 minutes of intranasal self-administration of large amounts of pure D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) tartrate powder.
(8) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(9) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(10) Plasma cholesterol concentrations in F1b-generation rats were elevated, but cocoa powder did not affect this parameter consistently across multiple generations.
(11) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(12) Physical and technological parameters of carfecillin powder and carfecillin with auxiliary substances in the form of the powder mixture and granulate were studied comparatively.
(13) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(14) A suspension of 0.6 mg polyvinyl alcohol foam powder per milliliter of normal saline was found to be optimum.
(15) The allogenic implantation of demineralized bone powder induces the formation of new bone tissue or osteoneogenesis.
(16) The ICSAs were significantly absorbed with mouse islet cells but hardly absorbed with spleen cells or liver powder.
(17) Thus, with elution by either ATP or pyrophosphate, actin has been purified in one step from extracts of acetone-dried muscle powder.
(18) An analysis of variance of saliva levels and urinary excretion as well as an analysis of variance of peak concentration and the area under the curve from 0 to 24 hr for the saliva levels showed no significant difference between the powder and products, but a significant difference between subjects.
(19) In contact toxicity tests with water dispersible powder deposits on plywood, propoxur was highly active initially but lost its effectiveness after only a few weeks, whereas tetrachlorvinphos was less active initially but more persistent.
(20) Completely demineralized root powder was subjected to solutions of varying pH and ionic strength: (a) 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0, (b) 0.1 M acetic acid + 0.15 M KCl, pH 4.0, (c) 0.1 M Hepes, pH 7.0 or to (d) 0.1 M Hepes + 0.15 M KCl, pH 7.0 at 37 degrees C. The surfaces of intact root specimens were exposed to 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0 (which resulted in erosive lesions) or to 0.1 M lactic acid, 0.2 mM methane hydroxy diphosphonate, pH 5.0 (which produced subsurface lesions) at 37 degrees C. After incubation, the extracts were analysed for soluble collagen and the insoluble matrices were treated with trypsin at 15 degrees C to determine the denatured collagen.